“Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now” Exhibition

Lisson Gallery (10th Avenue)

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Curated by Alex Glauber & Alex Logsdail

In September 1975, Artforum published a special issue on painting. In addition to articles such as “Painting and the Struggle for the Whole Self” and “Painting and Anti-Painting: A Family Quarrel” – in which Max Kozloff said “brush wielders were afflicted by a creative halitosis” – were the responses to a questionnaire polling 21 painters on the state and prospects of their chosen medium. This new exhibition aims to answer the Artforum questionnaire through an exploration of experimental painting practices starting in the 1970s and continuing to the present moment. The selected artists reveal how the pervasive antipathy towards painting perhaps afforded a greater degree of latitude whereby materiality, application, atypical support, performative impulse and format were all of a sudden in play.

Artists include Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Sadie Benning, Roy Colmer, Matt Conners, Mary Corse, Lucy Dodd, Guy Goodwin, Ron Gorchov, Ralph Humphrey, Al Loving, Israel Lund, Eric N. Mack, Dona Nelson, Joe Overstreet, Steven Parrino, Howardina Pindell, David Reed, Dorothea Rockburne, Ruth Root, Sean Scully, Joan Snyder, Ted Stamm, Stanley Whitney and Duane Zaloudek.

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