James Bishop Exhibition
David Zwirner 20th Street
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David Zwirner presents an exhibition of paintings by American artist James Bishop. From the early 1960s to the 1980s, Bishop produced a singular body of paintings on canvas that reflect the artist’s persistent exploration of light, color, scale, and geometric form. The exhibition spans over two decades of Bishop’s output, ending in 1986, when he turned exclusively to smaller scale paintings on paper. Providing a rare opportunity to view the artist’s work, this will be his first solo exhibition in New York since 1987.
Throughout his career, Bishop has engaged European and American traditions of post-War abstraction, including monochrome and Color Field painting, while developing a subtle, poetic, and highly unique visual language of his own. Alternating between—and at times interweaving—painting and drawing, Bishop’s works explore the ambiguities and paradoxes of material opacity and transparency, flatness and spatiality, as well as linear tectonics and loosely composed forms. Privileging the nuanced and expressive qualities of color and scale, Bishop’s luminous works have been described by American poet and art critic John Ashbery as “half architecture, half air.
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Schedule
from September 06, 2014 to October 25, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00