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Pace Gallery - Richard Pousette-Dart

Pace Gallery, Palo Alto. October 23rd - Dec 23rd, 2020

229 Hamilton Ave. Palo Alto

https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/richard-pousette-dart-5/

https://www.pacegallery.com/journal/richard-pousette-dart-part-and-whole-jeffrey-katzin/

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Richard Pousette-Dart, Radiance Number 8 (Imploding Light Red), 1973–74 © 2020 Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Press: https://www.pacegallery.com/media/documents/20201020_RPD_PA_Final.pdf

Pace Gallery London - Richard Pousette-Dart - Works 1940-1992

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Jan 18th 2019 through Feb 20th 2019.

https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/12972/works-1940-1992

Pace Gallery will present the first exhibition of works by Richard Pousette-Dart at 6 Burlington Gardens. Works 1940-1992 will be on view from 18 January 2019 to 20 February 2019. It will follow Richard Pousette-Dart: Beginnings, an exhibition presented at Kettle’s Yard until 6 January 2019. A selection of works on paper will be exhibited for the first time.

London

6 Burlington Gardens

London W1S 3ET

Tel: +44 (0)20 3206 7600

Tues-Sat 10-6

Richard Pousette-Dart: Beginnings - A Young Abstract Expressionist in New York

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Kettle’s Yard - University of Cambridge - October 23rd 2018 - January 6th 2019

https://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/events/richard-pousette-dart-beginnings/

Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street 

Cambridge CB3 0AQ

kettlesyard.co.uk

Richard Pousette-Dart, Notebook B-114 (Knights of Pythias), 1950s (with drawings from the early 1940s), artist’s notebook, mixed media

Richard Pousette-Dart, Notebook B-114 (Knights of Pythias), 1950s (with drawings from the early 1940s), artist’s notebook, mixed media

1,000 Words: Readings from Independent Artists' Archives

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Dedalus Foundation

25 East 21st Street, Fourth Floor

April 21, 2017, 10:30am-1:00pm  RSVP required - dedalusfoundation.org

This event features readings of poetry, letters, interviews and visual texts from leading independent artists' archives. Presentations include a staged reading of the 1954 legal case: Barnett Newman vs. Ad Reinhardt and College Art Association; highlights from 15 years of artist conversations with The Brooklyn Rail; and selected readings from the archives of The Willem de Kooning Foundation; The Hedda Sterne Foundation; The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; The Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation; The Reversible Destiny Foundation and others.

Presented by the Dedalus Foundation and the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation in association with The Brooklyn Rail.

 

Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s » The Drawing Center

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October 2 through December 20, 2015

Main Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 6–8pm

The Drawing Center will present Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s the first in-depth consideration of Richard Pousette-Dart’s drawings from the 1930s, a period when the artist pursued directly-carved sculpture, yet also painted, experimented with photography, and created numerous works on paper. These early drawings explore Pousette-Dart’s concerns about sculpture and working three-dimensionally, and many reference the figure through full-frontal or profile views as they consider space, orientation, and volume. Additionally, numerous studies allude to dance, animal forms, masks, and heads, and many examples offer an accumulation of abstract and geometric forms, particularly for his brasses—small sculptures meant to be “held in the hand.” The exhibition will include approximately eighty works from the 1930s including drawings, notebooks, and brasses. Curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director.

Best known as a founding member of the New York School of painting, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) initially pursued a career as a sculptor. The son of Nathaniel Pousette, a painter, art director, educator, and art writer, and Flora Louise Dart, a poet and musician, Pousette-Dart was raised in an environment surrounded by music, poetry, and the visual arts, and began drawing and painting by the age of eight. Introduced to African, Oceanic, and Native American art by his father, Pousette-Dart made frequent visits to the Museum of Natural History as a young man. In 1938, he forged a close friendship with John Graham, whose writings were closely aligned with his own interests in spiritual concerns and so-called primitive art. Throughout the 1930s, Pousette-Dart was most entranced by the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, whose abstract sculptures, drawings, and forms in brass greatly informed the orientation of the young American artist.

ABOUT RICHARD POUSETTE-DART
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on June 8, 1916, Richard Pousette-Dart was raised in Westchester County, New York. He briefly attended Bard College but left to pursue art on his own in New York City where he became part of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. During his career, Pousette-Dart created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches. In 1982, Pousette-Dart was chosen by the International Committee of the Venice Biennale to exhibit in the main pavilion. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including the Whitney Museum of American Art (1963, 1974, 1998); Museum of Modern Art (1969); Metropolitan Museum of Art (1997); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy (2007), and most recently, Full Circle: Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2014).

