Elizabeth Murray, Split and Join, 1980, oil on canvas |
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Bank of America have partnered to present this unique exhibition, Reverberations which will be on view in the Academy's Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, June 28 - September 21, 2008.
Reverberations at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will present over 80 works from Bank of America's extraordinary collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Widely regarded as one of the world's finest corporate art collections, the Bank of America Collection is remarkable for its high quality, its stylistic diversity, historical depth, and attention to regional identity. The Academy has had the privilege of organizing the largest ever exhibition of art from the collection. In this unique collaboration, the Academy was allowed to craft an exhibition that is visually dazzling and carries scholarly integrity.
Helen Frankenthaler, Spanning, 1971, acrylic on canvas
Featuring works of art with a focus on intense color and geometry, the exhibition extends back into the early part of the twentieth-century to show antecedents and models for this approach to art making. Two works on paper by Stanton MacDonald-Wright and John Marin establish this trajectory. Not confined to minimalism or colorfield painting, Reverberations highlights the work of artists such as Ed Ruscha, Roger Brown, Janet Fish and Paul Wonner, who employed the lessons of this way of working in philosophically and politically complex realist paintings. The exhibition thus highlights two parallel strains of modernism and in contemporary art that are usually seen as opposites. In the Bank of America Collection, they participate in a stimulating visual dialogue, challenging what we know about art of the last fifty years.
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