Current
Exhibitions
Alex Katz: Small Paintings
April 7–July 31, 2001
Although
contemporary artist Alex Katz is known for his large-scale figurative
paintings, the exhibition will feature his lesser-known small-scale
works. Small, minimal landscape paintings will be on view along with
KatzŐs reductive portraits. Katz began creating these small paintings
in the early 1950s when the epic, "all-over" canvases of abstract expressionist
painters dominated the art world. It was at an intimate scale that Katz
originated the central focus, unmodulated colors, and flat shapes that
distinguish his art. Exhibition and catalogue organized by the Addison
Gallery of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
City, and the Kemper Museum in Kansas City.
William
Doyle, Lady in the Sheer White Dress
1805, Yale University Art Gallery
Archive
Exhibitions
Winter
2001
Reinventing the West: The Photographs of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams;
The American Land: Selections from the Addison Collection;Foundations:
Building the Addison's Collection and Elson Artist-in-Residence Project:
Jose Bedia
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Alex Katz,
Red Smile, 1994, oil on canvas
12x9", Whitney Museum of American Art
Love
and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures from the Yale University
Art Gallery April 28–July 31, 2001
This
major exhibition from the Yale University Art Gallery, organized by Robin
Jaffee Frank, examines the intimate and rich role of miniatures in America
through 100 exceptional works of art, including several on loan from the
Gibbes permanent collection. The artists included read like a Who's Who
of American miniature painting from around 1760 to 1830. The exhibition
is unusual in that it includes artists' tools, microscopes and magnifying
glasses that illuminate the complex processes used to create them.
Small
enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the miniature stands apart from
any other art form because of its highly personal content. Revealing people's
private selves and secrets, these treasures portray loved ones and were
commissioned on the occasions of births, engagements, marriages, deaths,
and other personal events. These tiny objects are weighted with meaning,
illustrating how art represented joy or bereavement in the mid-eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
Kerry
James Marshall, Souvenir II., 1997
108 x 120", acrylic and collage on canvas
Addison Gallery of American Art
New
Work: Recent Additions to the Collection
April 21-July 31, 2001
This
exhibition will introduce recent acquisitions by contemporary artists,
including a banner-sized painting by Kerry James Marshall, a large-scale
photograph by Lewis Baltz, and a human-scaled sculpture by Siah Armajani.
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