NYAB Event - Wayne Thiebaud Exhibition

Wayne Thiebaud Exhibition

Allan Stone Projects

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Allan Stone Projects presents a major survey of paintings and works on paper by Wayne Thiebaud. Selected from the Allan Stone Collection, the exhibition will include over twenty works, some of which have never been publicly exhibited. Highlights include the vibrant pastel on paper, Cakes, 1967, a monumental figurative painting, Girl in Striped Blouse, 1973-75, and a rich oil painting, Sunglasses,1983-85. This will be the gallery’s 26th solo exhibition of Thiebaud’s work.

Since his first exhibition with the Allan Stone Gallery in 1962, Thiebaud has become one of the most prominent artists of our time. As his primary dealer, friend and collector for over forty years, Allan Stone celebrated Thiebaud’s range of style and subject matter, embracing his mastery of figuration, his inventive depictions of landscapes and cityscapes, and his nostalgic renderings of food and everyday objects.

Often categorized as a New York Pop artist, Thiebaud does not identify himself as such, having begun his paintings of quotidian American scenes in the mid 1950’s well before the explosion of Pop art. Mark Rosenthal, the author of this exhibition’s catalog, posits that Thiebaud has more in common with the traditions of Realism and Impressionism, nodding to masters like Eakins, Degas, and Cézanne in his modernist depictions of the American vernacular. Rosenthal observes that Thiebaud’s paintings are deceptively complex, as one begins to realize that his “evolution has not been a matter of one subject replacing the other, but a series of moves and returns so that each work is simply of a piece. Moreover, Thiebaud never stops intersecting with art history, whether vis-à-vis the modernist still life or an obsession with a single grand landscape.”* This exhibition affirms Wayne Thiebaud’s range of technique and ingenuity that distinguishes him as an exceptional American artist.