- To Have It About You: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
To Have It About You: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23, 2009 – January 10, 2010.
- Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota
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Daryl Trivieri is a pioneering electronic musician as well as a painter. His precisely painted images include incongruous details—markings such as letters and numbers. These markings and the quasi-mathematical titles of his works suggest the constructed, unreal nature of his seeminigly realistic representations.
Study for The Collectors (both)
Will Barnet, known for his simple, elegant figures, made several portraits of collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel.
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Robert Barry was an early practitioner of what became known as conceptual art. In conceptual art, the concepts or ideas take precedence over aesthetic concerns or use of traditional materials of visual art.
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Barry recorded this work on a two-sided audio cassette. The list of words uttered in the recording are identical on each side except for the inclusion of one extra word on side B: the word “soon.”
Barry is associated with the art movement known as conceptual art. In conceptual art, the concepts or ideas take precedence over aesthetic concerns or use of traditional materials of visual art.
Barry is often referred to as a language artist. In an interview with Catherine Speath in March of 2009 he stated:
I would even hesitate to call myself an artist who uses language. I use words. Words as objects, and of course these words are loaded and meant to grab the viewer in a way that they can interact with them - if they choose to do so. Words come from us. They don't exist in the world outside of us. They speak to us.
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Lisa Bradley’s abstract imagery creates a feeling of suspended time or as one critic commented “moments between pulsations.” Her interest in stillness and a sense of the eternal informs all of her work. These works dating from 1985 to 1990 are examples of such work by the artist.
Untitled (gestural abstract painting on paper)
Michael Goldberg was an important member of the New York, or abstract expressionist, school, a group of artists that formed in the years immediately after World War II and came to international recognition in the 1950s. These artists believed painting to be an act of personal expression and freedom.
Goldberg, who lived and worked longer than many of his contemporaries, provided a link to abstract expressionism and its values for the next generation of artists in New York, many of whom rejected or at least revised its major tenets.
Goldberg taught at New York’s School of the Visual Arts until his death in 2007. After 1980, he split his time between studios in New York and Spannocchia, Tuscany. The colors, history, and architecture of that Italian region were extremley influential on his late work. The work seen here is an example of that late work.
Untitled (brown-blue-yellow geometric abstraction)
This work combines painting, drawing, and textural elements to explore the boundaries between painting, collage, and sculpture.