Elaine Reichek

born New York, New York, 1943

BiographyElaine Reichek received her Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn, College and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University where she studied painting with abstract expressionist Ad Reinhardt. She has an international reputation for her conceptual work that combines images, texts, and objects and often addresses feminist concerns. In the 1970s she began to focus on using thread, and processes that involve needle and thread, as the basis for her mixed media artworks and installations.

Reichek’s works are in the collections of a host of prestigious museums among them New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum and many others. Her 40-year exhibition history extends internationally.

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