Victoria Miro 14
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Alice Neel
dal 22/5/2007 al 20/7/2007

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22/5/2007

Alice Neel

Victoria Miro 14, London

The exhibition includes paintings from the 1940s to the 1980s and shows subjects ranging from infancy to old age. The artist, the foremost American portraitist and renowned painter, is an acute observer of character and paints with an honest eye and trenchant wit, her paintings of mothers and babies revealing her deep understanding of their close bond. On the occasion the exhibition space opens to the public for the first time.


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The Cycle of Life

A new 9000 sq ft exhibition space - Victoria Miro 14 - opens to the public for the first time with an exhibition of work by the renowned American painter Alice Neel.

Victoria Miro 14 was completed in October 2006. The new 9000 sq ft private exhibition space, adjacent to the original gallery, now opens to the public for the first time with the second ever presentation of Alice Neel's work to be held in Europe.

Alice Neel (1900 - 1984) was the foremost American portraitist and one of the most engaging painters of her times. Her exhibition at Victoria Miro 14 includes paintings from the 1940s to the 1980s and will show subjects ranging from infancy to old age. Neel was an acute observer of character and painted with an honest eye and trenchant wit. Her paintings of mothers and babies reveal her deep understanding of their close bond while her depictions of the elderly reveal an empathy for the changes in body and mind that accompany old age. In between she scrutinizes the vulnerability of the child, the gawkiness of adolescence, the energy of youth, the wisdom of middle age, and the serenity of later life. Few 20th century artists have documented the life cycle with as penetrating a gaze as Alice Neel.

Born near Philadelphia in 1900, Neel studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. A member of the Works Progress Administration Programme in the 1930s she became a painter with a strong social conscience and equally strong left-wing beliefs. These led her to move from the comfort of Greenwich Village to Spanish Harlem in pursuit of 'the truth' and there she painted casual acquaintances and people she encountered on the street among the immigrant community. A friend of left-wing writers and artists she was adopted as a feminist icon during the 1960s and 1970s, at which time she moved to the Upper West Side. Her engagement with the art world came in the form of a series of dynamic portraits of artists and curators many of which are now in major museum collections throughout the United States. In 1974 she presented a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, an event that was repeated in 2000, marking the centenary of her birth.

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