"ICON + GRID + VOID, Art of the Americas from the Chase Manhattan Collection"
2000-05-18 until 2000-07-30
Americas Society Art Gallery
New York, NY, USA United States of America

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 miasmic overload of the visual. The exhibition will include works by Waltercio Caldas, Saint Clair Cemin, 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.

CURATOR: Joseph R. Wolin, Curator of the Americas Society Art Gallery

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