Barbara Rossi “Poor Traits”

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

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Lobby Gallery
This exhibition will mark Barbara Rossi’s (b. 1940) first museum exhibition in New York as well as the most significant presentation of her work since the early 1990s. “Poor Traits” will feature a selection of Rossi’s enigmatic and playful graphite and colored pencil drawings from the late 1960s and meticulously rendered reverse paintings on Plexiglas from the early 1970s. Rossi first exhibited her work in late-1960s Chicago, where she became associated with a number of young artists known as the Chicago Imagists who shared an interest in non-Western and popular imagery and the pursuit of vivid, figurative work often coupled with humorous gags or puns. Her delirious innovations, however, are idiosyncratic even among an eclectic set of peers. In her early drawings, Rossi turned inward to find a visual language independent of contemporary tendencies and art historical traditions. Mining her own unconscious in an open and spontaneous process, the artist’s semi-automatist approach yielded a surreal morphology in which sporadic figurative suggestions transform wandering lines into hallucinatory portraits. The exhibition is curated by Natalie Bell, Assistant Curator.

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from September 16, 2015 to January 17, 2016

Artist(s)

Barbara Rossi

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