It’s easy to be absorbed in our own homebred art stars – Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Terence Koh – but a worldly vision of art makes for a better rounded art education. Italian abstract artist Carla Accardi has a presence so huge that that New York Times critic Roberta Smith called her an “art star on the order of Agnes Martin in Italy.” Never mind that we’re not talking about present day here; Carla was one of the few female artists of the 1950s to show alongside notable male Italian painters. But as with her show at NYC’s Haunch of Venison attests, some artists get the last laugh.

Carla Accardi Viola d'Egitto

Haunch of Venison
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
(212) 259-0000
From May 10 to June 26, 2010