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Howardena Pindell

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Howardena Doreen Pindell (Born 1943) is active/lives in New York.  Howardena Pindell is known for Abstraction, collage, graphics.

Painter Howardena Pindell, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, had a life and art-altering experience in a 1979 car accident when she suffered severe injuries and temporary loss of memory. Prior to this shattering experience, Pindell had been a figurative artist who had moved into large abstractions, no doubt accelerated by twelve years in the curatorial department of the Museum of Modern Art. Following the accident, she went to Japan in 1980 for seven months immersing herself in the culture there. She also collected postcards depicting familiar places to help her regain her memory. She would later use these and other cards in collaged compositions.

Upon her return to the United States, she began creating art with intense sociological content based on her life experience and black heritage. Becoming, in essence, a performance artist, Pindell created a video in 1980, "Free, White and 21," where she played both a black and a white persona hurling racial epithets at each o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5136 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Howardena Pindell

   Publications  Book References:  27
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Howardena Pindell
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions September 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews September 2004 Editors, Artforum Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
ARTnews Underrated/Overrated December 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Big Name Artists March 1997 Berger, Laurel Yes
27 Book References for Howardena Pindell
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Dantzic, Cynthia Maris 100 New York Painters 224 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Robinson, Jontyle Theresa Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women 176 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Ed: Biography Resource Center Howardena Pindell, Paintings and Drawings: A Retrospective Exhibit
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1990 Lippard, Lucy R Mixed Blessings New Art in a Multicultural America 279 Yes
1989 McElroy, Guy C (others) African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection 125 Yes
1988 Rosen, Randy, et al Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 300 Yes
1987 Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women 163 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1984 Robins, Corrine The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981 246 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1979 Shoemaker, Innis H (intro) Drawings about Drawing Today
(Exhibition catalog)		 85 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1971 Doty, Robert Contemporary Black Artists in America (Whitney Museum of American Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
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