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Modernist Maker 021: Marisol

The Folk Pop Artist who Defied Glamour and Critiqued Culture

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Mar 06, 2026
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Continuing with our Pop Art theme, this month’s Modernist Maker is the Venezuelan-American sculptor, Marisol Escobar. Simply known by her first name, Marisol was a superstar of the 1960s before she seemed to fall into relative obscurity. But that isn’t the whole picture. Two recent retrospectives – Marisol: A Retrospective (Buffalo AKG Art Museum, ) and

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