Susie Rosmarin, Danese Gallery, New York, NY, March 24-April 22, 2006

(#361) Untitled, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 inches

For more images, see http://www.danese.com/Main/Artists/Rosmarin/ROSM_10.html

Presentational Painting III, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York City, February 16-April 15, 2006

Hartmut Bohm, Paul Corio, Daniel Crews, Matthew Deleget, Lynne Harlow, Gilbert Hsiao, Changha Hwang, Susanne Jung, Steve Karlik, Rossana Martinez, Charlotte Nicholson, Francisca Reyes, Steven Salzman, Martjin Schuppers, Mike Stack, Don Voisine. Curated by Gabriele Evertz, w. John Cox and Abbey Ryan. For artnet Magazine review by Stephen Maine click here. Click here for installation shots.





Paul Corio, BC Juvenile, acrylic on panel, 8.5" x 10.5", 2006

Presentational Painting is a term coined by Sanford Wurmfeld. In the catalog to an earlier exhibiton of Presentional Painting in 1993, he wrote:

"Presentational art...refers to art structured by a human being and presented as a statement, a visual fact, to be expereienced or received by an active viewer. By its sensory nature, such art is untranslatable and the ideas or feelings transmitted by it are tied to the particular object that expresses them."

Still earlier, in 1985 in an exhibition for a show entitled "Color Documents: A Presentational Theory" he wrote:

Presentational Painting is a strain of modern art that originated around 1920 when painting departed entirely from reproduction and thus representation of the object. It stands at opposite ends to abstraction and must be distinguished from it since abstraction denotes art that does not relinquish its relationship to the exterior. But it is important to note that abstraction paved the way for a greater consideration of the role of viewer participation. By definition Presentational Painting is concerned with the account of meaning that is inherent in the painting itself. It is an art that has persisted in the face of resistance and has held its own against many other styles. The specialized approach to concentrating on perceptual phenomena, clarity of its organizing principles and affinity to logic gives rise to pictorial effects that are surprising despite its grounding in calculability and foresight. The pictorial possibilities are still expanding. The striking spatial and kinetic aspects of color interactions are especially astounding to observe. It is this consistency of the search for innovation and diversity that gives the practice its vitality. But to ensure continuation it requires the rethinking and reworking of the critical criteria that informs our expectation for this mode of expression today. "
"...it is the manipulation by the artist of the physical variables--the paint quality, the flat surface, and the size and shape of the support--together with an understanding of the relation of these variables to predictable visual structures, that is fundamental to esthetic meaning in paintings, and the basis of presentational art."

Obsessive Drawing, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, Sept 14, 2005 - March 19, 2006

Eugene Andolsek, Martin Tompson, Hiroyuki Doi, Chris Hipkiss



Eugene Andolsek, Date Unknown, Untitled, India Ink on Paper

Soto; The Universality of the Immaterial, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, August 28 2005 - August 6, 2006

http://www.molaa.org/exhibitions_past_aug2006_soto.html

Manfred Kuttner, Johan Koening, Berlin, Germany, July 2-August 13, 2005

For more information, click here.

Bridget Riley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sideny, Australia, 2005

For review of the show, go to http://www.theage.com.au/news/Reviews/Bridget-Riley/2005/02/28/1109546781984.html

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.