Abstraction from the Collection

Oct 2, 2009 - Dec 13, 2009

Locks Gallery artists Edna Andrade, Neysa Grassi, and Elizabeth Osborne are included in Abstraction from the Collection, an exhibition curated by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art, and Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery in the Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building.

This installation of the permanent collection includes a dynamic group of paintings and works on paper by artists who explored the possibilities posed by working with abstraction. Twenty-six objects dating from the 1950s through 2005 are included. Highlights include recent acquisitions of paintings by Kevin Finklea, Neysa Grassi, Stephen Greene, and Clarence Morgan, a large selection of original works on paper by Robert Motherwell, major works of Op Art by Edna Andrade, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Julian Stanczak and Henry Pearson, works on paper by Franz Kline and Mark Rothko, plus major works by Barry Goldberg, Lee Krasner, Conrad Marca-Relli, and Elizabeth Osborne.

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