Kinetic Art at Praguebieneale 2, Prague, Czecholslavakia, May 16 - Sept 15, 2005

Curated by Getulio Alviani. For list of 29 participating artists, see

http://www.praguebiennale.org/kineticart.htm

Bridget Riley, Paintings and Works on Paper, Cranbrook Art Museum, 2005

For over 30 images, go to http://www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/riley.html

Vicotr Vasarely, Black and White Paintings from the 1950s, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, October 16-November 13, 2004

Bi-Supernovae, 1961


For more images: http://www.robertmillergallery.com/

-Double click to enter site

-Double click again to find "artists" (in tiny type)

-Double click artists

-Place mouse arrow on down arrow (names start to scroll)

-When Vasarely's name appears, remove mouse arrow from down arrow on screen

-Double click Vassaely's name

-Double click "Images" or "Press Release"

Artnet biolgraphpy:
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=754&which=&aid=17122&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com/ag/fulltextsearch.asp?searchstring=vasarely

Susie Rosmarin, New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, November 22 - December 27, 2003

Deep Blue (#299), 2003, Acrylic on Canvas, 50 x 60"

For more images, see http://www.texgal.com/Rosmarin/index.htm

Horst Bartnig, Ulrich Müller, Berlin, Germany, June 14-August 30, 2003

For more information, click here

Edna Andrade: Optical Paintings, 1963-1986, Insitute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphpia, PA, January 18-April 6, 2003

This was a major show with a nice 74 page color catalog still in print and available from the ICA at http://www.icaphila.org/shop/publications.php.

For original press release and images, see http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/andrade.php

For Art in America review written by Anne Fabri, go to http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_91/ai_110963168

Colors on the Edge: Hard and Soft: The Paintings of Richard Anuszkiewicz and Leon Berkowitz, ACA Galleries, New York, NY, March 9-April 6, 2002

Oranging Magenta, 1981, acrylic on canvas

http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=14&cid=13853

Sanford Wurmfeld, "Cyclorama," Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, November, 2000-March, 2001

At Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, November, (2000-March, 2001), see

http://www.keom.de/ausstellungen/2000_cyclorama_e.html

For good photos of model, see http://www.mohr-i.nl/content.phtml?793

At Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, (2004), see http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/circular.html

Bridget Riley, Dia Chelsea, Reconnaissance, New York, NY, September 21, 2000 - June 17. 2001

http://www.diaart.org/exhibs/riley/reconnaissance/

Post Hypnotic, University Galleries, Illinois State Univ, Normal, IL

John Armleder, Ross Bleckner, Stratton Cherouny, David Clarkson, Mark Dagley, Karen Davie, Steve Di Benedetto, Michelle Grabner, Ted Griffin, Peter Halley, Jim Isermann, Yayoi Kusama, Judy Ledgerwood, Jason Martin, Tom Martinelli, Tom Moody, Sarah Morris, Aaron Parazette, Bruce Pearson, Walter Robinson, Susie Rosmarin, Peter Schuyff, Michael Scott, James Siena, David Szafaranski, Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli, Yek

Curated by Barry Blinderman

This show started on January 12, 1999. It was subsequently presented in Dallas, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Chicago and Duluth.



Click here for Artforum review of this show.

Click here to purchase copy of exhibtion catalog from Amazon.com.

Dynamic Oppositions: Venezuelan Abstract-Constructive Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Sept 1999

Eduardo Mac Intyre
Pintura generativa (Generative Painting),1967, Oil on canvas, 31 3/8 x 31 3/8 inches

An AMAZING survey featuring many strong op works from Venezuela. I haven't found a good central way to navigate the whole site; go room by room and click on the images, or start at the first image and keep clicking on the arrows.

Despcription of the exhibition: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/cisneros/
Room 1: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/cisneros/room_no1.html
Room 2: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/cisneros/room_no2.html
Room 3: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/cisneros/room_no3.html
Room 4: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/cisneros/room_no4.html
Room 5: http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/cisneros/room_no5.html

UP & CO, New York, NY, May 16-July 18, 1998

From the blog of Tom Moody. This exhibiton featured Mark Dagley, Tom Moody, David Clarkson, Ray Rapp, and Alicia Wirt. For exhibtion images and "manifesto," go to http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/op90s/ For reviews by Carol Kino and J. Bowyer Bell, go to http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/opatup/.

The Artist's Eye Curated by Bridget Riley, National Gallery, London, 1987

A nearly half hour film was made in conjunction with this show. For a brief clip, go to http://www.rolandcollection.com/home.aspx#D584


Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, (1520-1523)

Veronese, The Adoration of the Kings(1573)

El Greco, Christ Driving the Money Leanders from the Temple (ca. 1600)

Rubens, 'Minerva protects Pax from Mars ('Peace and War') (1629-30)

Poussin, Adoration of the Shepards (1633-1634)

Poussin, Triumph of Pan (1636)

Cezanne, Bathers (1900-06)

Color Documents: A Presentational Theory, Hunter College, April 15 - June 7, 1985, New York, NY

This interesting exhibition, curated by artist Sanford Wurmfeld, consisted of some 60 documents dating from the 18th century onwards relating to the classification of color, mostly in the form of color charts. A nice catalog catalog accompanied the show, which may still be available.

Along the same lines, see http://www.colorsystem.com/ for a comprehensive site devoted to the history of the study of color.

Op Art: Pictures That Attack the Eye, Time Magazine, October 23, 1964

!964 Time magazine article on op art.

Go to http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897336-1,00.html

Brian DePalma, "The Responsive Eye," (Film Documentary), 1966

Short film documentary on DVD collection called Brian De Palma : Les Année 60Brian De Palma : Les Année 60 available from Amazon France on http://www.amazon.fr/Brian-Palma-Dionysos-Responsive-Documentaire/dp/B0000D91IO/ref=sr_1_73/402-5945524-9784937?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1172753334&sr=1-73 Shot at The Responsive Eye exhibition at MOMA in 1965.