Presented by Anita Shapolsky Gallery

Buffie Johnson was born in New York City and studied art in Paris as well in the Art Students League. Her canvases are witness to her creative process from the world’s largest abstract mural in the Astor Theatre in the ’50s, to her gestural paintings of the ’60s, her monumental plant images of the ’70s, and then her numbering series of the 90’s that explores the power that arises from zero. Always striving to represent divine female power even when met with resistance and discouragement, Buffie embodies that very power. She was included in the 1943 Peggy Guggenheim show at the This Century Gallery.