| This exhibition was drawn from Wynn
Kramarsky’s
prominent collection of twentieth-century drawings and
featured approximately 150 works by well-known and emerging
artists from the last four decades. Categories in the exhibition
such as Drawing and Installation, Texture/Material, Process
as Subject Matter, The Structure of Language, The Concept
of Time, The Concept of Space in Relationship to Architecture,
Site/Non-Site, and Music/Film emphasized the interdisciplinary
approach of many of the artists included who are also exceptional
sculptors, painters, installation and video artists.
Philosopher and critic Arthur Danto wrote of artworks that
exist as sets or series, “the fact that each is part
of the series must enter somehow as part of the experience
of each.” This exhibition provided an unequalled opportunity
to examine Danto’s premise on the complexity of making
and viewing works of art that consist of multiple images.
Focused on a single medium and period—drawings from
1960 to the present—the exhibition delved into the
concepts of narrative, suite and sequence as explored in
contemporary art. Artists represented in the show ranged
from the emerging
to the canonical: including serial images by Jill
Baroff, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Stefana McClure, Tatsuo
Miyajima,
and Richard Serra, among others.
Organized by the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, this
exhibition will travel nationally and internationally. A
concise catalogue includes contributions by young scholars
and was produced
in conjunction with Wellesley College students. |