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Thursday, December 10 at 6:30 pm
Catalog essayists, Charles Duncan and Lowery Stokes Sims, discuss the works of Richard Pousette-Dart from the 1930s.

PUBLICATION
To accompany Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s, The Drawing Center will produce an extensively illustrated four-color Drawing Papers featuring an introduction by Drawing Center Executive Director Brett Littman and essays by Charles Duncan, Executive Director of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation and Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator Emerita of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. The catalogue will be sold through The Drawing Center’s bookstore and website, and be distributed by Distributed Art Publishers.

CREDITS
Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s, is made possible by the support of The Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart and Pace Gallery.

ABOUT THE DRAWING CENTER
The Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan’s SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art and creative thought. Its activities, which are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, include exhibitions; Open Sessions, a curated artist program encouraging community and collaboration; the Drawing Papers publication series; and education and public programs.

LOCATION, HOURS & ACCESSIBILITY
35 Wooster Street between Broome and Grand Streets in SoHo, New York.
Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday 12pm–6pm, Thursday, 12pm–8pm.
Tickets: $5 Adults, $3 Students and seniors, Children under 12 are free, and free admission Thursdays 6-8pm.

The Drawing Center is wheelchair accessible.

212.219.2166 | info@drawingcenter.org | drawingcenter.org

Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions » The Morgan Library & Museum

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February 13 through May 24, 2015

This exhibition marks the 10th anniversary of the Morgan Library & Museum‘s pivotal decision to collect and exhibit modern and contemporary drawings. Long noted for its holdings of Old Master drawings, the Morgan over the last decade has been able to acquire hundreds of exceptional works by some of the greatest artists of our time. The show will include more than ninety drawings created between 1900 and 2013 by artists from Matisse, Mondrian, and Schiele to Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Twombly, and—more recently—Kippenberger and Dumas.

Curated by Isabelle Dervaux, who has guided the Morgan’s acquisitions and exhibition program in this area since her appointment as the first curator of modern and contemporary drawings at the Morgan in 2005, the show will propose a reflection on twentieth-century drawing, looking notably at the characteristics that define its modernity in relation to the historical tradition.

Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions is made possible by the Ricciardi Family Exhibition Fund and the Rita Markus Fund for Exhibitions.

Richard Pousette-Dart’s Passacaglia, 1941–42 will be included in this exhibition.

Image Caption:
Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), No Thank You! (Study), 1964, graphite and colored pencil on wove paper, The Morgan Library & Museum. Gift of James and Katherine Goodman, 2011.40. Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2013. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.

From Picasso to Fontana » Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

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FROM PICASSO TO FONTANA — COLLECTING MODERN AND POSTWAR ART IN THE EISENDRATH YEARS, 1960-1968

January 23, 2015 through April 13, 2015

In the 1960s works by some of the most significant European artists of the first half of the twentieth century—including Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as seminal contemporary figures, such as Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Pierre Soulages, and Antoni Tàpies—were donated to or purchased for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (then the Washington University Gallery of Art). William N. Eisendrath, Jr., served as curator and later the first director of the Museum during this period, shepherding the collection as it grew to include over fifty new acquisitions of European modernism and cutting-edge post-World War ll abstraction. Among the works that entered the collection at this time is Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Variation “N” (1955), one of a series of fifteen paintings that Picasso made after Eugène Delacroix’s well-known painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834) in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. A gift of Etta Steinberg to commemorate the 1960 dedication of Washington University’s Steinberg Hall, it demonstrated the Museum’s commitment to collecting contemporary European trends.

Building on the legacy of collecting and exhibiting art of the time established by his predecessors H. W. Janson and Frederick Hartt, Eisendrath presented a series of landmark international loan exhibitions that reinforced the significance of European and American modernism, including exhibitions of the work of Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. Under his leadership, the Museum also hosted traveling exhibitions of some of the most experimental art of the post-World War ll period, bringing the work of a new generation of European and American abstract artists to the contemporary scene in St. Louis. These exhibitions encouraged donations of both European modernism and postwar abstraction by many prominent St. Louis collectors—including Morton D. May, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., the Sydney M. Shoenberg family, Etta Steinberg, and Florence and Richard K. Weil, among others—significantly enriching the Museum’s collection. Part of a series of exhibitions looking at the development of the Kemper Art Museum’s collection in the 1940s, the 1950s, and now the 1960s, this exhibition presents, on view together for the first time, the seminal artworks that entered the collection under Eisendrath’s leadership.

Richard Pousette-Dart’s painting Blue Presence (1958) is included in this exhibition.

