The Quiet Power of Marisol’s Work Is Highlighted in a Traveling Retrospective

How does an artist go from being a smash hit to falling through the cracks of art history? Beginning in 1957 and through the 1960s, the artist Marisol (1930–2016) was the toast of the New York art scene, her figurative sculptures of roughly hewn wood and found objects admired by artists, critics, and the public alike. Her work was included in the pivotal “Art of Assemblage” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961, and she represented Venezuela at the 1968 Venice Biennale