About

Rachel Friedberg was an American abstract expressionist artist, born in Brooklyn in 1929. Although she received no formal education in art, her insatiable passion for it made her a fixture in the New York art world. From the 1980s on, she mounted numerous well-reviewed solo exhibitions throughout her long career. She continued to create new work until the end of her life.

Friedberg’s work of the past six decades maps the trajectory of a life deeply lived. In the cloistered spaces of her early assemblages, in the interstices of her photocollages, and in the hushed silence of her encaustic paintings, Friedberg has embedded her jubilant and painful history as a woman, a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother. At once deeply personal and inscrutable, her visual poetry speaks to the dreams, promises, and psychic isolation that form the core of our shared humanity.