Dorothy Iannone

Dorothy Iannone (1933-2022) was an American artist, born in Boston, who lived for decades in Berlin. Self-taught as a painter, she made paintings, books, objects, video and sound pieces about erotic love and female sexuality, in a bright, flat style that borrows from Greek vases, Japanese woodcuts and religious imagery. Her work was often censored in the 1960s and 1970s. Iannone met the Swiss artist Dieter Roth in Reykjavík in 1967. They lived together until 1974 and stayed close until his death in 1998, and her book An Icelandic Saga recounts their first meeting.