Lee Krasner (1908–1984) was a major figure in American Abstract Expressionism, although for much of her life her work was overshadowed by that of her husband, Jackson Pollock. They married in 1945 and moved to Springs, Long Island, where both worked as artists until Pollock's death in 1956.

 

Today, Krasner is recognized in her own right as an important and remarkably inventive artist whose work continually changed rather than settling into a single recognizable style.

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That willingness to change may be one of the most interesting things about her. In the early 1950s, dissatisfied with some of her drawings and paintings, Krasner tore them apart and began reassembling the fragments into collages, describing the process as a kind of "recycling of the self."

But did you know she made mosaics?

 

She creating mosaic tables from old wagon wheels and incorporating pieces of tile, broken glass, shells, jewelry, keys and other found materials. Painting remained at the heart of her practice, but her mosaics and collages reveal the same restless curiosity: an artist willing to dismantle what she had already made and discover what else it might become.