Post by deanna on Mar 27, 2012 9:11:22 GMT -7
March 29 - May 25
Tamarind artists examine color as form, from the 1960s to the present.
Public reception,
Thursday, March 29, 2012 from 5 - 7 p.m
Color swept through the mid-century art world in a way it never had before. Geometric, hard edge, flat, reductionist — color became a pure form in itself: mysterious but functional, omnipresent and essential. Many artists who came to Tamarind in the 1960s and '70s were devoted to a conceptual framework that removed metaphor, narrative, and the figure from art, and replaced it with the fundamentals of color and line. Edge of Color is a group exhibition that provides a spectrum of Tamarind lithographs from the 1960s to the present, including work by Garo Antreasian, Valerie Arber, Frederick Hammersley, Robert Kelly, Nicholas Krushenick, John McLaughlin, Ruth Root, Leon Polk Smith, and William Turnbull.
Special thanks to the University of New Mexico Art Museum for the generous loan of all works from the 1960s.
Please join us for the opening reception with Tony DeLap. Tony is known as a pioneer of geometric abstractions, a godfather of Op Art, and a meticulous craftsman. He is currently working on a series of lithographs in the Tamarind workshop that will be on display during this opening. Be the first to see his current work!
Tamarind artists examine color as form, from the 1960s to the present.
Public reception,
Thursday, March 29, 2012 from 5 - 7 p.m
Color swept through the mid-century art world in a way it never had before. Geometric, hard edge, flat, reductionist — color became a pure form in itself: mysterious but functional, omnipresent and essential. Many artists who came to Tamarind in the 1960s and '70s were devoted to a conceptual framework that removed metaphor, narrative, and the figure from art, and replaced it with the fundamentals of color and line. Edge of Color is a group exhibition that provides a spectrum of Tamarind lithographs from the 1960s to the present, including work by Garo Antreasian, Valerie Arber, Frederick Hammersley, Robert Kelly, Nicholas Krushenick, John McLaughlin, Ruth Root, Leon Polk Smith, and William Turnbull.
Special thanks to the University of New Mexico Art Museum for the generous loan of all works from the 1960s.
Please join us for the opening reception with Tony DeLap. Tony is known as a pioneer of geometric abstractions, a godfather of Op Art, and a meticulous craftsman. He is currently working on a series of lithographs in the Tamarind workshop that will be on display during this opening. Be the first to see his current work!