Jason Andrews has prepared a group show of contemporary drawings featuring 10 young artists well - known in the neighborhood and beyond (Anthony Browne, Maria Calandra, Kevin Curran, Ryan Michael Ford, Libby Hartle, Francesco Longenecker, Eric Mavko, Thomas Micchelli, Mathew Miller, Andrew Szobody and Alberto Giacometti) AND a precious double - sided drawing
by a modern master Giacometti loaned from a private collection.
Not exact matches
The exhibition features a single drawing (double sided)
by the great
modern master Alberto
Giacometti.
The Collection boasts masterpieces from Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical Painting, European Abstraction, Surrealism, or Abstract Expressionism
by some of the most extraordinary
modern masters, such as Brancusi, Braque, Calder, Dalí, de Chirico, Duchamp, Ernst,
Giacometti, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Magritte, Miró, Mondrian, Picabia, Picasso, Pollock, or Severini.
It is a rare treat to have a drawings
by a
Modern Master like Alberto
Giacometti in an emerging art neighborhood like Bushwick, but Norte Maar's director Jason Andrew was able to score a small double - sided drawing — «Double Sided Drawing featuring Double Portrait of Diego and Standing Man Arms Outstretched» (c.1947 - 1950)-- with some of the artist's most recognizable forms (a standing man, busts).
These include artefacts on loan from regional museums and private collections nationwide, sculptures
by artists including
modern masters Louise Bourgeois, Alberto
Giacometti, Henry Moore, and Fausto Melotti, along with Phyllida Barlow's bronze cast paint sticks, Subodh Gupta's bronze Mona Lisa, a cast bronze fist
by Martin Creed, and Mark Wallinger's spectacles.
The show includes monochromatic works
by old
masters like
Giacometti and
modern masters like Frank Stella and Josef Albers.
Transfigurations:
Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection features an in - depth selection of masterworks
by Pablo Picasso, Alberto
Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet.
The Day Sale features the
masters of the
modern, with over 50 sculptures such as a stunning carved green marble work
by Barbara Hepworth, a selection of undulating polished bronze forms
by Jean (Hans) Arp, two whimsical sculptural figures
by Joan Miró and an early, Cubist bronze
by Alberto
Giacometti.
With the purchase in 1986 of a significant work
by Picasso, Wexner began a partnership with the art dealer Richard Gray, and since then, the Wexners purposefully began to look more intently at earlier
modern masters, primarily collecting the exemplary work of Picasso,
Giacometti, and Dubuffet.
Transfigurations:
Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection features an in - depth selection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings
by Pablo Picasso, Alberto
Giacometti, and Jean Dubuffet.