New in the Galleries: Art Since 1948

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Color photograph of the view looking upward between buildings in New York City around dusk or dawn, when the buildings are silhouettes and the sky is a medium blue. The square buildings divide the image in fourths, with lights visible in just one window.
Kenji Nakahashi, Cut Out Sky (New Street between Exchange Place & Beaver Street, New York City/#1), 1984; printed 1991. Chromogenic print on paper. Anonymous gift in memory of Kenji Nakahashi. © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

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A gallery filled with art, including a large rectangular sculpture leaning against a wall. It has textured rollers to the left and empty box-like shelves to the right. On the right-hand wall are a print and two assemblage works of art.
Art Since 1948, installation view at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021.

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Three paintings in a gallery. At left is a brightly colored assembly of shapes, at center is a standing couple in summer gear, at right is an abstract work that resembles a green tornado. All are giant canvases, taller than a grown man.
Art Since 1948, installation view at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021.

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Large, fuzzy photograph of a South Asian woman in a long white coat. She stands in front of a giant blooming rhodedendron bush. The reason the image is blurry is that the artist has scratched away the image. He hopes to show how memory can fade over time.
Art Since 1948, installation view at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021.
Curatorial Research

Recent acquisitions and exceptional loans have rotated into KAM’s long-term presentation of modern and contemporary art from the collection.

Two early works by Houston Conwill, renowned for his large-scale public art installations at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Community College of Philadelphia, and New York City’s African Burial Ground, among many other sites, are strong examples of California assemblage concerned with African American spiritualism and relationships between sculpture and performance.

David Park’s Standing Couple (1958) returns from a retrospective exhibition tour organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Conservation has also been completed on Philip Guston’s The Porch (1946–47).

One section of Art Since 1948 will be centered on photography and performance and includes works by Allan deSouza, Laurel Nakadate, Kenji Nakahashi, and Andy Warhol.

 

Art Since 1948 is curated by Amy L. Powell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art