Official website of the Belgian artist Evelyne Axell (1935 - 1972)
With this new acquisition, the first by a major American museum thanks to a generous donation by Steven and Alexandra Cohen, the work of Belgian artist Evelyne Axell is now permanently housed in some of the world’s leading modern art Read More …
Here Are 5 Women Artists Who Dominated Berlin Gallery Weekend, Despite Evidence of German Gender Bias Sculptor Senga Nengundi and pop painter Evelyne Axell were among those getting the spotlight. Kate Brown, May 3, 2018 At Gallery Weekend this year, Read More …
11 Female Artists Who Left Their Mark on Pop Art Artsy Editorial By Rachel Lebowitz Dec 2nd, 2016 From its inception in the early 1960s, Pop Art was a boys’ club. Huge names like Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann Read More …
Interview with curators Jessica Morgan and Flavia Frigeri about women in Pop Art and Evelyne Axell. Watch the video or read the interview below. Flavia Frigeri: The exhibition is looking at Pop Art from the 1960’s and it’s Read More …
Article by Camille Erickson in Walkerart Blog. Set to return to Minneapolis at Rock the Garden this summer, the Brooklyn-based indie-pop band Lucius will no doubt bring a fresh twist to their debut album Wildewoman. Released in 2013, the record Read More …
When Pop Art of the Sixties meets 21rst Century Pop Music. US Band Lucius features « Ice Cream 1 » for first album cover “Wildewoman”. Exactly 50 years after it was created the iconic “Ice Cream 1” by Evelyne Axell (1964) makes Read More …
Evelyne Axell at Broadway 1602. As the exhibition “The Great Journey into Space” made clear, the unreservedly erotic art of Belgian painter Evelyne Axell (1935-1972) deserves wider recognition. Spanning the whole nine years of Axell’s output (she died in an Read More …
The great journey into space. Cut short by a fatal car crash in 1972, Evelyne Axell’s career burned fast and bright. At the age of twenty-eight, the Belgian artist abandoned a promising career in acting and took up painting, enlisting Read More …
The Rediscovery of A Forgotten Pop Artist: Evelyne Axell (1935–1972). The Great Journey into Space is the second exhibition of the Belgian Pop artist Evelyne Axell to be seen in New York. Her first New York exhibition, Axell’s Paradise: Last Read More …
Exhibition “La terre est ronde” From April 9 till June 13 2011 Evelyne Axell (1935-1972) was an actress and newsreader, an icon in the French-speaking world; for many, her beauty made her a sex symbol. But in 1963 she Read More …
ArtForum April 2010 So Different, So Appealing Carrie Moyer on the Women of Pop Extract: Among the artists of “Seductive Subversion” was one—the glamorous, witty Axell—who might function as a case study, allowing a closer read of the dynamics that Read More …
The New York Times November 13, 2009 EVELYNE AXELL ‘Axell’s Paradise: Last Works (1971-72) Before She Vanished’ By Ken Johnson. No longer content to be objects of the lubricious male gaze, a few brave women took the representation of sexuality Read More …
The Brooklyn Rail November, 2009 Axell’s Paradise by John Yau For those who are willing to go to a slightly out-of-the-way, risk-taking gallery, located at 1182 Broadway between 28th and 29th Street, now would be a good time to hightail Read More …
The New Yorker October 20, 2009 EVELYNE AXELL The presence of the Belgian painter Evelyne Axell (1935-72) on the Brussels art scene was likened by the critic Pierre Restany to a “sexual revolution in art.” There’s ample evidence here, in Read More …