Baby Block Bouquet 1981

Miriam Schapiro made this heart shaped artwork named 'Baby Block Bouquet' with paint and collage. The way she combines these patterns and colors? It feels like a process, you know? An investigation. Up close, you can see how the baby block pattern forms a frame for the florals, and how she used all these different colors to create a kind of organized chaos. I love the black center, it makes the surrounding colors pop even more. It’s like she’s saying that in art, as in life, contrast can be beautiful. The whole piece feels playful, like a child's quilt, but it also has this real depth to it. It reminds me a bit of the work of Yayoi Kusama, with its obsessive patterning and focus on color. But Schapiro's work is all her own, a unique voice in the ongoing conversation of art.