Support for the exhibition is provided by the William T. Kemper Foundation, the Hortense Lewin Art Fund, the Yeatman Fund, and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Image credit
Pablo Picasso, Les femmes d’Alger (Women of Algiers), Variation “N”, 1955. Oil on canvas, 45 x 57 5/8″. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Steinberg Fund, 1960. © 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Richard Pousette-Dart » Pace Gallery, Chelsea » Extended through February 14, 2015

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We are pleased to announce that Richard Pousette-Dart, an exhibition on view at Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street in New York, has been extended through February 14, 2015. The exhibition features works examining the artist’s use of geometric imagery from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s.

Richard Pousette-Dart: An Expanded Consideration » New York Studio School

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Public Panel Discussion: Wednesday, December 3, 2014

This discussion coincides with the fall 2014 exhibitions: Absence/Presence: Richard Pousette-Dart as Photographer at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY; Full-Circle: Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the artist’s inaugural exhibition at Pace Gallery, Chelsea.

Debra Bricker Balken:  Independent Curator and Writer.  Clark Senior Fellow, Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow and Recipient of an Art Writers Grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts for a book she is completing on Harold Rosenberg for the University of Chicago Press.  Her numerous publications include Arthur Dove: A Retrospective; Philip Guston’s Poor Richard; Abstract Expressionism; and John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury.

Charles H. Duncan:  Executive Director, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.   Publications include Absence/Presence: Richard Pousette-Dart as Photographer; The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913;Contributor to the Archives of American Art Journal, Brooklyn Rail andProvincetown Arts.

Valerie Hellstein: Willem de Kooning Writings Project.  Former postdoctoral fellow at The Phillips Collection and George Washington University.  Recent publications include the article “The Cage-iness of Abstract Expressionism” inAmerican Art. Forthcoming book on Abstract Expressionism and The Club.

Robert Hobbs: Scholar and curator.  Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Visiting Professor at Yale University.  Publications include monographs on Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Mark Lombardi, Robert Smithson, and Kara Walker.  He is the author, with Joanne Kuebler, of Richard Pousette-Dart (Indianapolis Museum of Art), the standard reference on the artist.

Lectures begin at 6:30pm, lectures are free and open to the public. Seating may be limited.

Website: New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture

Absence / Presence: The Photographs of Richard Pousette-Dart » Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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November 8, 2014 through January 4, 2015

Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-92) pursued photography as a serious visual enterprise throughout his long and distinguished career, creating brilliant nature studies and portraits, including those of New York School colleagues Mark Rothko, Betty Parsons, John Graham, Barnett Newman and Theodoros Stamos. In 1948 Pousette-Dart’s photographs were presented in a one-man show at the Betty Parsons Gallery and in 1953 honored by Photography Magazine, yet today this penetrating body of work is overshadowed by the artist’s immense achievements in painting. The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute is proud to organizeAbsence/Presence, the first museum survey of Pousette-Dart’s photographic work, which is available for tour to two additional museum venues. The exhibition draws together approximately 45 vintage photographs printed by the artist between the 1930s and 1980s, including unique examples with hand-applied pigments. Absence/Presence is additionally supported by archival display materials and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Absence/Presence demonstrates that Richard Pousette-Dart was a masterful, innovative photographer working in dialogue with avant-garde strains of the medium and the visual language of painting. Compelling images of fellow artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers reveal the rich intellectual milieu in which the artist flourished, his subjects often suspended within veils of timeless “presence” fashioned through multiple exposure and superimposition. Sumptuous photographic images of the natural world mirror the spiritual and transcendent properties of light, form and line at the heart of Pousette-Dart’s abstract painting. Presenting the extraordinary vision of one of the 20th century’s leading abstract artists as captured through the camera’s lens and further shaped by advanced darkroom approaches, Absence/Presenceilluminates Richard Pousette-Dart as a multifaceted Abstract Expressionist fascinated by the universal possibilities inherent at the nexus of hand and eye.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute is located at 310 Genesee Street, Utica, NY 13502.

Sponsored By Citizens Bank

Richard Pousette-Dart » Pace Gallery, Chelsea

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November 7, 2014 through January 10, 2015

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 2014, 6­–8 PM
Location: Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY

Pace Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition of work by Richard Pousette-Dart. The exhibition will feature twelve paintings and ten works on paper examining the artist’s use of geometric imagery from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. To accompany the exhibition, Pace will publish a catalogue featuring a new essay by critic Alex Bacon, quotations from the artist’s notebooks and excerpts of scholarly texts by Robert Hobbs, Sam Hunter, Carter Ratcliff, Barbara Rose, Philip Rylands, Martica Sawin, Lowery Stokes Sims and Robert Storr.

