Frith Street Gallery

• Polly Apfelbaum's Split Spills Across Floor at KC's Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

  Published in Artdaily.org, 2 March, 2009

  By “blotting” the fabric, Apfelbaum creates organic, rather than gestural, fields and patterns of pure color. Reminiscent of stained canvases by many artists associated with Color Field painting, such as Dan Christensen, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kenneth Noland, Apfelbaum’s dyed fabrics often are installed on the wall, stacked neatly, or sprawled across the floor, and allude not only to painting and sculpture, but also to a myriad of categories in between: drawing, collage, tapestries, bed sheets, and clothing. 

  http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29181

• Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week ~ Laura McLean-Ferris

  Published in guardian.co.uk, 13 February 2009

  Glitter and faded glamour appear in Polly Apfelbaum’s new floor-based installation Anything Can Happen in a Horse Race at Milton Keynes Gallery. Apfelbaum has used sequinned material, which she describes as “cheap magic”, to create three collage installations in separate rooms, each of which is named after an American gambling city – Reno, Las Vegas and Atlantic City. The artist describes this atmospheric floor poetry as “fallen paintings” that draw on unconscious, experimental forms of abstraction from the 20th century such as dadaism and surrealism. The colours and shapes attempt to capture the mood of these places - Atlantic City is black and cold, while Reno is the most faded. “Think of a sequinned showgirl on the morning after”, says Apfelbaum.

• Focusing on life's ragged edges, Around the Galleries ~ David Pagel

  Published in The Los Angeles Times, 19 January 2007

  (Polly Apfelbaum’s) rapidly scrawled drawings on brightly colored swathes of velvet make a place for messiness in an over-tidy world of over-designed preciousness. They turn the whiplash abandon of making a mess into an ethos for life lived in the moment, with no holding back and everything laid on the line.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/19/entertainment/et-galleries19

• Polly Apfelbaum ~ Jan Avgikos

  Published in Artforum, March 2006

  Trends in contemporary art come and go with brisk regularity, yet pushing the boundaries between painting and sculpture is a perennial fascination. Polly Apfelbaum surfs this never-breaking wave with consummate skill, making “bi-formalism” a leitmotif of her floor-bound fabric installations, which have sometimes been referred to as “fallen paintings”.

  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_7_44/ai_n26804462

• Polly Apfelbaum ~ Hilarie M Sheets

  Published in Artnews, March 2006 ( p 131 )

• Polly Apfelbaum: Cartoon Garden ~ Ken Johnson

  Published in The New York Times, 2 December 2005 ( p 29 )

• Abstract Generation ~ Faye Hirsch

  Published in Art in America, October 2005 ( p 122-129 )

• Report from Poland I: Constructing a Biennial ~ Christopher Lyon

  Published in Art in America, April 2005 ( p 55-59 )

• How much Paint Does it Take to Make a Painting ~ Martin Herbert

  Published in Modern Painters, Autumn 2004

  http://www.pollyapfelbaum.com/pdf/article8.pdf

• Apfelbaum Faces Uncertain Times with Beauty and Art ~ Alice Thorson

  Published in Kansas City Star, July 2004

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