Gallery Glimpses Nov 20, 2009
Celebrated SMFA alumni such as Ellsworth Kelly, Lalla Essaydi and Mike and Doug Starn. Boston-area artists such as Nelson Da Costa, Derrick Te Paske and Rachel Perry Welty. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
But staring it down on a facing wall is an imperious Ellsworth Kelly - a large abstraction of blue shapes on white - that feels as surprising and delightful to the senses as two elephants tentatively touching backsides. Abstraction, however, is only the beginning. (Boston Globe)
Farnsworth Art Museum surveys the career of Robert Indiana Aug 21, 2009
There he became friends with Ellsworth Kelly and other young artists kicking against the dominant style of abstract expressionism. The show s first room features two striking paintings, Source I and Source II, that suggest the influence of Kelly, with their flat, severely reduced shapes in beautiful combinations of two or three colors, inspired by natural forms (in this case, avocado seeds). (Boston Globe)
SFMOMA may have shot at Fishers' art collection Jul 4, 2009
Museum leaders will only say that the Fishers' rich collection of work by such artists as Ellsworth Kelly and Philip Guston would be more than welcome. "That (Fisher) collection is so great, so fine, it needs to stay in San Francisco," SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra said Thursday. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Material World: Heath Ceramics' casting call May 18, 2009
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's recently unveiled rooftop sculpture garden by Jensen Architects and CMG Landscape Architecture is filled with many enormous works, including an 18-foot-high Cor-Ten steel stele by Ellsworth Kelly. So it would be easy to miss the tiniest new design in the space: a 2-inch-tall stoneware espresso cup. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Spiralling Upward May 18, 2009
Works of artists like Alexander Calder and Ellsworth Kelly play off well against the curves, but the space overwhelms anything small, delicate, or highly detailed. This makes the Guggenheim the progenitor of every architecturally assertive museum since, and beside works like Frank Gehry s Guggenheim Bilbao or Daniel Libeskind s glass-and-metal shards in Denver and Toronto, it now looks almost demure. (New Yorker)
New modern art wing lights Chicago's Art Institute May 16, 2009
The second floor is devoted to European and American art from 1950 to the present, including a room devoted to the color field paintings of Ellsworth Kelly. In the Gerhardt Richter room, location of the German painter's pieces play on Piano's theme of ambient lighting, with Richter's all-gray works facing away from windows and his color panels receiving outdoor light obliquely. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Follow the Art Trail! Apr 7, 2009
Displayed front and center in the video room s flat case, check out the commemorative photo for Agnes Gund (MoMA s retired president) of some of last century s art luminaries: among them are Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Chuck Close, Christo and Jean-Claude, and Elizabeth Enders. The Art Trail began in 1995 as the Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail, with seven of the now 15 museums in the group. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Peter Schjeldahl: Ellsworth Kelly, at the Matthew Marks gallery. Mar 17, 2009
New paintings and old drawings by the eighty-five-year-old seraph of abstraction, Ellsworth Kelly, make for the finest show in town, at three spaces of the Matthew Marks gallery ... ELLSWORTH KELLY, COURTESY MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY, N.Y. Share. (New Yorker)
'Cezanne and Beyond' ties artist to those he influenced Mar 8, 2009
Treasured, rarely seen works have also been lent by such artists as Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly and such private collectors as Steve and Elaine Wynn. (Titillatingly, the Wynns have lent Picasso's "The Dream (Marie-Th?r?se)," the portrait of the artist's sleeping lover, which casino mogul Steve Wynn accidentally punctured with his elbow on the eve of selling it for a record-busting $139 million in 2006. (Boston Globe)
Philadelphia exhibit shows Cezanne's lasting power Feb 26, 2009
An enormous blue wedge done by Ellsworth Kelly in 2002 was inspired by his favorite Cezanne landscape dominated by a lake of similar shape, and Cezanne's iconic oil paintings of bathers hang adjacent to works of the 1950s through the '80s by modernists Jasper Johns and Brice Marden that disassembled, transfigured and synthesized the originals. "Much of what modern art is about is distillation," said curator Katherine Sachs. (Yahoo News)
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008: EMILY JACIR Feb 12, 2009
In addition to THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE, the company has helped to make possible the retrospectives of Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, Frank Gehry, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist; the presentation of Art in America: Now in Shanghai; the Ed Ruscha (2005) and Felix Gonzalez-Torres (2007) exhibitions in the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; and the exhibition theanyspacewhatever (2008), featuring the works of several past finalists,... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Andrea K. Scott: Vik Muniz, at MOMA. Feb 8, 2009
Some are formal: a yellow square by Ellsworth Kelly abu 00004000 ts Kiki Smith s glass sculpture of an egg yolk. Others crack wise: stones, both collected and copied in bronze, by Vija Celmins, shears made by the cutlery company J. A. Henckels, and a crumpled ball of paper by Martin Creed play a round of rock, scissors, paper. (New Yorker)
