Flip Your Field: Abstract Art From the Collection

June 9 - September 2, 2012

This is the inaugural exhibition of a new series of exhibitions to be curated by UM faculty. Entitled Flip Your Field, this series asks these guest curators to consider artwork outside their field of specialization from UMMA's renowned collections to challenge their own thinking as well as that of UMMA's audiences. Celeste Brusati, Professor of History of Art, Women's Studies, and Art and Design, an expert in the visual art and culture of the Netherlands from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, has gathered a compelling group of images by such titans of twentieth-century abstraction as Lee Bontecou, Helen Frankenthaler, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, and Antonio Tàpies, as well as works by many other unexpected artists.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Images

1953/2.9
László Moholy-Nagy, Abstract Composition (Abstrakte Komposition), ca. 1925, watercolor, India ink, and collage on off-white paper, Museum purchase, 1953/2.9

1957/1.111
Gabor Peterdi, Dark Horizon, 1954, color engraving, Museum purchase, 1957/1.111

1959/1.107
Fayga Ostrower, Composition, 1958, color woodblock, Museum purchase, 1959/1.107

1964/1.116
Garo Zareh Antreasian, Untitled, 1962, embossed color lithograph, Museum purchase, 1964/1.116

Timeline

Exhibition Timeline

SatJun 9
Exhibition Opens
Sat
Jul 14
Abstract Art from UMMA's Collection
1:00pm4:00pm
Artmaking / Exhibitions Related
SunSep 2
Exhibition Closes
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