Richard Pousette-Dart
dal 5/11/2003 al 3/1/2004
Segnalato da
5/11/2003
Richard Pousette-Dart
Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
Paintings and Works On Paper. This will be the first Bay Area exhibition of the internationally acclaimed artist of The New York School, and will include paintings and works on paper from the 1940's through the 1980's.
Paintings and Works On Paper
FROM THE ESTATE
Brian Gross Fine Art proudly announces the inauguration of its newly
expanded gallery space at 49 Geary Street on Thursday, November 6, with an
exhibition of the American modern master, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992).
This will be the first Bay Area exhibition of the internationally acclaimed
artist of The New York School, and will include paintings and works on paper
from the 1940's through the 1980's.
The chronology of Pousette-Dart reads like postwar art history beginning
with an exhibition at the cooperative Artist's Gallery, NYC, in 1941, and
subsequent shows with legendary dealers Marian Willard, Peggy Guggenheim and
Betty Parsons. Introspective and less gregarious than many of The New York
School, Pousette-Dart was highly concerned with the spiritual and the role
of the unconscious. The youngest of the Abstract Expressionists, he drew
inspiration from Native American, African, and Oceanic art, as well as
European and American artistic trends and the writings of Freud and Jung.
In 1951, he was included in an historic photograph entitled The Irascibles,
depicting a group of abstract painters of The New York School that included
de Kooning, Gottlieb, Hofmann, Motherwell, Newman, Pollock, and Rothko among
others.
Richard Pousette-Dart's paintings and drawings have been exhibited
internationally in solo exhibitions organized by The Museum of Modern Art,
New York in 1969-70; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 1963,
1974, and 1998; the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1986; the
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana in 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York in 1997; and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany in 2001.
In BGFA's gallery expansion, it will be doubling its exhibition area,
providing a secondary space to be used for curatorial projects. During the
gallery renovation in October, hours will be limited. Please contact Tressa
Williams for further information or visuals.
Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5:30-7:30pm
Image: Richard Pousette-Dart, Black and White Fugue, 1979-1980; acrylic on linen; 42-1/2 x 85-1/2 inches
Brian Gross Fine Art
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 788-1050
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:30am-5:30pm, Saturday 11am-5pm