May Wilson Exhibition

Pavel Zoubok Gallery

[Image: May Wilson "Untitled (Snowflake)" (c. 1960s) collage, 11 x 23 in.]

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Pavel Zoubok Gallery presents an intimate exhibition of “snowflake” collages by May Wilson (1905-1986), an artist who during her heyday of the 1960s and 1970s was often referred to as the “Grandma Moses of the Underground.” These superimpositions of intricately cut paper range from vibrantly patterned all-over abstractions, to playful juxtapositions made from gay physique journals and “girlie” magazines.

A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movements, May Wilson continued a tradition of female self-representation that includes the Countess Castiglione, Claude Cahun, Colette Lumiere, Cindy Sherman and Zanele Muholi. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, and New York University. Her work has been exhibited at Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA; and most recently in the seminal exhibition Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 at the Brooklyn Museum in 2011. She was also the subject of the 1970 documentary Woo Who? May Wilson directed and produced by Amalie R. Rothschild.