Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents
Jun 17, 2011 - Aug 28, 2011
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 鈥淎bstract Expressionism.鈥� 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: Stuart Davis, Willem De Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Miyoko Ito, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Sonia Sekula, Nancy Spero, Hedda Sterne, Theodoros Stamos, Dorothea Tanning, Robert Vickrey, and others.
Curator: Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art
Location: Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Artists featured in this installation include: Stuart Davis, Willem De Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Miyoko Ito, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Sonia Sekula, Nancy Spero, Hedda Sterne, Theodoros Stamos, Dorothea Tanning, Robert Vickrey, and others.
Curator: Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art
Location: Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
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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 鈥淎bstract Expressionism.鈥� 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: Stuart Davis, Willem De Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Miyoko Ito, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Sonia Sekula, Nancy Spero, Hedda Sterne, Theodoros Stamos, Dorothea Tanning, Robert Vickrey, and others.
Curator: Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art
Location: Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Artists featured in this installation include: Stuart Davis, Willem De Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Miyoko Ito, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Sonia Sekula, Nancy Spero, Hedda Sterne, Theodoros Stamos, Dorothea Tanning, Robert Vickrey, and others.
Curator: Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art
Location: Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Artists on show
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Dorothea Tanning
- Franz Kline
- Grace Hartigan
- Hedda Sterne
- Jackson Pollock
- Joan Mitchell
- Lee Krasner
- Mark Rothko
- Miyoko Ito
- Nancy Spero
- Norman Lewis
- Philip Guston
- Robert Mitchell
- Robert Motherwell
- Robert Vickrey
- Sonja Sekula
- Stuart Davis
- Theodoros Stamos
- Willem de Kooning
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