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Aaronel deRoy Gruber

The Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation is dedicated to Aaronel’s practice. She attended Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology through 1936 until 1940 and enjoyed a multifaceted artistic journey beginning with abstract painting and moving through sculpture in metal, dimensional works in plastics, and finally photography. Her work is included in the permanent collection of The Carnegie Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Frick Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Kawamura Museum of Modern Art, Japan. 

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Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús was a pioneer of the idea that a viewer could actually walk into an artwork and experience it from the inside, something we now take for granted, but which was revolutionary in its time. Born in Venezuela, it was in Paris in the 1950s that he immersed himself in the movements that were transforming Geometric Abstraction by using effects of motion and movement to bring artworks to life: literally, as in Kinetic Art, or metaphorically, as in Op Art, in which paintings or sculptures appear to be moving due to visual trickery. His works were realized on increasingly grand scales, so that eventually viewers could move within and throughout his vast sculptural forms. This made his work perfect for realization as grand public art, and so his legacy is visible across many cityscapes today.

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Lindsay Packer

Generative relationships between luminous color and ephemeral form propel Lindsay Packer’s site-responsive work in performance, installation, film and video, photography and streaming media. She plays with the call and response of color and light, form and site, engaging an analog/digital continuum of shifting chroma and temporary geometries in which color and form are inseparable. She’s included in Bluets and Blue along with Erika and others.

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Daniel Johnston

took a turn earlier this year in his ceramics practice (which is normally vessels) to present Now is Nowhere Else at Gerald Peters. The intentional development of a process that merged chance and choice caught my interest, and I love his thesis that “the strength of the total sum of the bricks depends solely on the richness and individualism of each single unit.”

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Vasa

For EXPO Chicago, Taylor Graham staged an exhibition (which included works by Vasa, or Vasa Mihich) noting that “it is fascinating to explore the commonalities and differences among paintings and sculptures encompassing a range of mid-century into the 21st century abstract styles, including hard edge, stain, Light and Space acrylic sculpture, synchromist inspired, and kinetic sculpture.”

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Agnes Denes

is one of several artist included in Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions which highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. Agnes work while non-figurative is much closer to the lineage of conceptual art than abstract painting or sculpture.

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Charlotte Posenenske

Curator Alexis Lowry traces the playful quality of Charlotte’s sculptures, drawings, and photographs, illuminating their connections to her Minimalist contemporaries along with broader socio-political concerns on Dia’s blog in the context of “Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress” which he curated.

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Cris Gianakos

(from the 2019 essay This strange, intoxicating “Almost Nothing” by Yorghos Tzirtzilakis) In discussing the work of Cristos Gianakos one can only start from reconsidering a question: what is the current meaning of that form of contemporary art most people call ‘minimal-ism’? In this case minimalism does not stop at a sketchy, formalized, rational version or at a belated celebration of ‘littleness’; instead it goes on to a dispersion which is, in fact, in tune with the character of our times and our culture.”

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Joe Ray

Diane Rosenstein is pleased to present Fifteen Columns , a solo exhibition by Joe Ray. Drawing on the ideals of Minimalism and the California Light and Space movements, Joe says about below “Initially, my first thought of it was that you might walk into the space and wonder where the art is, you may not see it. You could miss it.  But that’s part of the experiment.”

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