The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

First shown in Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, Floor Corner typifies the precise, meditative paintings for which Sylvia Plimack Mangold first became known. Featuring architectural details including mirrors, windows, and floors, as here, the works have been interpreted as reflections on the domestic sphere. At the time, the domestic was often equated with the feminine and, with the dawn of the women’s movement, female oppression. Also included is a more recent work by the artist, The Winter Maple Tree, in which she turns her exacting eye toward landscape.