James McGarrell "Window Jazz Inventions: Paintings 2005–2009"
ACA Galleries
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ACA Galleries presents its first exhibition of paintings by James McGarrell. Known since the 1960s for his complex, figurative canvases McGarrell has moved in a new direction informed by Indian classical ragamala and twentieth century jazz. For him this means an immersion in “the painting in the painting.” As McGarrell explains, “it parallels the way a Lester Young improvisation might quote, riff on or entirely depart from the melody.”
His work has been included in five Whitney Museum Annuals and Biennials, two Carnegie International Exhibitions, Documenta in Kassel, Germany and the American Pavilion of the 1968 Venice Biennale. His works are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Chicago Art Institute, IL; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; Hamburg Museum, Germany; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA.
He has been the recipient of both a Guggenheim and a Rockefeller Institute Bellagio Fellowship. In 1995 he received the Jimmy Ernst Award for lifetime achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2008 the New York Community Trust awarded him The Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Prize in visual arts.
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Schedule
from December 12, 2009 to January 30, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-12-12 from 15:00 to 18:00