Arapoff's landscapes and still lifes pulsate with vitality.
This painting depicts the rural New York carriage house where Arapoff painted many of her 1980s works, and it illustrates how this environment inspired her 1980s style, which brims with life and movement.
You can see Arapoff's landscapes in conversation with her abstract works; indeed, forms in this landscape break into abstraction.
Meanwhile, Arapoff painted a series of "still lifes" that were anything but "still" -- as exemplified in this exuberant depiction of a bunch of beets. Note how she rendered the beets themselves in green (the color opposite of their actual color) and placed them against a background of their own red.
By the 1990s, Arapoff's landscapes had become more serene. But her use of color still transformed the scene, as here, where the evening light bathes the road in yellow.
Likewise, in the early 2000s her still lifes became more demure, while maintaining a painterly and tactile quality.
Arapoff's 2012 stroke brought with it a loss of dexterity, but in no way diminished her love of flowers, which she continued to paint frequently in her last decade of life.
