Whitney Biennial 2026 | Art & Artists

Carmen de Monteflores’s shaped canvases of the late 1960s combine fields of color with a bold, graphic style. Her process always began with observation—drawings of the landscape, her family, or other figures. This practice gave the lines and edges in her work an organic quality that distanced the work from the more mechanical approach of Pop art from around the same time. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for women in the art world, de Monteflores stopped painting in 1969, received a doctorate in psychology, and wrote five novels. 

De Monteflores’s paintings appear here with sculptures by her daughter, Andrea Fraser.