Rosalyn Drexler, unconsciously painter, threw his own way down at a pop ceremony, died in 98

Rosalyn Drexler, who portrayed Hollywood actors, screen violence and gender subversion in the 1960s, has received wide acclaim in recent years, died at the age of 98. A spokesperson for the Garth Greenan Gallery in New York represented her death but did not confirm her death but did not state the cause.

Today, Drexler is considered one of the leading artists associated with the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, although she has been considered an obscure figure for years. In addition to the colorful paintings she made, she also wrote novels, one of which was her 1972 book. Go to the Blacksmith’s shop– Reposted positive reviews this year. Before becoming an artist, she briefly worked as a professional wrestler.

Her 60s paintings have affinity with the most famous works of the pop era. Like Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, she painted Marilyn Monroe and other actors who often appear in the movies. Like Roy Lichtenstein, she also showed enthusiasm for the bright tones of commercial images and advertising. Like Marisol, she seems to be concerned about how the media encourages violence against women.

Drexler often uses ready-made images, applying its paint directly to her images, and its subject is immediately recognized. But she devalued the pictures when the paintings once accompanied them and surrounded their backgrounds around the fields of light color.

Critic Raphael Rubenstein American Art“She has been drawing the retina over and over again, over and over again, under the reason of the painting – a blue blue ocean of blue, covered with crisp white lines, or wrapped in domestic violence; the same cadmium red red, orange, Crimsons and Crimsons saturated under the angry Gorillas, paired with black stimulation, and paired with ‘skloby’shate’shay’ daily; the suit pointed to the gun and walked on the stairs, and used an abnormal composition strategy to draw our attention to the swelling of these high key colors.”

In the age of production, these paintings were not considered great works. Drexler told Artforum In 2016. “It’s time for abstract expressionism and minimalism; pop music is just starting to lift its huge, glittering head. My work is a secret thing.”

Her paintings are no longer so secret. After the Rose Museum of Art Show, her works have been widely collected among American institutions, the Museum of Modern Art, the AKG Museum of Art in Buffalo and the Whitney Museum, including the acquisition of their first Drexler paintings over the past decade.

Rosalyn Drexler was born in New York in 1937. Her parents were Jewish, both immigrants from Russia, who brought her into performing arts events. But she hardly wants to be an artist. “Even if I was a kid, I always wanted to be a writer.” Brooklyn Railroad.

Nevertheless, she was purchased by her mother for her coloring books, as well as the creation of a friend, who outlined the outlined objects in the pictures she found. Replicas also play an important role in Drexler’s art education.

“We’re poor,” Drexler’s 1971 artist Elaine de Kooning told 1971 Artnews interview. “It was about the Great Depression. We had no art, no books. But a newspaper provided a few minutes, coupons, replicas of famous paintings. My mother sent Turner Seaview, Rembrandt’s self-portraits and William. It was the first great art I’ve ever seen.”

Drexler attended Hunter College, but she stayed there for only one year. She then married Sherman Drexler and moved to Berkeley, California. There, the couple showed their art to each other, Rosalyn Artnet News contour.

They moved back to New York in 1951, and Drexler briefly wrestled under the Mexican Spitfire nickname Rosa Carlo, a name she chose after flipped in her phone book. “I trained my pillows in my hotel room,” she told rail. “Suddenly on the ring, I could have broken my back and I was thrown on the ring. Although it fell correctly, it was great. I learned how to fall. I was the baby’s face because the baby’s face was all the punishment until the big revenge.” (Long time later, Warhol would make screen prints, in which Drexler played her wrestling character.)

Drexler returned to her own sculptures after three months of tour as a wrestler, though she received little recognition for them. The positive remarks of sculptor David Smith kept her moving forward. “He said, ‘Don’t give up on sculpture; I know female sculptors, they stop; don’t stop,” Drexler recalled in 1971. Artnews interview. “I’m a little bit introverted right now because I’m turning to painting and writing.”

She ended up in an outstanding writing career, writing 10 dramas and nine novels. Those dramas and novels are the same paintings as hers: one book centers on a talking dog; the other revolves around a fictional version of Rocky, the titular hero of the sports film franchise. Her writing often has a biographical element. Go to the Blacksmith’s shopHer recently republished 1972 novel is about the New York art world and even involves a woman named Rosa who was moved to a professional wrestler.

But unlike many of the beloved painters of the 1960s, Drexler’s artistic opportunities remain limited. She never runs a studio and works outside the art world. she Artnet Profiles are listed as masseurs and house cleaners, waitresses and professors.

As pop music history has been re-evaluated, so has Drexler’s work. She appeared in the 2015 Tate Modern exhibition “The World over Pop”, which greatly expanded the classics of the movement. Earlier this summer New York Times Named Re-version Go to the Blacksmith’s shop By far, one of the best books of 2025.

During the interview, Drexler seemed surprised by the compliments she received later in her career. “I know it’s all successful, but when the later stages of life come, people you’ll miss may share it with.” Artnet. “It’s hard to believe that time really passes.”