1. Eleanore Mikus was an American artist who began painting in the late 1950s in the Abstract Expressionist mode.
18 Facts About Eleanore Mikus
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Eleanore Mikus was drawn to art at an early age winning an art prize in kindergarten and attending art classes at the School of Arts and Crafts in Detroit while in high school.
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Eleanore Mikus returned to the United States in 1953 and completed her undergraduate degree in art and art history at the University of Denver in 1957.
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Eleanore Mikus began teaching at Cooper Union in New York in 1971.
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Eleanore Mikus taught at Cornell University until she retired in 1994.
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Eleanore Mikus had her first solo exhibition at the Pietrantonia Gallery in New York in 1960.
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Eleanore Mikus showed paintings of geometric shapes on sectional canvases to allow the real lines of the joined canvases to interact with the painted shapes on the surfaces.
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In 1964, Eleanore Mikus showed with Pace Gallery in New York City.
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Eleanore Mikus's work was gaining recognition and Dorothy Miller, well-known curator, chose a white Tablet painting for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as a gift from Louise Nevelson.
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Ivan Karp from OK Harris Gallery showed her work and Eleanore Mikus had four solo shows, in 1971,72,73, and 74.
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Eleanore Mikus respected the work of Louise Nevelson, Lucia Fontana, Ad Reinhardt, and Piero Manzoni.
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Eleanore Mikus's art is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art of New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.
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Eleanore Mikus had a solo exhibition of her artwork at Levy Gorvy Gallery, New York during 2021.
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Eleanore Mikus's art was featured at the Frieze New York Spotlight in May 2019.
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Eleanore Mikus was in a group show in 2016 at the David Zwirner Gallery.
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In 2010, Eleanore Mikus had a group show at OK Harris Gallery in New York City.
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Eleanore Mikus had another group show at the Zentral Bibliotrek of Zurich, Switzerland.
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In 2008 Eleanore Mikus' paperfolds were shown in a solo show at the Marlborough Gallery in New York City.