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The Pull of Experiment: Postwar American Printmaking
September 25, 2009–January 3, 2010
The Pull of Experiment: Postwar American Printmaking explores a dynamic and innovative 20-year period following the Second World War that fundamentally changed the boundaries of intaglio printmaking. The exhibition features more than 40 prints drawn from the Gallery's collection of works on paper that highlight experimental printing techniques, reflecting the creative spirit incited by the interaction of American and émigré artists following the war. Presenting works by major printmakers of the period, including Stanley William Hayter, Boris Margo, Gabor Peterdi, and Karl Schrag, The Pull of Experiment also includes important works by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Louise Nevelson, whose postwar prints bore the influence of this period of innovation.
Exhibition organized by Katherine Alcauskas, the Florence B. Selden Curatorial Intern, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery. Made possible by an endowment created with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florence B. Selden Fund, with additional support provided by Mr. and Mrs. James N. Heald II, B.S. 1949.
Image: Karl Kasten, Valencia, 1960. Color etching and aquatint. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of James N. Heald II, B.S. 1949 |
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Continuous Present
October 6, 2009–January 3, 2010
Continuous Present features a selection of work by
11 of today’s most compelling contemporary artists working in a broad array of media, including film, video, photography, painting, and sculpture. The artists chosen for the show—Francis Alÿs, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Rodney Graham, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Thomas Nozkowski, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, Dieter Roth, and Franz West—share a keen interest in time and sensory perception despite the aesthetic diversity of their practices. Their work reveals the capacity for art to profoundly reposition our physical and intellectual engagement with the world around us as they invite us to experience the “continuous present.”
Exhibition organized by Jennifer Gross, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery. Made possible by the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund, with additional support provided by the Carol and Sol LeWitt Fund and Allen Grover Fund for Contemporary Art.
Image: Rodney Graham, still from City Self/Country Self, 2000. 35 mm film transferred to DVD. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund |
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