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Indepth Arts News:
"On Paper II: 50 Works from the Collection"
2001-02-10 until 2001-05-06
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA,
USA
The varied uses of paper as a medium for
contemporary artists is the focus of On Paper
II, an exhibition on view in the museum's
Forum Gallery. Some fifty recently acquired
works on paper in the museum's collection
have been created from methods as ancient
as woodblock printing to the digitally captured
and inkjet printed images of today.
Three early Philip Pearlstein drawings depict
the daily life of American GIs during World War
II and illustrate drawing's time-honored role in
a fresh and intimate way. Prints in this show
range from wood engravings to lithographs,
linocuts and serigraphs. Examples include
Vija Celmins wood engraving Ocean Surface
2000, 2000, Helen Frankenthaler's
Madame Butterfly, 2000, a woodcut in three
parts, and Brice Marden's Untitled, 2000, a
series of seven prints, which includes
two-color etchings and four-color lithographs.
Kara Walker's Emancipation Approximation,
1999-2000, first seen as a work of paper in
the 1999 Carnegie International, has been
made into a series of serigraphs; two are on
view.
Photography, today, is the most widespread
form of art on paper. Twelve color
photographs from Olafur Eliasson's 1999
Iceland Series and Chuck Close's Self
Portrait, 1999, are in this show. An earlier
work by Close, Lorna I, is also on view.
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