I guess there’s only room for one local artist in the contemporary rooms because after I waltzed out of what I had considered Lowe’s room, sad that his piece was gone, I checked the next gallery and there it was, the local token, Edna Andrade‘s op art piece “Color Motion 4-64” (1964). (in the image above, that’s the Andrade on the wall, right, behind the Brillos. Image below is the piece, a true hurt the eye accomplishment.) The Andrade looks great in the triangular arrangement with Warhol‘s three Brillo boxes (1964) and Richard Anuszkiewicz‘s op piece “Knowledge and Disappearance,” 1961. I’m happy to see the local toehold maintained at the museum, albeit in its minimal number. Would that there were room for more than one at a time. (I still think a Sarah McEneaney painting would be a great permanent addition to one of the rooms. Put in next to that big, dumb Peter Doig. Can anyone give me a good reason why not?)
Shop local, shop artists this holiday season, a short list
Memento Mori, A trip through skulls, Sotheby’s, shot glasses and soap
The quintessence of collaboration – Damon Kowarsky and Atif Khan in Hybrid at Twelve Gates Arts