Renowned critic
and art historian Irving Sandler interviews artist Marylyn Dintenfass on the genesis, evolution and transformational impact of
Parallel Park,
on the one-year anniversary
of this notable public art installation. At 30,000 square feet, it is
one of the largest recent permanent installations in the United States.
Sandler will explore with Dintenfass how
Parallel Park
metaphorically and viscerally expresses the artist’s life-long love
affair with the culturally iconic automobile, focusing on the complex
intersection of art, architecture, design, sculpture,
painting and print-making in her work.
Irving
Sandler is among the pre-eminent critics and art historians of our
time, noted for his interactions and cogent objective writings on the
great figures of Abstract Expressionism. His Directorship of Tanager
Gallery, his participation in “The Club,” in discussions
at the Cedar Tavern and his role as a founder of Artist’s Space are
legendary, as are his brilliant lectures and books, and his probing and
famous interviews of the likes of Robert Motherwell and Tom Wesselmann.
Marylyn
Dintenfass is noted for employing a vast array of conceptual and
technical tools and materials to create original imagery. Her work is
found in public, corporate and private collections worldwide and in
leading institutions including The Metropolitan Museum
of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Dintenfass has twice been a MacDowell
Fellow and has received an Individual Artist Grant from the New York
Foundation for the Arts and two project grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michigan’s Flint Institute of
Arts recently selected Dintenfass for their 2011-commissioned print in
conjunction with the exhibition
Marylyn Dintenfass: Auto Biography and Other Anecdotes opening December 10, 2011. Dintenfass is represented by Babcock Galleries in New York City.
