On This Spot Newsletter October 2025

On This Spot tells the stories of a diverse group of women artists through short-form documentaries. Join us as we put women artists on the map.

Video Spotlight – Lynne Drexler

Lynne Mapp Drexler, 1987 Photo: Linda Kleeberg. © Estate of Lynne Mapp Drexler. Courtesy Berry Campbell, New York.

American Abstract Artist, Painter and Photographer.



In the late 1950s, Lynne Mapp Drexler was counted among an important group of women artists whose figural and landscape works were often overlooked during the heyday of post-abstract expressionist modernism – artists such as Jane Freilicher, Lois Dodd, and Jane Wilson.

What's Happening

Events and exhibitions related to Spot artists

Lynne Drexler, MULTIPILE MOONS [SIC], 1973 Oil on linen 45 3/4 x 53 1/4 inches 116.2 x 135.3 cm DREX-00133 Copyright The Artist

LYNNE DREXLER: A PAINTED ARIA

Through 15 November 2025

Berry Campbell Gallery

524 W 26th Street, New York, NY 10001

This exhibition celebrates one of the most impassioned periods in Drexler’s career, when her lifelong devotion to music became inseparable from her art.

Spot Reads

Further reading on Spot artists

Women of Abstract Expressionism

This groundbreaking book reveals the richness of the careers of these important women artists and offers keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole. Yale University Press 2016 (Joan Marter, Gwen F. Chanzit, Robert Hobbs, Ellen G. Landau, Susan Landauer, Irving Sandler)

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