Facebook
Twitter
Google+
Email
“More often than not, you have to assume that there is some sort of relationship between radical gestures in art, and radical gestures in the world.” —Rashid Johnson
Well, we loved it, but Warhol Mania came to be exhausting. If we’re tired, we can’t imagine how tired the Whitney is, so we don’t blame them for going to the well of their extraordinary collection for their new group show – especially when the results are this eye-opening and important. Curated by David Breslin, Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s is on view now through August 2019. The exhibition explores the myriad ways in which artists experimenting in new ways with color in painting in the 1960s often meant far more than an aesthetic exercise.
Spilling Over includes works recently acquired for the Whitney by Emma Amos and Kay WalkingStick, as well as paintings collected when new by artists such as Alvin Loving, Ellsworth Kelly, Miriam Schapiro, and Frank Stella, among others. In this video from the Whitney, Breslin talks about the exhibition, artist Rashid Johnson talks about the impact of Sam Gilliam’s work in the exhibition, and Kay WalkingStick talks about her own work on view.
