Shapinsky is an American abstract expressionist artist.

(1925 Brooklyn/New York - 2004 Rockville/Maryland) Untitled. The artist belongs to a group of American painters from the Abstract Expressionist movement. Shapinsky, a contemporary of Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, studied at the art school "The Subjects of the Artist," founded by Motherwell and Rothko in 1948/49 in New York. In 1950, Shapinsky's works were included in the New Talent exhibition at the Kootz Gallery, organized by Motherwell. Despite a promising start, Shapinsky did not achieve success for decades and painted in the shadows of his small Manhattan apartment. There, he could only work on small-scale paper canvases, in contrast to the large paintings that became synonymous with Abstract Expressionism. Only a chance discovery by professor of Indian origin Akumal Ramachander and his dedicated initiatives allowed Shapinsky to have his first major retrospective exhibition in 1985 at the prestigious Mayor Gallery in London, earning later recognition, with the Tate Gallery even acquiring one of his paintings as the first museum to do so. Oil on paper, laid on canvas. Signed. Dimensions: 29 cm x 30.5 cm. Unframed.