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Eric Firestone Gallery’s presentation at Frieze Masters is a solo installation of work by pioneer feminist artist Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015). The presentation will span the 1950s through the 1970s, showing work in both her early Abstract Expressionist style as well as monumental “femmage” work, where she fused anonymous craftwork made by women with modernist, geometric painting.

In 1958, Schapiro was the first female artist to have a solo show at André Emmerich Gallery. Her Abstract Expressionist canvases of the 1950s are gestural and painterly yet also rooted in personal experience and her …