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Email PageIn the Abstract: Works from 1950 to 2004
September 5, 2006- October 7, 2006
Reception: September 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Beatrice Riese
A.I.R. Gallery
511 W 25th StBEATRICE RIESE was born in the Netherlands in 1917. She spent her childhood in Germany until her family fled the Nazi regime to France, where she enrolled at the Paris Art School and where she received her Baccalauréat. After the Nazi invasion of France, Riese emigrated to the United States. Here she continued her art studies, first at Virginia Commonwealth University (and classes with Clyfford Still), then in New York. For the final fourteen years of her life, Riese was president of the organization American Abstract Artists. She had her first solo exhibition in 1956 and continued to exhibit widely until her death, in April 2004.
In New York for more than forty years, Riese produced the geometric abstractions which have quietly entered the collections of more than fifty museums—among them the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Riese had a sure hand and a sensibility informed by immersion in the art of her times and places, as well as in the arts of other eras and cultures. Come see her sophisticated works on paper and canvas—works with a distinctive personality that is serious-playful, complex-direct, intense-charming.
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