Dates:
June 17 – August 28, 2011
Location:
Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
When in 1946 New Yorker critic Robert Coates identified an expressive, gestural and subjective approach towards abstract painting in American art, he inadvertently gave the name to a style popularly known as “Abstract Expressionism.” Never a formal movement, the elements he and others identified in Abstract Expressionism were present in the work of mid-century figure painters and abstract artists alike. This installation explores the work of diverse artists who identified with the Abstract Expressionist label, and others who rejected it and its underlying premises despite adopting techniques learned from its core practitioners.
Artists featured in this installation include: Walter Anderson, Byron Browne, Kenneth Callahan, Willem de Kooning, Phillip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Robert Keyser, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Loren MacIver, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Raymond Saunders, Sonia Sekula, David Smith, Nancy Spero, Hedda Sterne, Theodoros Stamos, Dorothea Tanning, and Robert Vickrey.
Curator: Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art