Theodoros Stamos and John Zinsser “RE-IRASCIBLES”
Graham
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GRAHAM presents RE-IRASCIBLES on view with works by Theodoros Stamos and John Zinsser.
Stamos (1922-1997) was the youngest of the group of New York abstract expressionists who came to be called “The Irascibles.” Zinsser (b. 1961) is a painter and writer known for his interest in post-war American abstraction.
A survey of selected significant historical Stamos works will be paired against new paintings by Zinsser that respond directly to Stamos’s imagery and methodologies. An accompanying series of word-based drawings by Zinsser also provide a narrative art historical bridge of reference between the two.
The exhibition addresses questions of how iconic artworks are received by contemporary viewers. Appropriation and visual quotation are central to the practice of today’s abstract painters, but here this dialogue is sharpened, as Zinsser takes Stamos’s ideographic formats of “sky,” “sun” and “field” to his own post-minimal and pop responses.
Stamos’s well-known storied biography, steeped in the lore of New York School artists and galleries of the 1940s-1980s, provides a dual mode of reference: as it frames the works included within the larger themes of mythology, romance and tragedy.
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Schedule
from February 26, 2015 to April 17, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-02-25 from 17:30 to 20:00