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7/2/2014

Richard Patterson / Roy Lichtenstein

Flag Art Foundation, New York

The Flag Art Foundation is pleased to present two exhibitions: I'm Walking Here! Richard Patterson curated by Toby Kamps, and Roy Lichtenstein Nudes and Interiors curated by Hilary Harkness & Ewan Gibbs, organized in cooperation with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, featuring a selection of drawing, collage, and sculpture. The two exhibitions will be on view from February 8th through May 17th, 2014.

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I'm Walking Here! is a mini-survey and the first comprehensive presentation in New York of Richard Patterson's career to date. It chronicles the British-born, Dallas-based artist's many painterly innovations and pop-cultural inspirations and points to new directions in his work. A veteran of Damien Hirst's seminal 1988 exhibition Freeze and a leading light in the influential YBA, or Young British Artist, group, Patterson developed an exuberant and sumptuous style he dubs "hyperabstraction." Made with outrageous skill, humor, and daring, his meticulously constructed images combine elements of photorealism and gestural abstraction in an attempt to update the brushy breakthroughs of 1950s Abstract Expressionism for an era when images travel at the speed of light. They are loaded with countless references -- art-historical, cinematic, historic, and psychosexual. To enter the pictorial and psychic space of one of Patterson's paintings is to tumble into a fantastically overdetermined realm in which distinctions between form and symbol, surface and depth, and sublime and profound are lovingly blurred.

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the artist by Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston.

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Pairing established and emerging talent is central to FLAG's program. We are proud to present Roy Lichtenstein: Nudes and Interiors curated by artists Hilary Harkness and Ewan Gibbs organized in cooperation with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. The exhibition includes 37 works by Lichtenstein including drawing, collage and sculpture as well two original works by the curators.

In this exhibition, Gibbs and Harkness invite us to take a glimpse into the world of Lichtenstein's interiors and his nudes. A world packed with the indelible marks of a career that spanned decades and integrated a variety of artistic influences.

About The FLAG Art Foundation
The FLAG Art Foundation is an exhibition space for contemporary art. The program includes four to six professionally curated shows each year by established and emerging international artists. FLAG provides a unique educational environment in which visitors can view, contemplate, and engage in active dialogue with the artworks. Curators select and borrow from a variety of sources to include a wide range of work in each exhibition. FLAG is also a resource that facilitates loans of contemporary artworks to museums around the world. An extensive database of available works is maintained and made available to curators via info@flagartfoundation.org.

Opening Saturday, February 8th 6-8pm

Flag Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street, NY
Wednesday through Saturday, 11 - 17

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