Artist: Mary Abbott

Mary Abbott: To Draw Imagination marks the first major survey exhibition addressing the full scope of Mary Abbott’s painterly practice. Spanning 1940 to 2002, the works on view demonstrate Abbott’s immense contributions to Abstract Expressionism, including her bold exploration of color, form, and media, as one of the few women invited to join The Club, which was a group of artists dedicated to shaping Abstract Expressionism. A peer of Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Barnett Newman, Abbott experimented with the conceptual and physical possibilities of her materials—including pastel, charcoal, collage, and oil paint—to express a deeply personal visual language of abstraction informed by the natural world, her travels, and her own lived experience throughout her long career.