Radiance + Reflection: Stain Paintings & Drawings 1960 - 1964

Yares Art Projects

July 5, 2013

Yares Art Projects presents paintings and drawings from American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor Jules Olitski; many of which have never been publicly shown before. From 1960 through 1964, Olitski created many of his paintings by staining: pouring acrylic paint onto raw (unprimed or unprepared) canvas so that it soaked directly into the cloth. This exhibition features a selection of works from this period, known as the "Stain" paintings.

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Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds

The Menil Collection
A Retrospective of Drawings by Lee Bontecou, January 31 - May 11, 2014

March 14, 2013

"Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds" is the first retrospective exhibition of the drawings of American artist Lee Bontecou. Born in 1931, the works selected span more than five decades of Bontecou’s career, from the late 1950s, when she began her innovative works on paper with welding torch and soot as a drawing tool and medium while studying in Rome as a Fulbright Scholar, to the work that is ongoing in her Pennsylvania studio. Like her sculptures, which are made primarily of welded steel, canvas, porcelain, and vacuum-formed plastic, her drawings highlight the ingenuity and bravura of her experiments with materials and ways of creating and making spatial form. “Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds,” is curated by Michelle White for The Menil Collection, and will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with new scholarly texts. The exhibition will travel to The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, in late spring of 2014.

Jules Olitski: On an Intimate Scale

The Pink Line Project

September 21, 2012

This fall, three institutions are celebrating the art of Jules Olitski (1922-2007). Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and the British sculptor Anthony Caro were brought into public prominence by art critic Clement Greenberg, who coined the term "post-painterly abstraction." Olitski was a close friend and neighbor of Noland's, when Olitski taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, and Noland lived nearby. In the 1960s Olitski generally shared with Noland, and other members of the Washington Color School, an approach to painting in which the canvas is covered with pure areas of color, characterized, as well, by experimentation with color and pigments. Olitski applied the paint by staining, then spraying, and later used unconventional tools such as brooms, mops, and leaf blowers, among other things. His richly diverse surfaces diffused color and light, often with rich variations in texture.

Frank Stella – The Retrospective. Works 1958-2012

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

September 8, 2012 - January 20, 2013

Frank Stella (born 1936) is one of the last living heroes of American painting from the 1950s and 1960s. Stella’s recent works demonstrate yet again his compelling path in the direction of abstraction. Hardly twenty-years old, the young artist conquered the New York art scene in the late 1950s with a sensation: His large Black Paintings not only intensified the debate on Minimalism in painting but also prepared the way for the “exit from the picture into space.” But unlike his contemporaries, Stella took a completely independent path that led him to ever more opulent, ever more baroque reliefs. With his turn “from Minimalism to Maximalism,” Frank Stella developed into one of the most distinctive artists of the 20th century. Featuring circa 60 mostly large-format works as well as 30 drawings and sketches, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is honoring Frank Stella with a comprehensive exhibition that makes up the capstone to the wide range of presentations celebrating the artist’s 75th birthday.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons

October 9, 2010

The Toledo exhibition of his Irregular Polygons, curated by Brian Kennedy, organized and originally shown at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College on October 9, 2010–March 13, 2011 Lecture: An Evening with Frank Stella Weblink Masters Series: An Evening with Frank Stella Video Link Toledo Museum of Art Weblink

An Evening with Frank Stella at the Toledo Museum of Art

An Evening with Frank Stella at the Toledo Museum of Art