While Pollock was busy creating his characteristic panoramic drip paintings, she was focused on producing her kaleidoscopic canvases. She went through these cycles of work and these rhythms, and it was often a very painful process. Throughout her career, Krasner often returned to earlier works. He created a soaring space with ceiling arches, the first ever cantilevered, free-hanging balconies in a church, and mahogany pews with brass-plated doors. After asking around, she found out that he had his studio close to hers and decided on a whim to visit him.
His work blew her mind and she was convinced right away that he would make art history. She fell for his art first and then for the almost shy, slightly rugged man. Pollock came with a lot of baggage, though. He was an alcoholic and mentally unstable — he had been institutionalized for six months shortly before he and Krasner met. She also started to introduce him to the right people and when he got an invite to submit work for the first salon of the newly opened Art of This Century gallery by Peggy Guggenheim the art world started to notice him, too.
Strolling through the almost unadorned white wood doors of the side entrance and through a small hallway the room suddenly opens into the wide nave with crimson walls covered in gold-painted fleurs-des-lys.
Light sifts through the ten colorful, narrative picture windows that are a rather recent addition — the first two designed by the famous Tiffany studio were added from , the rest has been integrated from It is hard to image the fiercely modern Lee Krasner in such an opulent, overtly traditional church. After a vacation in in the Hamptons, Krasner and Pollock decided to leave the city.
In Krasner was finally accorded her rightful place alongside Pollock, Rothko, and the others in the exhibition Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years. The last decade of her life also brought numerous honors, awards, and publications. Many first generation New York abstract expressionist painters developed one signature style that they maintained throughout their careers.
Lee Krasner took a more radical approach, changing her style several times. Krasner had the misfortune of graduating in the midst of the Great Depression. To support herself, she took what work she could find, including modeling and waitressing. Despite her early career challenges, Krasner didn't give up her dream of making it as a full-time artist. In , Krasner was given good reason to believe her dream could become a reality. In , while she was still working for the WPA, Krasner decided to pursue more art training at the 8th Street atelier run by renowned German artist Hans Hoffmann.
Through her exposure to Hoffmann's modernist theories, her formerly naturalist paintings and drawings took on a cubist approach and reached a new level of sophistication. Her involvement in the New York art scene extended to include political causes. To this end, Krasner joined the American Abstract Artists, which afforded her more opportunities to exhibit her work as a burgeoning young modernist painter. Krasner's association with Hoffmann's atelier lasted through In , Krasner became involved with fellow artist Jackson Pollock.
The pair had met once years earlier, but this time around love bloomed between them. The two were married in , after which they moved to East Hampton, Long Island. Krasner became a champion for Pollock's work.
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