The Unbreakable Maria Lassnig

Mit Einem Tiger Schlafen (Sleeping with a Tiger), by Maria Lassnig, 1975. Three concurrent exhibitions pay tribute to the Austrian artist whose radical explorations of self defied the strictures of the male-dominated 20th-century art world By Patricia Zohn You might have found her standing or sitting or even stretched out on a canvas on the floor, downloading every bodily sensation, eyes wide shut to capture the evanescent colors inside her eyelids before she began to paint. Through these and other radical methodologies, the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) channeled her perception of a moment and made the invisible visible. Just now, her art is the subject of three concurrent exhibitions: “Flow of Paint = Flow of Life,” at the Hamburger Kunsthalle; “Honey, You’re a Wonderful Model,” at the Des Moines Art Center; and “Maria Lassnig,” at Petzel, in Manhattan. READ ON