Roy Lichtenstein
dal 9/9/2010 al 22/10/2010
Segnalato da
9/9/2010
Roy Lichtenstein
Mitchell-Innes & Nash Uptown, New York
Reflections. The exhibition focuses on reflections, mirrors and doubling as a career-spanning motif in Lichtenstein's work. Comprising a dozen paintings dating from the early-1960s through the 90s, Reflections is the first survey on this subject in the U.S. In these works Lichtenstein often used his own early work as subject matter, fracturing the composition with abstracted mirror-shards.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Roy Lichtenstein Reflections, on view in the
Chelsea gallery from September 10 through October 23. The exhibition will focus on reflections, mirrors and doubling
as a career-spanning motif in Lichtenstein’s work. Comprising a dozen paintings dating from the early-1960s through
the 90s, Reflections will be the first survey on this subject in the U.S. This will be the gallery’s fourth solo show of the
work of Roy Lichtenstein.
Throughout his career, Roy Lichtenstein challenged the idea of authorship in ways that were both humorous and
sophisticated, with paintings that reflected – and reflected on – popular imagery. Mirrors and doubles began to
appear in his paintings as early as 1961. His engagement with reflection took a literal form in the Mirror series from
the 70s which mimicked the look of commercial mirrors.
The Reflections series of the late-80s brought together strategies of appropriation with painterly notions of
fragmentation. In these works, several of which will be on view, Lichtenstein often used his own early work as subject
matter, fracturing the composition with abstracted mirror-shards. The series played on the dual meanings of
reflection – both appropriative and optical. In the Interiors of the 90s, Lichtenstein painted pictures within pictures,
using his own past works as compositional elements and often depicting a reflective surface to further complicate the
chain of reference.
Roy Lichtenstein Reflections is organized with the support of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. The exhibition will be
accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by art historian Graham Bader and painter David Salle.
Reflections will coincide with a major exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York: Roy Lichtenstein: The
Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968 will be on view from September 24, 2010, through January 2, 2011. It will
include over forty-five drawings borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the United States and
Europe. The exhibition will travel to the Albertina Museum in Vienna in 2011. Also on view this fall will be Roy
Lichtenstein: Kunst als Motiv at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. A major survey of Lichtenstein’s work organized jointly
by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Tate Modern in London is scheduled to open in Chicago in 2012.
Press contact: Mamie Tinkler
mamie@miandn.com
Image: Reflections: Sunday Morning, 1989, magna and oil on canvas. © 2010 Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Opening 10 September 2010
Mitchell-Innes & Nash
534 West 26th Street, New York
Hours: tue-sat 10-18
free admission