Sentences with phrase «groundbreaking exhibitions such»

Over the next six years, the museum organized controversial and groundbreaking exhibitions such as ««Bad» Painting» (1978) and «Extended Sensibilities: Homosexual Presence in Contemporary Art» (1982).

She has also served as Curator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, working with artists such as KAWS, Hope Gangloff, Brazilian troupe Chelpa Ferro, Andrea Dezso, Brody Condon and others; Assistant Curator of architecture and design at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where she worked on groundbreaking exhibitions such as «Cai Guo - Qiang: I Want to Believe», «Zaha Hadid», and «Restoring a Masterpiece: Frank Lloyd Wright «s Guggenheim Museum»; Curator of Collections and Public Programs at the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, a facility housed in Frank Lloyd Wright's idiosyncratic tower and now a World Heritage Site; Director of Community Outreach of the Queens Theatre in the Park in New York City, a premier performing arts venue that serves the most ethnically diverse county in the nation; and as Project Coordinator for the Mexico Now Festival, New York City's first — and only — annual festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture.

Beginning in the 1960s, McCracken exhibited steadily in the United States and abroad, and his early work was included in groundbreaking exhibitions such as Primary Structuresat the Jewish Museum, New York (1966), and American Sculpture of the Sixties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1967).

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THIS YEAR»S SELECTION of the Best Black Art Books includes 12 volumes that in various ways are reframing art history — from scholarly works shedding light on major cultural moments and volumes of groundbreaking photography, to exhibition catalogs surveying broadly the work of important artists such as Kerry James Marshall and Alma Thomas.

In 1965, Dwan established a gallery in New York where she presented groundbreaking exhibitions of such new tendencies as minimalism, conceptual art, and land.

The exhibition will show some sixty works by this hitherto little noticed «artists» artist», including groundbreaking series such as his Ice Box Paintings, his comics narratives and Vietnam paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as never - before - exhibited drawings and selected late works from the 1980s to the 2000s...

She personally curated a number of groundbreaking exhibitions and wrote catalogue essays for world - renowned artists such as Betye Saar, Sam Gilliam, and Melvin Edwards.»

During that decade collectors had the opportunity to buy first - rate examples of Cuban Modernism at important galleries such as Perls and Pierre Matisse, while MoMA's groundbreaking Modern Cuban Painters exhibition in 1944 showcased the full breadth of the island's artistic talents.

These works formed the basis of his groundbreaking 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and drew praise from prominent critics such as Clement Greenberg, who quickly became a champion of Bowling's work.

The exhibition includes iconic Conner pieces such as BOMBHEAD and PUFF, which relate to his groundbreaking 1976 film CROSSROADS, as well as prints by Ruscha spanning the last forty - five years.

The Guggenheim Museum states that Robert Morris in 1968 had a groundbreaking exhibition and essay defining the movement and the Museum Website states as «Process artists were involved in issues attendant to the body, random occurrences, improvisation, and the liberating qualities of nontraditional materials such as wax, felt, and latex.

During his 31 years as the exhibitions secretary at London's Royal Academy, Sir Norman Rosenthal staged groundbreaking exhibitions of art including the legendary show, «A New Spirit in Painting» (1981), which brought artists such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz to broader recognition.

In addition, she championed experimental and underrepresented artists throughout her tenure, while bringing many noteworthy exhibitions to the Walker, such as Merce Cunningham: Common Time, International Pop, and groundbreaking exhibitions like Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Cuban art to be organized in the US in decades and currently on view.

Curating many groundbreaking shows, such as Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 - 1996 (1996), which amassed more than 100 works into an exhibition that was simultaneously on - view at CCCADI, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts.

With a title inspired by the psychedelic track produced by the groundbreaking musical legends Pink Floyd, (featured on the album, «The Piper at the Gates of Dawn «1967), and with content driven by Zodiac and Chinese astrological calenders, Hippocrate's four temperaments, and artists such as Bruce Nauman and Piero Fornasetti; this exhibition inherently commemorates and examines the great explorers, philosophers, creators and thinkers through time, and even more specifically, through the lens of one of history's most infamous maritime disasters.

Ms. Golden has produced a number of groundbreaking exhibitions for both institutions and has had a primary role fostering the careers of influential African - American artists such as Glen Ligon, Lorna Simpson and Martin Puryear among others.

This unique selection of materials documents Wilson's actions and work and reveals her interest in fellow artists such as Vito Acconci, Carolee Schneemann, Nancy Spero and Lynda Benglis and includes in its entirety Lucy Lippard's exhibition catalogue for c. 7,500, the groundbreaking 1973 exhibition of women Conceptual artists, which first declared the significance of Wilson's work.

She championed the presentation of many groundbreaking exhibitions and secured major collection gifts, including the Haub Family Collection of Western American art; 30 masterworks from the 1790s to the present by Charles Bird King, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Georgia O'Keeffe and others; and the Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection comprising 225 works including American studio glass featuring Pilchuck Glass School artists such as Dale Chihuly, Ginny Ruffner and Therman Statom, as well as artworks by Northwest artists such as Morris Graves and Deborah Butterfield.

No Problem: Cologne / New York 1984 - 1989 exhibition, focused on a lively dialogue which connected the groundbreaking art scenes scene from the USA and Europe, was held in two separate gallery venues in New York City, and it presented some of the best and most revolutionary contemporary artists, including great names such as Jenny Holzer, Werner Büttner, Richard Prince, George Condo, Jeff Koons, Walter Dahn, Cindy Sherman, Günther Förg, Robert Gober, Georg Herold, Barbara Kruger, Christopher Wool.

Foster further dismisses Rita Gonzalez's groundbreaking exhibition «Phantom Sightings» — and shows such as the Asco retrospective — as tokenism, as that «one show» or «that show.»

The exhibition also highlights other groundbreaking choreographers, such as Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown.

Spanning more than fifty years, the exhibition will examine the transformation of paper from its traditional role as a substrate for prints to an active partner — and stand - alone medium — in the creation of editions and unique works by such groundbreaking artists of the 20th and 21st century as Mel Bochner, Lynda Benglis, Chakaia Booker, Lesley Dill, Leonardo Drew, David Hockney, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Richard Tuttle, to name just a few.

Bryan Robertson, curator of the Whitechapel Gallery from 1952 to 1968, was famous for his groundbreaking exhibitions that brought American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline to London.

For his most recent exhibition, at the uptown gallery, L&M Arts, Hammons turned to painting, producing a show whose references, such as those to Robert Rauschenberg and Steven Parrino, felt groundbreaking rather than derivative.