MILTON RESNICK & PAT PASSLOF: A SELECTION OF WORK

October 31, 2020 - October 23, 2021

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is proud to present Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof: A Selection of Work — a selection of paintings from both Milton Resnick (1927-2004) and Pat Passlof (1928-2011) ranging in date from 1949-1983, on view October 31, 2020 - October 23, 2021.

Milton Resnick was born in Ukraine in 1917, and immigrated to New York City with his family in 1923. He grew up in the Lower East Side, and entered the American Artists School in 1933. In the 1930s he was on the WPA artist project, and met Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, John Graham and other downtown artists. In 1940 Resnick was drafted and served in the U.S. Army through all of World War II. After returning to New York in September 1945, Resnick immediately began painting abstractions thereby cementing his historical position as a member of the first generation of American Abstract Expressionists. He was a founding member of the Artists’ Club of the 1950s.

Pat Passlof was born in Georgia in 1928 and grew up in New York City. In the summer of 1948, she studied painting with Willem de Kooning at Black Mountain College, and continued to study with him privately after they returned to New York. That fall, De Kooning introduced her to Milton Resnick. She and Resnick began to live together in the mid-1950s and married in 1962. Her work, fully immersed in the Abstract Expressionist ethos, grew progressively lighter and more serendipitous over the years, as did her color sense. From 1984 until her death in 2011, she made both figurative work, often landscapes peopled with centaurs, nymphs and horses, and large abstractions derived from repeated patterns and marks.