“Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s” Exhibition
The Drawing Center
[Image: Richard Pousette-Dart "Untitled [Mythic head of a Woman]" (1930) Ink on paper, 16 ¾ x 13 7/8 in. Courtesy of The Estate of the Artist. Photo by Kevin Noble.]
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This fall The Drawing Center presents Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s. the first in-depth museum consideration of Pousette-Dart’s drawings from the 1930s, a period when the artist pursued directly-carved sculpture, yet also painted, experimented with photography, and created numerous works on paper. The exhibition features approximately 100 works from this period including drawings, notebooks, and brasses. Many of the early drawings explore Pousette-Dart’s concerns about sculpture and working three-dimensionally. Others reference the figure through full-frontal or profile views as they consider space, orientation, and volume. Additionally, numerous studies allude to dance, animals, mythology, masks, and human heads. There are also several series of drawings and studies that accumulate abstract and geometric forms as his interest transitioned to working with the “flatter” brasses—small sculptures meant to be worn as pendants or held in the hand. These works presage many of the compositional strategies he employed in his later paintings from the 1940s. Curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director.
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Schedule
from October 02, 2015 to December 20, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-10-01 from 18:00 to 20:00