Mystery shrouds the American avant-garde artist Lee Lozano (1930-1999), and yet at the same time she is one of the least-known great artists of the New York art scene of the sixties and early seventies. Working during the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art,Minimalism and Conceptual Art, Lozano created a radical,frequently obscene, and extremely provocative body of work in a male-dominated art world. Her brief career ended in the early seventies when she withdrew from the New York art scene, a move she presented in her Dropout Piece.
This publication undertakes a new presentation of Lozano's multifaceted oeuvre, ranging as it does from surreal pictorial worlds and large-format minimalist paintings to conceptual works from the late sixties and early seventies.