Ida Applebroog: City & Country
Artist Ida Applebroog discusses the differences between living and making work in New York City versus her home in Upstate New York.
Credits
Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Ida Applebroog
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Ida Applebroog has been making pointed social commentary in the form of beguiling comic-like images for nearly half a century. Anonymous “everyman” figures, anthropomorphized animals, and half-human/half-creature characters are featured players in the uncanny theater of her work. Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame-by-frame logic of comic book and film narrative into three-dimensional environments. Strong themes in her work include gender and sexual identity, power struggles both political and personal, and the pernicious role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence.
Power, Feminism, and Art
Ida Applebroog shares her experiences starting out as an artist in the 1970s and the ramifications of power and tokenism in art.
“I’m a New Yorker, and that part I take with me wherever I go.”
Ida Applebroog
New York City
Process and Technology
Artist Ida Applebroog discusses her Photogenetics series—works created through a combination of photography, sculpture, painting, and digital editing.
