Jim Lambie
zobop! 1999
Vinyl tape on floor
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Concentrations 47: Jim Lambie,
Dallas Museum of Art, 2005
Colors for a Large Wall. 1951
Oil on canvas on sixty-four wood panels
7′ 10 1⁄2″ x 7′ 10 1⁄2″ (240 x 240 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist
Andy Warhol
Do It Yourself (Landscape). 1962
Acrylic, pencil, and Letraset on linen
69 3⁄4 x 54 1⁄8″ (177.2 x 137.5 cm)
Museum Ludwig Cologne. Donation Ludwig
Gran Cairo. 1962
Alkyd on canvas
85 1⁄4 x 85 1⁄4″ (216.5 x 216.5 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase,
with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of
American Art
Red Devil Color Chart No. 1. 1963
Oil on canvas
7′ x 60″ (213.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection Alice F. and Harris K. Weston
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor
March 2-May 12, 2008
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the 20th century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a commercial product, mass-produced and standardized. The Romantic quest for personal expression instead became Andy Warhol’s “I want to be a machine;” the artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella’s “Straight out of the can; it can’t get better than that.” Color Chart is the first major exhibition devoted to this pivotal transformation, and will feature work by 44 artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst. Organized by Ann Temkin, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
The exhibition is supported by Benjamin Moore Paints. Additional generous funding is provided by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley.
images are taken from the book that will be Published in conjunction with the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, organized by Ann Temkin at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
