to the exhibition of course it does on the one hand present kranzler as a pioneer of abstract expressionism but she was also a woman who within the very male dominated world of abstract expressionism absolutely held her own to the difficulties faced by female artists in the 1930 s. is illustrated by the 2 edged compliment paid to her as a student by her teacher hants hoffman is so good would not know it was done by a woman. who was good but not so successful filled with rage and self-doubt she destroyed some works on paper but later successfully incorporated them into colorful montages in the fifty's. shortly before parks death in 1956 she had begun a series of works featuring cubist figurative motives despite her grief she continued with the blacks became black and the reds rich. creative periods were followed by breaks she refused to settle on a signature style in the sixty's she began working with large form. bizarreness and isn't it i'm the guy what i particularly like about these pictures is their energy the colors are unusual due to cross nervous chronic insomnia she worked at night a