At the same time, just as importantly, there is a new
generation of dynamic young dealers who are very active in post-war Italian art — doing a lot
of research and promoting
artists with catalogs, museum shows and major highly focused art - fair booths.
The
artist's work has also been exhibited posthumously in solo exhibitions that include a major 1997 installation
of the Congregations curated by Klaus Kertess for the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York; ROAD: Alfonso Ossorio's Response to Jackson Pollock's Death at the Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton in 2001 and, the following year, an exhibition
of his ballet and costume designs at the Mississippi Museum
of Art in Jackson, MS.. Since his death, Ossorio's work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, most notably Parallel Visions: Modern
Artists and Outsider Art at the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, which traveled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain and the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland (1992); Shaping a
Generation: The Art and
Artists of Betty Parsons at the Heckscher Museum
of Art in Huntington, NY (1999); Postmodern Transgressions:
Artists Working Beyond the Frame at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT (1999); Surrealism USA at the National Academy Museum in New York, which traveled to the Phoenix Art Museum (2005); Repartir à Zéro, 1945 - 1949 (Starting from Scratch) at the Musée des Beaux - Arts de Lyon in France (2008); Asian / American / Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900 - 1970 at the de
Young Museum in San Francisco, CA (2008); and Splendor
of Dynamic Structure: Celebrating 75 Years
of the American Abstract
Artists at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum
of Art
of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (2011).
This symposium, the first
of its kind on the West Coast and one
of the first in the United States, will provide a new lense through which to better understand China's transformtive development, as expressed especially through the
dynamic work
of a
younger generation of experimental
artists.
His death was announced by Thomas Lawson, the dean
of the art school at the California Institute
of the Arts, where Mr. Asher taught for more than 30 years, earning a reputation as one
of the most
dynamic art educators
of his
generation, deeply influencing many
younger artists.