But drawing did create an outlet and conversational platform for the otherwise silent Applebroog. “I would show [the doctor] the drawings I’d made the day before, and we would talk about them ...

One drawing from Ida Applebroog, “Mercy Hospital” (1969), ink on paper, seven parts. Installation view, Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital at Karma.

Ida Applebroog, an acclaimed artist who confronted the violence, coercion and mortality that can simmer beneath everyday relationships with a prolific stream of drawings, paintings, sculptures and ...

Ida Applebroog in her studio, 2018 Photo: ... The exhibition featured a room-sized structure plastered with more than 100 drawings based on the aforementioned series of sketches from the late 1960s.