Not exact matches
The artistic landscape has become increasingly
narrowed in the past twenty years and this
exhibition seeks to rectify that by bringing into
focus this group
of important painters.
Initially intended to be a career retrospective, the
exhibition narrowed in
focus upon our discovery
of several storage boxes that held a wealth
of previously unseen photographs dating from the artist's graduate school days at the Institute
of Design.
To speak more about the selection process for this show, it is also interesting to note that as we
narrowed our
focus there were a number
of directions this
exhibition could have taken and while it became clear that we could have, for instance, created an entire
exhibition strictly
of triangular shapes in corners (with pieces by Benglis, Morris, Smithson, and Turrell, for example), we chose to mount an
exhibition where each work engages the corner in its own unique and distinctive way.
Although a seemingly
narrow focus, this
exhibition presents a vast range
of ideas, approaches, styles, and subject matter by masters
of realism, including Tom Martin, Roberto Bernardi, and Alyssa Monks.
The 1980s,
of course, are a decade and 1993 is a single year, so one
of these
exhibitions is going to have a tighter
focus and a
narrower purview than the other.
Across Biscayne Bay, the city's private collections and museums had opened their doors to a series
of excellent
exhibitions that seemed to
focus primarily on the depth
of their holdings this year, rather than any specific or
narrowed curatorial prompt.