User:Kellychen927/Lee Lozano

Notable Works
Lee Lozano's Tool Paintings is a series of paintings of screwdrivers, bolts, wrenches, clamps, and hammers, anthropomorphized so that they appear to be in sexualized motion. She She began painting objects that identified with male power and productivity in 1963.

In 1967 the artist made a list of her titles of paintings called ‘ALL VERBS: REAM, SPIN, VEER, SPAN, CROSS, RAM, PEEL, CHARGE, PITCH, VERGE, SWITCH, SHOOT, SLIDE, JUT, HACK, BREACH, STROKE, STOP’. Her list is in advance of Richard Serra’s ‘Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself’ from 1967–8. The paintings were compositions of edges and spirals in greyscale.

Untitled (General Strike Piece), begun in 1969, in which she cut herself off from the commercial art world; and Boycott Piece, which began in 1971 as a month-long experiment intended to improve communication but became a permanent "boycott" of speaking to or directly interacting with women. She notes that “Dropout Piece is the hardest work I have ever done.”