Not exact matches
Following in the
tradition of The Club (1948 — 1962), an organization on East Eighth
Street, where lectures and panel discussions openly aired the debate between figuration and abstraction, and inspired by The Club's renegade members who organized The Ninth
Street Show (1951), an exhibit that shook up the establishment, downtown artists developed bylaws and launched their own spaces.
His masterful collages, which
follow in the Spanish avant - garde
tradition of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Juan Gris, now are reintroduced to the public at NYU's Grey Art Gallery, in the same neighborhood where the Ab - Ex revolution began (by way of the Cedar Tavern, the 9th
Street Show, and the Club).