Rosemarie Trockel’s conceptual practice is as thematically expansive as it is materially diverse, though the artist is best known for her machine-knitted paintings. They incorporate conventional textile patterns (houndstooth and checks), political symbols (the hammer and sickle), and brand logos (the Playboy bunny). Throughout her decades-long career, Trockel has also created sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and drawings, often with an edge of ironic social critique. Evoking the aesthetics of Pop art, Minimalism, and Op art, her work is concerned with gendered power structures, the commodification of art, and the subjectivity of visual representation. Artsy
