Etta Deikman is an American artist whose works embrace

abstract art Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a Composition (visual arts), composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non- ...

. She was born in

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * ...

and currently lives and works in

Mill Valley Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and from Napa Valley. The population was 14,231 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Mill Valley is lo ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

Life and work

Etta Deikman studied with both Hans Hoffman and

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning ( , ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married pa ...

. She is a graduate of Black Mountain College, and attended contemporaneously with Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Her career began in the 1950s and she has produced artistic pieces since. She has received a number of grants for her work, including one from the Mann Arts Council for the

San Francisco Foundation San Francisco Foundation is a San Francisco Bay Area philanthropy Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with ...

. Photographs and reviews of her work have appeared in (among numerous others) ''Artweek Magazine'' on several occasions, '' Pacific Sun'' (1/18/95, 6/83, 7/21/78), and earlier in her career in ''

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'' (5/4/61) and ''

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'' (2/1959 and 4/1959). Etta was married to psychiatrist and author Dr. Arthur Deikman until his death in 2013.Staff (October 6, 2013). "Arthur J. Deikman M.D., Death Notice". San Francisco Chronicle SFGate. Jeffrey M. Johnson. Retrieved 2014-01-11

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deikman, Etta American abstract artists Artists from California Artists from New York (state) American women artists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Artists from Mill Valley, California 21st-century American women