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Ibram Lassaw American (1913-2003) Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Lassaw's parents emigrated to the United States in 1921. He grew up in New York City and studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and at City College. Beginning in 1933, he was amongst the earliest artists to produce abstract sculpture. Lassaw was a founder member of the American Abstract Artists Group, and worked in welded iron, wire and bronze. His sculpture from the 1950s frequently has the appearance of open, grid-like forms, or linear mazes, and his later work, from the 1960s onwards, often has a more naturalistic feel. Lassaw was amongst the group of sculptors, including Herbert Ferber and Theodore Roszak, whose work paralleled the paintings of the Abstract Expressionists. Lasssaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Kootz Gallery, New York in 1951, and exhibited widely throughout his career, including retropsectives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston; Guild Hall Museum, Easthampton, NY; and the Heckscher Museum, NY.

 

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