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15/9/2010

The Independent Eye

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

curated by Angus Trumbleand Eleanor Hughes

The Independent Eye marks the first museum exhibition of selected works from the Lurie collection of British art, which will be gifted to the Yale Center for British Art. The exhibition will bring to the forefront British artists who have produced provocative work over long and consistently prolific careers. On view will be Caulfield's seminal painting, Wine Bar (1983); two transcendental and viewer-enveloping Diorama paintings by Stephenson, dating from1967; Walker's monumental tributes to old master painting, realized through energized, tactile, abstract shapes; and a number of major works by Hoyland. The latter's use of paint in vibrant, luscious color—splattered, brushed, dripped, and poured onto the canvas—bears out his own definition of the medium: "Paintings are there to be experienced, they are events. They are also to be meditated on and to be enjoyed by the senses, to be felt through the eye. Paintings are not to be reasoned with, they are not to be understood, they are to be recognized."

Guided by their passionate belief in the primacy of the personal, emotional encounter with art, Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie have amassed a vital and dynamic collection of contemporary British art that spans the past four decades. The Luries trace the source of their collecting to an Ian Stephenson retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in 1977; in following years they discovered a penchant for collecting and formed close friendships with Hoyland, Caulfield, and Stephenson.

Their passion for collecting extends to a wide range of interests, including East and South Asian sculpture; Southeast Asian and African works of art; Pre-Columbian sculpture, textiles, and ceramics; and contemporary Japanese ceramic sculpture. According to Samuel Lurie, "We love and collect art in so many different areas that each one is like an adventure. We start out knowing almost nothing about it, and we learn. It's by our own efforts and work that we gain this knowledge and our own understanding of the art, and form our own conclusions." They have an extensive personal art library and have written two books, Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: Fired with Passion (2006) and Love and Art (2009), about their journey as collectors.

The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie has been curated by Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, and Eleanor Hughes, Associate Curator and Head of Exhibitions and Publications, with assistance Andrea Wolk Rager, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Center for British Art.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated book, published by the Center in association with Yale University Press, which will provide a crucial opportunity to examine this period through the lens of the Lurie collection and will include contributions by leading critics and writers on contemporary British art. Following a critical overview of the period, essays will focus on individual artists in the collection and their connections to one another, as well as a discussion of the role of prints and printmaking in contemporary British art. The publication is available for purchase in the Museum Shop.

Image: Patrick Caulfield, Coloured Still Life, 600 × 368

Press contact:
Amy McDonald‚ Public Relations and Marketing Manager 203 432 2853 amy.mcdonald@yale.edu
Kaci Bayless, Public Relations Coordinator kaci.bayless@yale.edu

Opening: Thursday, September 16, 5:30 pm

Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, New Haven
tue-sat 10am-5pm, sun 12am-5pm
Free admission

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