The exhibition focuses on this period of Pousette-Dart’s work and attests to his lifelong and unflinching belief in art as a vital force of life. He wrote of his art as “a quest for reality; not the obvious surface reality of outer forms but the related continuing realities of all the sights and sounds, sensations, dreams, memories…the intuitive visions that are part of the daily life of all of us.”

The exhibition explores Pousette-Dart’s use of geometric imagery, in particular the rectangle and the circle, which he believed to be universal symbols of cosmic forces. Pousette-Dart applied his paint in impasto points, creating thick layers over several applications. This technique rendered his forms with a “dynamic edge of creation” or “trembling edge of awareness.” “In Pousette-Dart’s mind the edge is more than the formal fact of the separation between forms within a painting,” wrote Lowery Stokes Sims. “It is a metaphor for the boundaries, the fragile point of balance, between opposites, which are mutable and in constant flux.”

The constellation of gestures in Pousette-Dart’s paintings—what he called presences—generated what he viewed as the works’ transcendental potential. “Art reveals the significant life, beauty of all forms—it uplifts, transforms it into the exalted realm of reality wherein its pure contemplative poetic being takes place—wherein art’s transcendental language of form, spirit, harmony means one universal eternal presence,” he wrote.

The exhibition will be on view at Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY from November 7, 2014 through January 10, 2015.

Making/Breaking Traditions: Teachers of Ai Weiwei » The Art Students League of New York

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October 20, 2014 through November 9, 2014

When Ai Weiwei enrolled at The Art Students League from 1983-86, he encountered a multi-generational community of dedicated teachers and students, deeply rooted in the mid -twentieth century avant-garde. After moving to the United States in 1981, and studying briefly at Parsons School of Design, Weiwei began taking classes with League instructors Richard Pousette-Dart, Bruce Dorfman, and Knox Martin. Featuring Weiwei’s work alongside his instructors and their teachers Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, this exhibition, Making/Breaking Traditions: Teachers of Ai Weiwei, explores the atmosphere at the League in the 1980s. Works in a variety of media trace creative lineages and raise questions about artistic tradition, self-expression, and creative freedom.

Richard Pousette-Dart first came to the Art Students League in the late 1930s, attending open sketching sessions as a path to refining his sculpture. From 1980 to 1986 he returned to The League as an instructor, a role that made an impression on the young Ai Weiwei, who found inspiration in the teaching of the established painter.

Works on view include The Dance V, 1937 and Summer of Great Ochre, 1989-90, both courtesy of the Richard Pousette-Dart Estate. Also on view are archival materials, including a statement from Ai Weiwei to Richard Pousette-Dart, ca. 1982, lent by The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.

Full Circle: Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart » Philadelphia Museum of Art

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September 13, 2014 through November 30, 2014

Full Circle surveys the long and extremely prolific career of one of the twentieth century’s most creative draftsmen, Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916-1992). Focused on his works on paper, the exhibition explores his remarkably varied use of materials and techniques, which often involved layering and scraping, scribbling and dripping, dotting and blotting. Over the course of nearly seventy years, his imagery evolved through various approaches in an attempt “to express the spiritual nature of the universe.”

In the 1940s and 1950s, Pousette-Dart was associated with Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell, artists with whom he exhibited in New York galleries. During this period, he created densely layered, semiabstract images that incorporated pictographic, geometric, and organic shapes emerging among spontaneous markings and multiple layers of pigment. His methods included automatic drawing as well as layering and dripping paint, practices most associated with Pollock. He also painted small, glowing watercolors inspired by Byzantine mosaics and Gothic stained-glass windows. Forms from these early works–circles and concentric circles, rectangles and squares, ovals and eye shapes–endured throughout the artist’s entire body of work.

In the 1960s, Pousette-Dart eliminated line and used carefully modulated dots of color to produce glowing auras of light. From about 1976 to the end of his career, his works on paper reveal myriad new approaches to radiant imagery along with an incredible diversity of materials often employed in novel combinations. These include evocative pencil drawings touched with white paint, delicate hand-colored etchings, bold black-and-white paintings of geometric forms, and colorful acrylics on handmade paper. Full Circle, which presents about sixty of the finest examples of Pousette-Dart’s works on paper as well as six of his notebooks, demonstrates that no matter how varied and complex his approaches, the sources of his inspiration remained intensely focused throughout his entire career.

Sponsors
The exhibition is generously supported by The Robert Montgomery Scott Fund for Exhibitions. The accompanying publication is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Fund for Scholarly Publications at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Curator
Innis Howe Shoemaker, The Audrey and William H. Helfand Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Location
Honickman and Berman Galleries, ground floor