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 which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...

. She was born in

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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 census. Mill Valley is located on the western and ...

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Life and work

Etta Deikman studied with both

Hans Hoffman Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...

and Willem de Kooning. 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. 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 Arthur J. Deikman (September 27, 1929 – September 2, 2013) was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the editorial board of the ''Journal of Humanistic Psychology'' and Human Givens. ...

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) People from Mill Valley, California 21st-century American women