Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum is an American artist born in Abington, Pennsylvania in 1955. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Apfelbaum's work is characterized by bright colors, playful forms, and a focus on materials such as felt and velvet. She is known for her large-scale installations that often involve hundreds of intricately cut and arranged pieces of fabric. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. In 2018, a retrospective of her work titled "Polly Apfelbaum: Waiting for the UFOs (a Space Set Between a Landscape and a Bunch of Flowers)" was organized by the ICA Miami and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City and the Phoenix Art Museum.