Sonya Rapoport: Yes or No?

By Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova, 2016

Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015) was a Berkeley-based conceptual artist whose career consistently defied stereotypes and expectations. Yes or No? (2014-15) is an autobiographical work created in the last year of the Rapoport's life. It is a series of twelve seductively complex collages, based on pages of New York Times, that convey the parting observations of an artist who kept ahead of her time for over six decades. Art historians Alla Efimova and Terri Cohn decipher and interpret this tour de force of visual philosophy to make it accessible to Rapoport's viewers and readers.