Abstract (Semi) and Phantasmagorical

The Wall Street Journal
by Peter Plagens

December 24, 2011

The centerpieces of this gallery exhibition are four hanging sculptures, each about a yard long, that look like amalgams of clipper ships and jellyfish. They're ingeniously balanced with hanging fishing weights of different sizes and shapes. The nice touch of dirtying up the rear surfaces of the mobiles' "sails" adds to their feeling of soaring optimistically through the air. But the nicest touch is simply Ms. Bontecou's matchless deftness in combining volumetric and linear form to wring an awful lot of emotive response from nothing but untitled things.

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Lee Bontecou at FreedmanArt

ArtNews
by Barbara Pollack

January 1, 2012

Sailing into the future with a fleet of fantastic mobiles , this magnificent exhibition would indicate that Lee Bontecou has no intention of slowing down. The works here are at once delicate and powerful, modernist and contemporary, serene and frightening. It is a difficult balance, but Bontecou handles the contradictions with a masterful use of unconventional materials.

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Frank Stella: Connections

Haunch of Venison, London UK

September 30, 2011

Haunch of Venison London is delighted to present Frank Stella: Connections, the most extensive exhibition of Stella’s work in the UK to date. This exhibition will examine Stella’s long and extraordinarily diverse career and will include works from 1958 to the present day. In collaboration with FreedmanArt, New York, US. Fall 2011.

Circle in the Square

ArtNews
by Barbara A. MacAdam

August 8, 2011

Throughout his career, Jules Olitski stood just off-center of the core American Abstract Expressionists. This enlightening (all puns intended) exhibition, “Embracing Circles 1959–1964,” shows the artist at a concentrated moment in a career marked by various styles, the most signature being his multi-toned, spray-painted works.

The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Don't Want to Miss

Art in America Magazine
by Leigh Anne Miller

June 21, 2011

Pairs of jiggly biomorphic circles jostle in richly hued fields in 10 large, super-mod abstractions from the early 1960s, a key period in Jules Olitski's career. Seeing these paintings in person helps you understand why Clement Greenberg and legions of other admirers fell head-over-heels for Olitski's work.

Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

June 11, 2010

This exhibition draws together more than 30 significant works from public and highlights important periods and themes from Olitski’s career. With works from his early Stain Paintings of the 1960s to his Late Paintings, this is the first exhibition of the artist’s paintings since his death in 2007. Russian-born artist Jules Olitski (1922–2007) first received international acclaim as a Color Field painter and continued to experiment throughout his career. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by E.A. Carmean Jr., Alison de Lima Greene, and Karen Wilkin. After its showing at the Kemper Museum, the exhibition travels to The Museum of Fine Arts-Houston; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and American University Museum, Washington, D.C.; in 2012. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Weblink

Lee Bontecou: Insights, ZKM

ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

May 27, 2011

For the first time in thirty years and to mark the occasion of her 80th birthday, the work of US-American artist Lee Bontecou is to be honored by an exhibition held at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition provides insights into the Bontecou’s innovative work of the 1960s.

Lifetime Achievement Award Honoring Frank Stella

International Sculpture Center

April 26, 2011

The ISC's Board of Trustees established the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991 to recognized individual sculptors who have made exemplary contributions to the field of sculpture. Candidates for the award are masters of sculptural processes and techniques who have devoted their careers to the development of a laudable body of sculptural work as well as to the advancement of the sculpture field as a whole.

Ann Freedman Plans to Open Manhattan Gallery

NEW YORK — Ann Freedman, former director and president of Knoedler & Company, told ARTnewsletter she plans to launch a new gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan next season, where she will work with artists including Lee Bontecou and Frank Stella, as well as the estate of color-field painter Jules Olitski.

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