Staff based at the Institute are experts in their field and focus on
the wider field of sculpture.
Not exact matches
[1] To that end, this exhibition explores the expanded
field of painting through a
wide range
of works in a variety
of media (i.e., installation, video,
sculpture, and painting) that provide fertile territory for examining the legacy and meaning
of painting and painterly practices in contemporary art today.
Like Rauschenberg's Elemental
Sculptures, which were meant to be manipulated and can be installed in various positions, Untitled [black painting with portal form] can be hung either horizontally or vertically, tempering the viewer's corporeal relationship to a large, imposing, matte black form by rearranging the compositional
field.10 When the work is displayed horizontally (fifty - four inches
wide by fifty - one inches high), the rectangular center
of the painting is vertically positioned, suggesting a uniformly darkened doorway, window, or portal.
Made
of wood and smoothly finished in semigloss colors configured as stripes,
wide bands and rectangles, they were supremely tasteful marriages
of Color
Field painting and Minimalist
sculpture.
Featuring a
wide variety
of works from different
fields of media such as painting, photography,
sculpture, and video production, the exhibition will run from May 3 — May 21, 2016.