The Dwarves without Snow White is Polly Apfelbaum’s first velvet piece, made the same year she began

The Dwarves without Snow White is Polly Apfelbaum’s first velvet piece, made the same year she began directly pouring paint onto her works. The artist considers velvet “the perfect modern material” for its simultaneous elegance and accessibility, folding it atop garment boxes fashioned into pedestals, a down-to-earth translation of fine-art presentation modes. Since the 1970s, women artists have often engaged horizontal forms for their artworks, a deliberate departure from traditional—vertical, phallic—conventions of monumental art.The title refers to the moralizing fairy tale of goodness and pureness involving the protagonist Snow White, an evil queen, and seven dwarves. Here, Apfelbaum represents the stereotypically feminine protagonist Snow White among the more colorful, individualized personalities of the male dwarves, referenced by the eight down-to-earth velvet objects.  See The Dwarves without Snow White on view in Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection through January 3, 2021.Posted by Carmen HermoPolly Apfelbaum (born Abington Township, Pennsylvania,1956). The Dwarves without Snow White, 1992. 8 boxes and lids, stretched crushed velvet, dye. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of the Contemporary Art Council, 1992.113.1a–c–.8a–c. © Polly Apfelbaum -- source link

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