Voloshyn Gallery is delighted to present works by Janet Sobel at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025!
Janet Sobel was born in the Ukraine and her work was championed by surrealists André Breton and Max Ernst, as well as by philosopher John Dewey and gallerist Sidney Janis. In time, she became a powerful presence in the New York art world. Peggy Guggenheim featured her work in the exhibition The Women in 1945 and gave her a solo show the following year, where critic Clement Greenberg and Jackson Pollock first saw her work. Greenberg acknowledges Pollock’s artistic debt to Sobel. She also evolved a drip technique thought to have inspired Pollock. Somewhat reminiscent of the paintings of Marc Chagal, but “ sturdier and less sentimental,” according to critic Edward M. Gómez, her representational paintings feature a blend of primitivist figuration, floral motifs and a brilliant sense of color. Her work is included in, among others, the collections of the American Folk Art Museum (New York), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Wash D.C.), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Sobel’s was most recently exhibited in “Women in Abstraction” at the Centre Pompidou (2021), “Outliers and American Vanguard Art” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2018), and in “Abstract Expressionism” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016).