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Jeanne Trippier

I’ve been reading Line Let Loose and Jeanne gets a mention. Daughter of a wine merchant, Tripier Jeanne spent her childhood with her grandmother in the countryside. As an adult, she lived in Montmartre with her son Gustav, whose father was American. Spiritualism entered her life when she was fifty-eight. It was during this period that she started to experience mental distress. Committed in 1934 for “chronic psychosis, logorrhea and megalomania,” Jeanne Tripier developed, during the ten years of her hospitalization, a vision of the world that she transcribed in her Messages relating her interplanetary travel, or Missions on Earth. “Medium of first necessity, holder of the laws of the planet, and the reincarnation of Joan of Arc,” she created drawings in ink, combined with hair dye, nail polish or pharmaceuticals but also embroideries, her needle constituting a formidable weapon. She uttered prophesies, triggered wars, sometimes using secret codes she called “the spherical language.”

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Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Curated by Kathleen Reinhardt and first shown at the Albertinum Museum in Dresden, For Ruth, The Sky in Los Angeles: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz is a living homage to the history of Mail Art and visual poetry and a recognition of their ongoing resonance.

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Sara Flores

Looking closely at Sara Flores’s paintings, one can see that in the perfectly symmetrical patterns that extend on the canvas there is a digital infinity that abounds. Through the simplicity of linear geometric forms, Flores’s work echoes the profusion and endlessness of nature: fractal-like shapes multiply and spill over the canvas as if to reveal the imperceptible fabric of the world.

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Jacqueline Humphries

After a 2005 fire in her studio, Humphries produced the first of her scintillating “black light” paintings, which radiate wild, ghostly neon colors in dark rooms under ultraviolet light—not a technique that one sees contemporary artists using very often. “Fluorescent colors are very powerful, yet they were so bounded by these typical associations—African princess sex goddess, marijuana and magic mushrooms, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors, and that was kind of it,” Humphries said, sitting in a backroom at Greene Naftali, her longtime Chelsea gallery. “I grew up in the ’60s, so I was into it. Why not take something like that and see if you can make serious abstraction with it?” More

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Jeanne Reynal

Hyperallergic notes that Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West uncovers the little-known stories of professional and creative gains in the region, and especially in the Texas Panhandle. Jeanne (who is no longer with us and was unfamiliar to me prior to this article) features in this story.

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