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Magnetic Fields : Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today

Title

Magnetic Fields : Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today / organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri ; essays by Erin Dziedzic and Melissa Messina, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Lilly Wei ; conversations by Nanette Carter, Allison Glenn, Gia M. Hamilton, Lauren Haynes, Sandra Jackson- Dumont, Michelle Perron, Alice Thorson, and Kathryn Wat ; with a foreword by Barbara O'Brien and Susan Fisher Sterling.

Publication

Kansas City, Missouri : Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, [2017]
©2017

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Description

142 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today' introduces the work of more than twenty exceptional artists in conversation with one another for the first time. With works in a range of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing, the exhibition showcases a diverse range of unique visual vocabularies within non-representational expression. By highlighting these artists? individual approaches to form, color, composition, material exploration and conceptual impetus within hard-edge and gestural abstraction, Magnetic Fields provides an expanded history of non-pictorial image and object-making. The exhibition not only celebrates these artists as leaders in the field, but also the enduring ability of abstraction to convey both personal iconography and universal themes.00Exhibition: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Kansas, Missouri (08.06. - 17.09.2017).

Alternative Title

Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Participating artists: Candida Alvarez, Betty Blayton, Chakaia Booker, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Nanette Carter, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Deborah Dancy, Abigail DeVile, Maren Hassinger, Jennie C. Jones, Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Howardena Pindell, Mavis PUsey, Shinique Smith, Gilda Snowden, Sylvia Snowden, Kianja Strobert, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Brenna Youngblood.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Magnetic fields, an introduction / Erin Dziedzic and Melissa Messina -- Black, woman, abstract artist / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Conversations. Lauren Haynes on Mavis Pusey -- Sandra Jackson-Dumont on Maren Hassinger -- Melissa Messina on Chakaia Booker -- Kathryn Wat on Lilian Thomas Burwell -- Alice Thorson on Sylvia Snowden -- Kindred : materializing representation in the abstract / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Conversations. Erin Dziedzic on Nannette Carter -- Nanette Carter on Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery -- Allison Glenn on Candida Alvarez -- Michelle Perron on Gilda Snowden -- Gia M. Hamilton on Deborah Dancy -- For women of color who have considered art in which abstraction is enough / Lilly Wei.

Call Number

Sc+ F 17-523

ISBN

9780996272834
0996272836

LCCN

2017026127

OCLC

975487882

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Publisher

Kansas City, Missouri : Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, [2017]

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Dziedzic, Erin, writer of introduction.

Messina, Melissa, writer of introduction.

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, organizer, host institution.

National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 17-523

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