- Shirley Jaffe
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name = Shirley Jaffe
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birthdate = 1923
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field = abstract painter and sculptor
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awards =Shirley Jaffe, abstract painter and
sculptor , was born inNew Jersey , USA, in 1923 and educated atCooper Union inNew York City . She moved toParis in 1949 as a young painter and has carried on her career primarily inFrance , although she returns regularly to the United States where she has exhibited since the early '90s at the Holly Solomon Gallery and in other New York group shows. In Paris she has exhibited at the Galerie Fournier and later began to show her work at the Nathalie Obadia Gallery.Paintings
Shirley Jaffe began as an abstract expressionist but in about 1968 her style changed to the flat, uninflected surfaces and single-colour shapes that she has used ever since. In 1968 a grant year in
Berlin may have reunited her thinking with the European abstraction of Arp,Tauber-Arp, Kandinski and Herbin.Recent work
In 2000 the state government and the City of Perpignan commissioned Jaffe to design the stained glass windows of the chapel. The installation of the completed windows coincided with a retrospective of Jaffe's work at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Céret.
References
Border Crossing: Shirley Jaffe-painting and stained glass, Deborah Rosenthal, Modern Painters, Spring 2000.
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