Black wall

Sarah Grilo Argentinian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 919

In Argentina, Grilo was part of the Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina–a group of artists committed to a highly structured, geometric style of painting. A Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 enabled Grilo’s move to New York, where she lived until 1970, and where her work notably shifted. Deeply invigorated by the city, Grilo began to make more complex abstractions that used the immediacy of New York as inspiration and visual source material, fusing found imagery from the street, exuberant mark-making, and language into her compositions.

Black wall, Sarah Grilo (Argentinian, Buenos Aires 1917–2007 Madrid, Spain), Oil on canvas

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