Rosalyn Drexler, a female artist within the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has been subject to anachronistic analysis and contemporary ideology being applied to her work in a critical sense. In addition, the artist has faced the dilemma of existing as a niche artist within the movement, especially due to some of her own ideologies which were reflected in her art. The vast majority of sources and work on the artist are either surface-level or intensely in-depth thesis-level papers, with little intermediate sources on her available. As such, I am seeking to write on the artist’s life and work and how it was informed ideologically and through which influences.

Bukky Gbadegesin, ogbadege@slu.edu. As the faculty mentor within the Art History department, Bukky Gbadegesin was influential on the work through the entirety of it, as the research is done within a directed study as a part of the capstone, and she has been influential as a professor for a multitude of classes.