Robert Ryman and Ellsworth Kelly were both working steadily, granted, but so distinctively as to be inimitable by younger artists — not that Heilmann seems to have ever resorted to simple mimicry, despite the frequency with
which other artists of her generation have used it as a tool.
Not exact matches
On the
other hand, though the group
of painters represented here form a tight - knit «
generation» (one constraint
of the show is that all the
artists were born between 1939 and 1949), and though the selected works originate from the same period and place, the works are aesthetically independent enough to resist any easy categorization according to style or aims... Rubinstein's curation in Reinventing Abstraction proposes something — an idea, a possible history — that may connect with
others but
which is, nevertheless, its own.
Proposals are evaluated on the basis
of the following criteria,
which are weighed equally: How well a project aligns with the MAP Fund's goal
of supporting experimentation and innovation in all traditions and disciplines
of live performance, especially work that brings insight to the issue
of cultural difference, be that in class, gender,
generation, race, religion, sexual orientation or
other aspects
of diversity The artistic strength
of the proposed project The viability
of the project, based on the applicant's professional capabilities as demonstrated in the project narrative, bio and
artist statement, and work samples.
Others were «Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology» at the Hammer Museum (2014),
which surveyed the use
of appropriation and institutional critique in art from the 1980s; and «Jack Goldstein X 10,000» at Orange County Museum
of Art (2012)
which was a retrospective on the
artist who helped initiate an avant - garde art movement referred to as the «Pictures
Generation.»
Through a selection
of major paintings, sculptures and works on paper spanning nearly a century, Flora, Fauna and
Other Forms
of Life offers a diverse sampling
of the ways in
which artists across
generations have interpreted naturalistic imagery.
Significant exhibitions include: Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Boxes in December 1986, just weeks before the
artist's untimely death; She: Works by Richard Prince and Wallace Berman, brought together, for the first time, two
generations of leading
artists from different coasts; Bruce Conner: Work from the 1970s,
which inspired the
artist's first solo retrospective in Europe at the Kunsthalle Wien and Kunsthalle Zurich (2010);
other shows
of important New York - based
artists have included new works by Christopher Wool, Richard Tuttle, Mark Tansey, Kenny Scharf, and Keith Haring.
Having garnered an international reputation as one
of the leading
artists to emerge from the New York Pictures
Generation of the 1970s and 1980s, Simmons has thoughtfully and methodically moved through her various photographic series, such as Early Black and White Interiors, 1976 — 78, in
which pseudo-realities are created by staging miniature spaces with dollhouse furniture and
other banal props; and Walking & Lying Objects, 1987 — 91, a series
of black - and - white photographs
of inanimate objects animated with human legs.
This exhibition features 39 black female
artists, spanning three
generations and a range
of mediums, whose works consider
other women or in
which they turn inward in an exercise
of self - examination.
But this year — with a powerful presentation at Manifesta 11, her first solo museum exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, a prize for best work at the Moscow Young Art Biennial (
which she shared with Brazilian - American
artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite), and a solo booth at Frieze London, among
others — has cemented her place among the next
generation of rising stars.
Belonging to the
generation that produced Abstract Expressionism (he was arguably the first champion
of Jackson Pollock), Greenberg saw in that
artist's personal tragedy a metaphor for the disasters
of American life and art, in
which people were alienated from real culture, were being forced to live off kitsch culture («one
of faked sensations»... «because it was turned out mechanically») and he was resigned to the fact that at the
other extreme, the so called avant - garde had taken off in another direction
which was producing art for art's sake for themselves and the cultural elite.
Others, such as Sheeler, took the stark, yet impressive geometry
of the new industrial landscape as a point
of departureThe exhibition also examines another familiar subject, the human figure,
which proved to be
of abiding interest to the
artists of this
generation.
Siegel points to Tibor de Nagy Gallery,
which opened in 1950 and represented Frankenthaler along with
other second -
generation New York School
artists, as the nexus
of a taste that embraced decorative art, campy humor, and exquisite found objects alongside more commercial abstract paintings.
Curated by Bartomeu Marí, the exhibition features four
generations of artists who question in their work the range
of possibilities between desire — that
which we wish for, independently
of whether it is good or just a fact
of life — and that
which is necessary, without
which we can not exist and
which can not be any
other way.
However, from there came forth photographic and textual - based works,
which of course gave rise to the first
generation of conceptual
artists like Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, and a few
other
Featuring the work
of Sam Gilliam on the cover, a new volume, «Four
Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art,» was published documenting the collection established by Pamela Joyner, which spans four generations of artists bridging the 20th and 21st centuries, through hundreds of images and essays contributed by Courtney J. Martin, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and Christopher Bedford, am
Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection
of Abstract Art,» was published documenting the collection established by Pamela Joyner,
which spans four
generations of artists bridging the 20th and 21st centuries, through hundreds of images and essays contributed by Courtney J. Martin, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and Christopher Bedford, am
generations of artists bridging the 20th and 21st centuries, through hundreds
of images and essays contributed by Courtney J. Martin, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and Christopher Bedford, among
others.
The group's exhibitions,
which took place in Chicago and
other cities between 1966 and 1969, drew national and international attention and went on to influence
generations of artists.
Louise Lawler, a member
of the Pictures
Generation movement
of the 1970s and 80s, became well - known for her photographs framing
other artists» artworks in the varied contexts in
which they were installed and viewed.
Other themes at the exhibition include a mixed media installation by Guillermo Bert,
which features video testimonies
of L.A. immigrants projected onto suspended tumbleweeds; multiple slide projections and audio narratives exploring what it means to be a second -
generation Filipina by looking to the past, present and future by
artist Michelle Dizon; and a video installation that critiques systemic patriarchy and misogyny by Michele O'Marah.
She aligned closely with a group
of New York - based
artists in the 1980s known as the Pictures
Generation,
which included Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Laurie Simmons, among
others.
He was a «voting member»
of the New York
Artist's Club from 1951 until its demise in 1957,
which places him solidly in the first
generation of the New York School, alongside de Kooning, Pollock, Milton Resnick and
others, alongside as well their stalwart champion Harold Rosenberg.