The Estate of Martha Alf

 
 

It is about the perfection of the banal and the seriousness of the ridiculous.

—Martha Alf

Selected Works

Exhibitions

Alf Exhibition
Martha Alf, Opposites and Contradictions
Martha Alf, Opposites and Contradictions

Selected Press

PRESS
Martha Alf - Artforum
Martha Alf - Artforum

In 1972, a year before Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro opened Womanhouse—a watershed feminist Gesamtkunstwerk that was installed inside a derelict Hollywood mansion—Martha Alf (1930–2019), a newly minted MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, had begun work on her so-called cylinder paintings, the subjects of which were toilet-paper rolls.

Books

Martha Alf Martha Alf
Martha Alf
$29.99

Published on the occasion of Martha Alf “Opposities and Contradictions” at Michael Kohn Gallery.
Softcover 106 pages
Published by Michael Kohn Gallery

 

About the Artist

Born 1930, Berkeley, California
Died 2019, Santa Monica, California

EDUCATION

1970 MFA, Painting, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1963 MA, Art, San Diego State University. San Diego, CA
1952 BA, Pyschology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

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