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Recent, Current & Future Exhibitions
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David Smith: Sprays , Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Ave., New York, January 17-February 24, 2008. David Smith: Sprays is first in-depth presentation of the artist's spray paintings and drawings in over thirty years. The exhibition includes more than seventy works on canvas and paper dating from 1959-1964, many of which have not been exhibited before, as well as three related sculptures.
David Smith was open to inspiration from visual and emotional source material wherever he found it, from Neolithic art to twentieth-century automotive paint products. The direct process of the Sprays provided an ideal method for Smith to extend his exploration of the visual themes and variations in his welded metal sculptures. Whether they depict a solid geometric construction, a charged constellation of dispersed forms, or a transitional state between these two extremes, the Sprays are intricately constructed, painterly images that reveal Smith's boldly inclusive artistic reach.
Gallery address and hours. Fully-illustrated catalogue; Foreword by Candida Smith; Essay by Peter Stevens.
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David Smith, Object and Image: Small Paintings 1954-58, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, February 2-March 8, 2008. This exhibition presents a rare series of intimate works that fuse painting, drawing and sculptural relief. Although small in scale, the paintings display powerful images that shift from abstract to referential. A fully illustrated catalogue, with an essay by Peter Stevens, is available. Gallery address and hours. |
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Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum, New York, May 4-September 21, 2008. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first major show in a generation to rethink Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed. Featuring major works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Clyfford Still, David Smith, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and others, the exhibition places the art of the period in the cultural and critical context of postwar America--an era imprinted by the Holocaust and Hiroshima on the one hand, and unbridled prosperity and the new consumer culture on the other... (read more). The exhibition will travel to the Saint Louis Art Museum (2008) and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (2009).
Action/Abstraction will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue published by The Jewish Museum in association with Yale University Press. Edited by Norman Kleeblatt, with essays by Debra Bricker Balken, Morris Dickstein, Douglas Dreishpoon, Charlotte Eyerman, Mark Godfrey, Caroline A. Jones, Norman L. Kleeblatt, and Irving Sandler, and a cultural timeline by Maurice Berger. |
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1930s: The Making of "The New Man," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 6-September 7, 2008 brings together over 200 works that explore the seminal link between art and biology. The 1930s saw the dissemination of the contrasting concepts of the “degenerate” artist and those of “superman” or “The New Man,” which were spreading through Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union and elsewhere. The exhibition presents works by European and American artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Vassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, August Sander, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Walker Evans and David Smith, who is represented by eight of the fifteen relief sculptures that comprise his famous Medals for Dishonor series. (read more) |
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David Smith first exhibited the fifteen bronze relief sculptures that comprise his Medals for Dishonor series in November 1940, at Willard Gallery, New York.
Click here to see a facsimile of the 1940 catalogue, which included essays by William Blake and Christina Stead, and illustration captions written by the artist. |
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SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, The Parrish Museum, Southhampton, NY, June 29-September 14, 2008, looks at the myriad ways in which artists have explored the physical and metaphysical properties of sand in their work. The exhibition brings together over fifty works from public and private U.S. collections by artists such as Milton Avery, Lynda Benglis, Vija Celmins, Jopseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Winslow Homer, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ana Mendieta, David Smith, Alfonso Ossorio, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Ed Ruscha, among others. Click here for Museum address and hours and additional information.
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