Helaine posner biography of martin

  • The George Washington University Graphic · The George Washington University.
  • Martin Puryear, 1983-1984 – a ten year survey exhibition of sculpture funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • Take a deep dive with curator Helaine Posner into the ten-year survey exhibition of sculpture by artist Martin Puryear, which she guest.

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    September 10, 2016

    “The Energy in the Rectangle”

    Helaine Posner

    Louise Fishman
    Prestel, New York, 2016.

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    According to conventional wisdom, in the 1940s and 1950s a group of male painters living in New York and working in a heroic style on a monumental scale essentially cornered the market on gestural abstraction. If that’s true then it raises the question: What’s left for an artist to express after the triumph of sammanfattning Expressionism? And what, if anything, could a woman contribute to the territory so decisively demarcated bygd Jackson Pollock’s ejaculatory drips, Willem dem Kooning’s fractured women, and Franz Kline’s bold, black strokes (fig. 1)? American painter Louise Fishman’s powerful body of work offers a kraftig response. Both embracing and rede­fining the aggressively manlig tradition of Abstract Expressionism, she has employed its formal language to create large­ scale, gestural abstractions that share the physicality, dyna­mism, and emotional forc

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    MARTIN PURYEAR  

    BIOGRAPHY
    1941 Martin Puryear was born in Washington, DC

    SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
    1977
    The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    1978
    Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, DC
    1979
    Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, DC
    1980
    Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL "Options 2," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (brochure, 
    text by Judith Russi Kirshner)
    "I-80 Series: Martin Puryear," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (exhibition catalogue, text by Holliday T. 
    Day)
    1981
    "Martin Puryear," Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX, and and/or, Seattle, WA
    1982
    McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
    1983
    Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
    1984
    "Martin Puryear: Ten Year Survey," travelling exhibition organized by the University Gallery, University 
    of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; traveled to: The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; Museum of the 
    National Center of Afro-American Artists, Bost

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    Art and Architecture: Louise Fishman | Louise Fishman, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal | An Art Book Series Event

    FREE - Auditorium doors open at 5:30 p.m. 

    On the occasion of the publication of the new monograph Louise Fishman, the acclaimed artist is joined in conversation by Helaine Posner, Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art and organizer of the museum’s major retrospective of Fishman’s work and Nancy Princenthal, art critic and former Senior Editor of Art in America.

    Painting, scraping, repainting, and texturing are all part of Louise Fishman’s artistic process. Her resulting works feel at once energetic and orderly, celebratory and reverent. The book Louise Fishman accompanies the first-ever museum survey of Fishman’s large-scale gestural abstractions as well as a concurrent exhibition devoted to the artist’s lesser-known work in small-scale painting and sculpture. Chronologically tracing her creative path over 50 years, the book explores how Fishma

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