Corinne Michelle West — Action Painting
Jul 10, 2022
Corinne Michelle West (1908–1991) was an American painter.She was an Abstract Expressionist.. In 1941 she began to use the name Michael, which she used in her regular life as well as her painting.She exhibited in Manhattan’s prestigious Stable Gallery in 1953, and had a solo show in 1957 at the Uptown Gallery in New York City. In 1958 she had a one-woman show at the Domino Gallery in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.She also wrote poems; she wrote a series of 50 poems in the 1940s, including the poem The New Art in 1942. Later in 1968 she created a series of poem-paintings related to the Vietnam war.
