We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz
Artist Jonathan Horowitz (b. 1966) is known for combining the imagery and ambivalence of Pop art with the engaged criticality of conceptualism. Throughout his three-decade practice, his work in video, sculpture, painting, and photography has examined the deep-seated links between consumer culture and political consciousness.
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz looks at how artists have historically responded to the rise of both xenophobia鈥攊ncluding anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry鈥攁nd authoritarianism. The exhibition also addresses issues surrounding immigration, assimilation, and cultural identity.
Featuring approximately 80 works of painting, sculpture, photography, and video, the exhibition will include examples of American social realism from the 1930s and 1940s, new works by Jonathan Horowitz, as well as 36 newly commissioned political posters by contemporary artists, including Judith Bernstein, Marcel Dzama, Rico Gatson, Kim Gordon and Jason Smith, Cheyenne Julien, Christine Sun Kim, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Marilyn Minter.
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Artist Jonathan Horowitz (b. 1966) is known for combining the imagery and ambivalence of Pop art with the engaged criticality of conceptualism. Throughout his three-decade practice, his work in video, sculpture, painting, and photography has examined the deep-seated links between consumer culture and political consciousness.
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz looks at how artists have historically responded to the rise of both xenophobia鈥攊ncluding anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry鈥攁nd authoritarianism. The exhibition also addresses issues surrounding immigration, assimilation, and cultural identity.
Featuring approximately 80 works of painting, sculpture, photography, and video, the exhibition will include examples of American social realism from the 1930s and 1940s, new works by Jonathan Horowitz, as well as 36 newly commissioned political posters by contemporary artists, including Judith Bernstein, Marcel Dzama, Rico Gatson, Kim Gordon and Jason Smith, Cheyenne Julien, Christine Sun Kim, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Marilyn Minter.
Artists on show
- Abraham Anshelovich Manievich
- Adrian Piper
- Andy Warhol
- Ben Shahn
- Bernard Perlin
- Charles White
- Charles White
- Cheyenne Julien
- Christine Sun Kim
- Enrique Chagoya
- Fritz Scholder
- Glenn Ligon
- Guadalupe Maravilla
- Henry Sugimoto
- Huma Bhabha
- Jason Smith
- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
- Jonathan Horowitz
- Judith Bernstein
- Kara Walker
- Kim Gordon
- Luis Jiménez
- Marcel Dzama
- Marilyn Minter
- Max Weber
- Rebecca Lepkoff
- Rico Gatson
- Robert Colescott
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