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Since 1969, when it made creative use of the old Romanesque post office building, until today, with a spacious, well-lighted vaulted two-story addition, the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA) has hosted many memorable exhibits: the meta-outsider images of Martn Ramrez, the fantastical collages of Jess, the illuminated installations of Jennifer Steinkamp and, most befitting for Silicon Valley, Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon. The museum concentrates on California and West Coast artists and boasts a strong permanent collection that can be seen in rotating shows; its holdings are especially deep in the Bay Area s abstract expressionist painters of the post-World War II era.
Organized by Rory Padeken, curator
The circle and the square. Verticals, swoops, and folds. Flat planes and sensuous surfaces. Colors bright and vibrant. During the late 1950s and 60s, artists began to diverge from the painterly, gestural approaches of Abstract Expressionism in favor of what the American art critic Clement Greenberg in 1964 called post-painterly abstraction. Artists moved in a variety of directions, some in pursuit of paintings pure in color and open in composition while others toward structured, linear designs using familiar geometric shapes. Rejecting a loose application of paint, these artists stained their unprimed canvases or created flat planes of color devoid of any distinctive mark making.
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The Fabric Workshop and Museum opens Hard/Cover
Installation view.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.-The Fabric Workshop and Museum is presenting Hard/Cover, on view from April 9 to September 26, 2021. A collaboration with Philadelphias Clay Studio, the exhibition consists of works marking turning points in the respective creative processes of past and current FWM Artists-in-Residence: Louise Bourgeois (19112010), Viola Frey (19332004), Toshiko Takaezu (19222011), Venturi, Scott Brown, & Associates (founded 1980), Betty Woodman (19302018), Woody De Othello (Oakland, CA), Jane Irish (Philadelphia, PA), Barrow Parke (Queens, NY), and Shino Takeda (Brooklyn, NY).
Hard/Cover looks closely at the relationship between time, process, and space in developing an interdisciplinary practice. Framed by celebrated works from past Artists-in-Residence working at FWM in the late 1980s and early 90s, as well as tableaus and scenes created by contemporary artists, the exhibition considers how c