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Stripes—the whole idea

Stripes—the whole idea
Curated by Edith Newhall

Featuring works by:
Gabriele Evertz, James Juszczyk, Joanne Mattera, Don Porcaro, Mary Schiliro, Melissa Staiger, & Kim Uchiyama

Stripes is the second in a series of online exhibitions presented by American Abstract Artists. The show examines the history and endless possibilities of the stripe in abstract art.

Edith Newhall is a writer, independent curator, and art critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

View the online exhibition here.


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Stripes—the whole idea

by Edith Newhall
January 25, 2021

Featuring works by:
Gabriele Evertz, James Juszczyk, Joanne Mattera, Don Porcaro, Mary Schiliro, Melissa Staiger, & Kim Uchiyama (more…)


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Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of AAA

Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of American Abstract Artists
Curated by Jason Andrew

Featuring works by:
Alice Adams, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Iona Kleinhaut, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Betty Parsons, Judith Rothschild, Edith Schloss, Esphyr Slobodkina, & Karen Schifano

Groundings examines the continuing legacy of American Abstract Artists by juxtaposing the works of historic and contemporary members of the organization. This online exhibition is the first of its kind for the group. Groundings is the initial installment in a series of three online shows, each developed by a different guest curator.

Jason Andrew is an independent curator and writer based in Brooklyn.

View the online exhibition here.


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Groundings—dialogues between contemporary and historic members of American Abstract Artists

by Jason Andrew
November 9, 2020

Featuring works by:
Alice Adams, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Iona Kleinhaut, Katinka Mann, Nancy Manter, Betty Parsons, Judith Rothschild, Edith Schloss, Esphyr Slobodkina, & Karen Schifano (more…)


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Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA at South Bend Museum of Art

Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna

WARNER GALLERY, South Bend Museum of Art
South Bend, Indiana

October 17, 2020 – January 3, 2021

OPENING RECEPTION: October 16, 2020, 5 – 8:30 p.m

South Bend Museum of Art website here

The exhibition is touring via INTERNATIONAL ART & ARTISTS (IA&A)
See venues here.

For more information, PDF of catalogue, installation shots, and link to the curator’s talk, go to the Exhibition page.


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Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age

Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age
Emily Lowe Gallery
Hofstra University Museum of Art
112 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
January 26 – June 19, 2020

OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, January 26, 2-5 p.m
A pdf of the exhibition catalog can be viewed and downloaded here.

With James O. Clark, John Goodyear, Lynne Harlow, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Irene Rousseau, James Seawright, and Patricia Zarate
Curated by Museum Acting Director and Chief Curator Karen T. Albert, this show features art by members of American Abstract Artists that collides with the worlds of science, math, and technology.

Location:
Emily Lowe Gallery
Behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus
Tuesday – Friday, 11 am – 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday, noon – 4 pm

Directions to Hofstra University Museum of Art: https://www.hofstra.edu/community/museum/museum_general.html


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AAA: Digital Prints, 2012–2019

American Abstract Artists: Digital Prints, 2012–2019

Transmitter Gallery 
1329 Willoughby Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11237
January 3 – February 9, 2020

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 3, 6-9pm

This exhibition includes the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio and the 2019 suite of Digital Monoprints.
A pdf of the catalogue of the 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio can be viewed here.
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.
A pdf of the catalogue of the American Abstract Artists: Digital Monoprints 2019 can be viewed here
To flip through the pages of the catalogue at issuu.com click here.

 


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“Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA”

“Blurring Boundaries: The Women Of AAA, 1936–present”
Curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna


PANEL DISCUSSION
Beyond the Gendered Lens; From the AAA Exhibition, Blurring Boundaries, to a larger discussion of Women in Contemporary Art

Tuesday, December 3, 2019,  6 – 8pm
Pen and Brush
29 East 22nd Street
New York, NY, 10010
http://www.penandbrush.org/

PANELISTS:
Virginia AndersonCurator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator of By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists, currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Emily Berger, Artist and AAA Member
Rebecca DiGiovannacurator of the traveling exhibition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – present

Creighton Michael, Artist and AAA Member
Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence in the 1970’s
Karen Wilkinindependent curator and art critic, author of numerous publications on such artists as Katherine Bradford, Stuart Davis, Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hofmann
MODERATOR:
Joanne Mattera, Artist and AAA Member

See the video of the Panel Discussion here on our Media Page

See Panelists’ biographies here

See further viewing and reading list from the Panel Discussion here

See Creighton Michael’s introductory presentation, A Brief History of American Abstract Artists and the Women Who Helped to Make it, here


CLARA M. EAGLE GALLERY, Murray State University
September 27 – November 1, 2018
Murray, Kentucky

EWING GALLERY, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
November 15 – December 10, 2018
Knoxville, Tennessee

The exhibition is touring via INTERNATIONAL ART & ARTISTS (IA&A)
See venues here.

For more information, text, images, and media, see the exhibition page.


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“Chromatic Space” at Shirley Fiterman Art Center

Vincent Longo
Vincent Longo

“Chromatic Space”
SHIRLEY FITERMAN ART CENTER
Curated by Jonathan D. Lippincott
September 22 – November 5, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 22, 6-9pm
81 Barclay St
New York, NY 10007

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Sensory Impact

Sensory Impact Panel Discussion

Sensory Impact – On the occasion of the exhibition, Sensory Impact, American Abstract Artists, Morgan Stanley International, Purchase, New York. Panel discussion moderated by Max Weintraub, Assistant Visiting Professor, Department of Art, Hunter College, CUNY. Panelists: Alice Adams, Christine Berry, Phillis Ideal, Stephen Maine, Stephen Westfall


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