GROUP EXHIBITION

Minimal-Maximal traces the vibrant tendencies of non-objective painting from significant mid-century examples, such as Grace Hartigan’s The Tourist (1965) to contemporary works like Joan Snyder’s monumental Women Make Lists (2004). These full, colorful canvases are contrasted by prominent minimal works such as Larry Bell’s Untitled (1967), a glass and metal-bound cube, whose simple geometry engages a visual interplay between light, form, and perspective. The reductive language of Bell finds common ground in contemporary works by the geometric painter and sculptor Jesús Rafael Soto and textile artist Hiroko Takeda.

Organized by Hayden Dunbar and Benjamin R. Hunter, Minimal-Maximal brings together twentieth century and twenty-first century approaches to abstraction at their most extreme poles – refinement and expression. This presentation includes major works by Larry Bell, Lynda Benglis, Lynne Drexler, John Dubrow, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Minjung Kim, Park Kwang-Jin, Kenneth Noland, Joe Ramirez, Joan Snyder, Jesús Rafael Soto, Frank Stella, Hiroko Takeda, and Joan Witek.