Her disquieting, sometimes graphic work explored the female body, female experience and the power structures that govern society.
In 1969, the artist now known as Ida Applebroog was living in San Diego, far from the art scene in her native New York. It was the year she turned 40. She was married with four children and was deeply unfulfilled — “like an empty house,”Fearing that she might turn to suicide, Ms. Applebroog — at the time she went by Ida Horowitz — checked herself into the psychiatric ward at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, where she spent weeks immersed in her sketch pad.
Ms. Applebroog produced the core elements of one of her most noted works shortly after her hospitalization. Day after day, she ensconced herself in her bathroom. With the aid of a mirror, she made more than 150 drawings of her vagina using India ink and crow-quill pen. The drawings were not sexual, she said, but rather an attempt to find pieces of herself that had been “hidden away.
Ms. Applebroog said she did not wish to be known as a political artist — she rejected labels of all kinds — but she frequently engaged with current affairs.after he made international news in 1991 by remaining onstage to perform before Israeli listeners who were forced to don gas masks during an Iraqi Scud missile attack in 1991.Angry Birds of America
Over the objections of her father, she studied graphic design at what was then the New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences. She found work at an advertising agency but was driven out by what she described as flagrant sexual harassment.She later did freelance illustration and design work and worked in the New York Public Library’s art division.
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