STUDIO F

Miriam Schapiro

2004

Miriam Schapiro has had a profound impact on the art world. She is recognized internationally as a leader in two art movements: the Feminist Art Movement and the Pattern and Decoration Movement. A mover and shaker in the feminist art movement that erupted in the 1970's, Schapiro developed her own singular style of femmage, collages using materials like lace, doilies, ribbons and floral fabrics in works that celebrate the traditional domestic handiwork of anonymous women. Along with other artists influenced by bold ornamental images, she was also a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 70's, which brought frankly decorative feminist elements into the realm of "high art."

Schapiro is the recipient of four honorary Doctoral Degrees, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Her work has been exhibited in major institutions throughout the world and is in numerous public and private collections. Museum collections include the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum, Wash. DC, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum, NY, the Ludwig Museum, Aachen Germany, and the Australian National Museum, Canberra. Schapiro lives and works in New York.

Schapiro created monoprints in 2004 for STUDIO-f. One of the prints Schapiro created in STUDIO-f Census, became a series and combines digital prints of a variety of images from her doll collection, collage, and screen-printing. These images are arranged in groups in a three-story "house" defined with cord and surrounded by a decorative printed border. The Paper Doll Series are six different characters created from original cutouts assembled and digitally printed then embellished with fabric and screen-printed borders.

Schapiro lives and works in the Hamptons in New York.

Studio F