The Frist opens Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975 in the Ingram Gallery and Shades of Gray: Four Artists of the Southeast in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery and Education Gallery. Visit the Frist page on Art Museum Touring.com ((link...)).

Sentinel 1951
Adolph Gottlieb
Digital image print on paper 23" x 23"
From: Color as Field
Courtesy of the Artist

The Color as Field exemplifies in the work of Joseph Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, the paintings featured in this exhibition constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Color as Field will encompass approximately 40 large-scale canvases.

Shades of Gray will present the works of four Southeastern artists. Each artist employs a limited palette of black, white and gray in exploring ambiguous relationships between figure and ground, as well as reality and the imagination.

Both exhibitions run until Sept. 21, 2008

In addition, a third exhibition is on display in the Upper-Level Galleries Tiffany by Design: The Neustadt Collection Aug. 24, 2008.

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Sherrie