Exhibitions 2020s

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

Groundings examines the continuing legacy of American Abstract Artists by juxtaposing the works of historic and contemporary members of the organization. Having little abstract tradition of their own, American artists, many of them immigrants to this country, formed this group in New York in 1936 at a time when abstract art was met with strong, even critical resistance. Through this group, one of the earliest to be particularly inclusive of women artists, a new advocacy emerged providing opportunities to exhibit and a much-needed refuge for discussion related to new ideas and artistic theories.

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Stripes—The Whole Idea

My introduction to stripes as a certifiable subject for art came in 1971 when I was a student at Moore College of Art and visited England for the first time. It was there that I saw Bridget Riley’s hypnotic stripe paintings in her first museum survey at the Hayward Gallery. A year later, I witnessed firsthand Gene Davis’s spectacular Franklin’s Footpath as it was being painted on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. At the time, the 414-foot-long painting of candy-colored stripes in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was the largest artwork in the world.

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