Background
Marjorie Strider was born on January 26, 1931 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, United States.
painter performance artist sculptor
Marjorie Strider was born on January 26, 1931 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, United States.
Marjorie Strider studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute before moving to New York City in the early 1960s.
Strider's three-dimensional paintings of beach girls with "built out" curves were prominently featured in the Pace Gallery's 1964 "International Girlie Show". Her comically pornographic Woman with Radish was made into the banner image for the show, one of the first successful exhibitions of the then-new gallery. Her bold figural work from this era aimed to subvert sexist images of women in popular culture by turning objectified female bodies into menacing forms that literally got "in your face". Strider had two subsequent solo exhibitions at the Pace Gallery in 1965 and 1966 where she continued to show her voluminous paintings of bikini-clad girls as well as 3-D renderings of vegetables, fruits, flowers, clouds and other natural phenomena.
In 1969 she organized with Hannah Weiner and John Perreault the first Street Work, an informal public art event. Strider's contribution was thirty empty picture frames which she hung in random locations in Midtown Manhattan in the hopes of getting pedestrians to look at their environment differently.
From 1982 to 1985, a retrospective of her work toured museums and universities across the United States. Venues included: SculptureCenter, New York; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson; and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. In the 1990s, she began to make paintings with tactile surfaces that were more Abstract Expressionist than Pop. In 2009 she revisited her original girlie theme, painting new examples which she exhibited at the Bridge Gallery, New York.
Marjorie Strider died at her home on August 27, 2014 in Saugerties, New York, United States.
Bikini Triptych
My Sister
My Jeans
Itty-Bitty Bikini
Plaster of Paris Bag
White on Green
White Lines
Big Bite
Ooze
We Mourn, We Weep, We Love Again
Come Hither
Come On
Rosemarie's Bag
Painted Collage
Smiling Blonde
In the Swim
Monokini
Plaster Bag II
Invitation
Lilli Marlene
Girl with Rose
Splashed
Sliced Tomatoes
Girl with Radish
Girl with Pearl
Red Towel
Woman with Parted Lips
Triptych II (Beach Girl)
Green Triptych
Nestle's Box
Pitcher Plant
Swirling
Eyeful
Veronica
Descending
Strider became a core member of the 1960s avant-garde movement.
Strider married Michael Kirby, a contemporary artist and writer.