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Helen Frankenthaler

Explore theory and methods used by Helen Frankenthaler in this workshop of spontaneous gesture, color theory, and 'soak-stain' painting.

Date: Saturday June 13th, 2026
Time: 11:00-1:00pm
Location: 12 St. Mark's Place, East Village
Price: $50 (Early Bird 50% off)

1. Learn

Helen Frankenthaler’s career, artworks, and soak-stain technique.
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2. Abstract

Form ideas, shapes, and colors through memory abstraction exercises.

3. Draw

Create a composition using automatic gesturing methods.
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4. Paint

Put your abstraction on canvas using Frankenthaler's "soak-stain" technique.

5. Critique

Share, discuss, and interpret artwork.
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6. Experience

View Helen Frankenthaler's exhibition at Gagosian Gallery and experience New York's art scene.
Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance (April 30th-July 2nd)

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Who is Helen Frankenthaler?

Helen Frankenthaler

(1928-2011)

First known work

Still Life, 1948
Woman, 1950
 21st Street Studio,1950
 Circus Landscape, 1951
Mountains and Sea, 1952
Helen meets Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner through art critic Clement Greenberg.
"It was all there. I wanted to live in this land. I had to live there and master the language."
-Helen Frankenthaler
Shatter, 1953
Sunspot, 1954
Breakthrough, 1956
Towards a New Climate, 1957
French Horizon, 1958
Helen marries fellow painter Robert Motherwell. Many of her works were created at their summer retreat in Provincetown, MA.
"My work is full of climates. And the feeling of an order that is associated more with nature."
-Helen Frankenthaler
The Red Sea, 1959
Swan Lake, 1961
Beach Scene, 1961
The Bay, 1963
Orange Mood, 1964
Small's Paradise, 1964
  • Represents the United States at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966. (with Lichtenstein, Kelly, and Olitski)
Flood, 1967
Nature Abhors a Vacuum 1967
"De Fem" Drawings
Moontide, 1968
"De Fem" Drawings
Seseme, 1970
"De Fem" Drawings
Ocean Drive West #1, 1974
"De Fem" Drawings
A Green Thought in a Green Shade, 1981
Into October, 1983
Arctic Thaw, 1990
No. 4, Youth
Hot Ice, 1990
No. 6, Adulthood
Sister Sky, 1991
No. 7, Adulthood
Fantasy Garden, 1992
No. 7, Adulthood
Borrowed Dream, 1992
No. 7, Adulthood
The Other Side, 2002
No. 8, Adulthood
Cloud Burst, 2002
No. 9, Old Age
Kiss, 2003
No. 7, Adulthood
Weeping Crabapple, 2009

Last known work

No. 7, Adulthood

Swan Lake, 1961

Artwork Spotlight

Swan Lake is from a breakthrough period when she refined the soak-stain technique that influenced Color Field painting.  Clement Greenberg described this shift as moving away from gesture toward “a more open, optical clarity,” where the emphasis is on color relationships rather than brushwork.

Special Thanks: The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Gagosian Gallery, The Met, SmartHistory, Recording Artists.

"De Fem" Drawings

Workshops

Hilma af Klint "The Five"

Explore and exercise automatism and spiritual abstraction methods of Hilma af Klint's "The Five"
Tompkins Square Park, East Village
8:30-10pm, Friday June 5th, 2026

Helen Frankenthaler

Explore landscape abstraction theory and "soak-stain" technique of Helen Frankenthaler.

12 St. Mark's Place, East Village
11:00-1:00pm, June 13th, 2026

Jackson Pollock

Explore and exercise abstraction theory and methods of Jackson Pollock.
12 St. Mark's Place, East Village
Coming soon

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