"Dan Flavin/Josef Albers" Exhibition
Sandra Gering Gallery
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Pairing two highly influential artists of the 20th Century, the exhibition will allow the viewer to rediscover, evaluate and place into a new context these very diverse materializations of color and line. Though Albers and Flavin used vastly different approaches, both challenged the function of perception and went on to make significant contributions to the history of art. Albers, the Modernist, blurred the line between fine and applied art and employed traditional painting methods to conduct pioneering experiments in color theory and composition. Flavin, the Conceptualist, defied convention by using commercially available fluorescent lights and placing authenticity in the viewer's mind rather than the artist's hand. Both utilized architecture and the ability of the human eye to animate their color theories.
[Image: Josef Albers "Composure" (1937) Oil on masonite 31.5 x 36.5 in]
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Schedule
from May 04, 2008 to June 14, 2008