Elemental Forms

four ceramic forms on a grey background

Blanca Guerra Echeverria, American (b.1988), Looming Still, 2016, ceramic, underglaze, glaze, and luster. Purchased with funds from the CUAM Collectors Circle,听CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, 麻豆影院, 2016.13a-d. Photo: Wes Magyar / 漏 Blanca Guerra Echeverria.

black and green fields

Ellsworth Kelly, American (1923 鈥 2015), Black/Green, 1970, from the 鈥淪eries of Ten Lithographs鈥, 61/75, lithograph, 23 x 19 inches sheet. Gift of Johns Manville Corporation, CU Art Museum, 麻豆影院, 99.04. Photo: CU Art Museum / 漏 Ellsworth Kelly Foundation and Gemini G.E.L.

very detailed drawing of a pyramid

Agnes Denes, Hungarian | American (b. 1938), The Pyramids As They Were, 1994, Artist Proof 1/1, arches cover white with blue ink and silver dusting, 25 x 35 1/2 inches. Purchase with funds provided by Charles J. Tanenbaum, CU Art Museum, 麻豆影院, 2008.12.01. Photo: Jeff Wells / 漏 Agnes Denes.

Elemental Forms

July 15, 2017鈥揗ay 12, 2018

Minimalism, Conceptualism and geometric abstraction prevail in听Elemental Forms. Works by midcentury Modernists Annie and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer and Ellsworth Kelly are combined with those of later Minimal and Conceptual artists, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Agnes Martin, Sol LeWitt and Frank Stella. LeWitt鈥檚 early structure,听3 Part Set D听(1966鈥69) offers a turning point for the exhibition, foregrounding the artistic exploration of systems and concepts that dominated Minimalism from the 1970s onward. Experimentations with color interaction, artistic process and instruction are on view in the prints, drawings, paintings and sculptures featured in the exhibition. Works by Olafur Eliasson, Callum Innes and Blanca Guerra Echeverria听offer contemporary responses to the Modernist tradition.听

This exhibition was curated by听Hope Saska, curator of collections and exhibitions, CU Art Museum.

View images of the exhibition installation here.