"Present Tense" Exhibition
Spanierman Gallery
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"Present Tense" is an exhibition curated by the noted artists Don Christensen and Mary Heilmann, consisting of abstract works by fourteen contemporary artists. The works were selected on the basis of their ability to produce instant and visceral responses in the viewer, without the necessity of contextualization. The artists included share a preoccupation with eccentric structures and tend toward the use of unexpected materials and techniques. Working in the abstract formalist tradition, they seek new vocabulary and materials, redefining their boundaries, even to the degree of leaving the confines of the canvas altogether.(...)
Diverse in the methods by which they were created, the works in Present Tense reveal the boundless potential now associated with abstraction and demand our immediate engagement with the objects before us.
Media
Schedule
from June 12, 2008 to August 02, 2008
Artist(s)
Polly Apfelbaum, Don Christensen, Mary Heilmann et al.