The new issue features reviews of two major
Op art surveys (Columbus, Ohio, and Frankfurt, Germany).
This year marks the 50th anniversary of MoMA's seminal
Op art survey The Responsive Eye, so expect plenty more shows examining the movement's legacy and key artists (including The Illusive Eye, coming in 2016 to El Museo del Barrio).
Not exact matches
The museum's collection of post-war works on paper contains a comprehensive
survey of 1960s artists who worked in prints and drawings, from minimalism (Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt) to pop
art (Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist) to
op art (Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley).
He was included in «The Responsive Eye,» the Museum of Modern
Art's popular
survey of
Op Art in 1965, and had his first solo show in New York at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1966.
Several of her Optical paintings are also included in Optic Nerve, a major
survey of
Op Art, currently at the Columbus Museum of
Art.
Alexander Liberman, Sun II, 1962 Acrylic on canvas, 79.25 inches diameter, private collection Feb. 16 — June 17, 2007 The first comprehensive
survey of
Op Art by an American museum in more than 25 years, the exhibition examines the development and lasting influence of the international movement exploring perceptual phenomena in painting, sculpture, and light installation.
El Museo del Barrio is pleased to present The Illusive Eye, an international
survey on Kinetic and
Op art.
His work has been presented in significant
survey exhibitions, including documenta 6 and 7, Kassel (1977, 1982); Zeitgeist, Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin (1982); A New Spirit of Painting, Royal Academy of
Arts, London (1981); Information, Museum of Modern
Art, New York (1970);
Op Losse Schroeven, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1969) and When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern (1969).
Back in the 1960s, he was the sole artist to be featured in the most important American
surveys of that decade, The 1965 Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern
Art, which introduced
Op Art to the general public, and Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum in 1966, which focused on Minimalism, marking him as an artist at the forefront of that contemporary vanguard.
Including rarely seen early etchings, letterpress printing trays and liquor bottles painted with his trademark cast of down - and - out urban characters, constellations of vibrant
op -
art painted panels, animatronic taggers, and an elaborate re-creation of a cacophonous street - corner bodega, along with many new projects, this first midcareer
survey of the globally influential San Francisco — based artist showcases the astonishing range of McGee's compassionate and vivacious work.