AN EXHITBITIION ORGANIZED BY THE AMERICAS SOCIETY ART GALLERY
May 18 - July 30, 2000
(March 20, 2000) The Americas Society Art Gallery is pleased to announce its Spring/Summer 2000 exhibition, Art of the Amen'cas from the Chase Manhattan Collection: Icon + Grid + Void. The Americas Society Art Gallery is open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. $3, $2 students and seniors, members free-of-charge.
The Chase Manhattan Collection, begun in 1959, now comprises one of the largest and finest corporate art collections in the world. In conjunction with a show of masterworks from the collection at the Queens Museum of Art entitled Art at Work (May 23-October 1, 2000), the Americas Society will present a thematic exhibition of 24 paintings, sculpture, and photographs drawn from the bank's holdings. These works by North, South, and Central American artists span the period since the collection's founding and represent three threads in the art of the last forty years. Icon denotes the representational image, often central and indelible, that has been a mainstay of contemporary art from Pop to Postmodernism. Grid is the modernist trope of intersecting perpendiculars that formally underlies diverse artistic concerns, an allover visual ordering. Void is the absence of the above, neither an overarching structure nor a fixed image, but either a lack or a rniasrnic overload of the visual. The exhibition will include works by Waltercio Caldas, Saint Clair Cernin, Antonio Dias, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Agnes Martin, Marta Minujin, Liliana Porter, Dorothea Rockburne, Carlos Rojas, Luiz Sacilotto, Andres Serrano, Meyer Vaisman, and Jeff Wall, among others.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Programming will explore the phenomena of private and public collecting practices. A panel discussion with experts in the field of institutional and corporate collecting, as well as one that will gather individual collectors and patrons may form part of the program schedule.
CURATOR: Joseph R. Wolin, Curator of the Americas Society Art Gallery