Wayne Thiebaud “In Black and White”
Allan Stone Projects
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Allan Stone Projects presents Wayne Thiebaud: In Black and White. Selected from the Allan Stone Collection, the exhibition will include 20 unique works on paper from 1961-1996, spanning the artist’s full range of subjects, including food, objects, urban and rural landscapes, and figures. The exhibition will be accompanied by a hard-bound, fully illustrated catalog. Carter Ratcliff has written: “rendered in black and white and all the intervening tones, Thiebaud’s drawings lay bare the formal architecture that endows even his most lushly chromatic images with their startling clarity. He is a brilliant draftsman.” The works in this exhibition highlight Thiebaud’s signature motifs and convey the range of process, ingenuity and specificity that distinguishes each of Thiebaud’s works.
Thiebaud has been associated with the Pop art movement of the 1960s primarily because his most celebrated imagery originated from mass-produced commercial goods. However, the reverence and sense of nostalgia with which he conveys his subjects defies such facile categorization. “Thiebaud’s method… has the effect not of eliminating the Pop resonance of his subjects but of slowing down and chastening the associations they evoke, so that a host of ambivalent feelings—nostalgic and satiric and elegiac—can come back later, calmed down and contemplative: enlightened.”(1)
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from October 23, 2014 to December 19, 2014