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Email PageDrop - Out
December 1, 2007- January 12, 2008
Reception: December 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tom Wesselmann
Yvon Lambert Gallery
550 W 21st StYvon Lambert New York is pleased to announce the first exhibition of paintings by Tom Wesselmann at the gallery in collaboration with the Estate of Tom Wesselmann. Yvon Lambert New York will exhibit 11 shaped canvases from a body of work the artist first started in 1967 and continued through the 1980!s. The exhibition continues at the Maxwell Davidson Gallery with studies and works on paper from this series. This exhibition runs from December 1st, 2007 – January 18th, 2008.
Drop – Out will focus on paintings which are a continuation of the artist!s exploration of the shaped canvas. Wesselmann first developed these ideas in 1967 with the Smoker series, then further explored them in his Bedroom and Seascape series. The paintings are large in scale, with close up views and a concentration on body parts. The figure is implied through negative space and the emphasis is not on the figure, but on the surrounding elements. The series began with the significant Seascape #31, from 1967, which is included in this exhibition. In 1983 Wesselmann returned to the shape of the 1967 canvas in Bedroom Painting #63, a development which is traced within this exhibition through a rare self portrait from the same year, Self Portrait While Drawing.
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany these exhibitions with an essay by John Wilmerding, emeritus Professor of American art, Princeton University. The essay is an excerpt from the forthcoming monograph on the artist to be published by Rizzoli Publications in 2008.
Art Reviews of Drop - Out
| New York Times December 28, 2007 | Karen Rosenberg | "Shaped canvases tend to be associated with abstract painting, namely the structural exaggeration of Frank Stella and the playful abstraction of Elizabeth Murray. For Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004), they were a new and provocative approach to the figure. In the early ’80s, returning to the genesis of an idea from the late ’60s, he made a series of paintings of the space enclosed by the leg, chest and arm of a reclining woman. Called the “Drop-Outs,” this body of work pushed the figures of his ’60s-era “Great American Nudes” right off the canvas...." |
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