Jack Tworkov "True and False"
Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St.)
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Jack Tworkov was among the central figures of New York's Abstract Expressionist school. Throughout his more than five-decade career, he created paintings and drawings distinguished by their intensity of gesture and intellectual rigor. In the period covered by the exhibition (1960-1975), Tworkov began to move away from his interest in the purely gestural composition and toward a more analytic and geometrically based form of painting. During this time (1963-1969) Tworkov was also Chairman of the Art Department at Yale University. His students included Chuck Close, Jennifer Bartlett and Michael Craig-Martin among others.
The exhibition includes examples from several bodies of work, including the "Variables" series, developed in the early 1960s. The canvases from this series are divided into six sections, each of which are handled as individual compositions.
[Image: Jack Tworkov "Rime" (1966) Oil on canvas, 95 x 53 in.]
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from January 15, 2010 to February 20, 2010