Carrie Moyer is a contemporary American painter known for her lush abstractions. Moyer’s abstract imagery is related to both feminist activism and the art historical precedents of Georgia O’Keefe and Joan Miró, among others. “In my work, there’s a playful relationship to some of the most traditional and clichéd imagery of painting, such as landscape, flowers and female figures,” she has explained. “It sneaks in there in humorous ways. When it shows up in the work, I embrace it.” Born in 1960 in Detroit, MI, she received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1985. During the 1990s, Moyer co-founded the public art project Dyke Action Machine (DAM!), which sought to disrupt and investigate contemporary...