5 Search Results for “okeeffe and abstraction”

  • Part of Jun 2012 by

    Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: “Touch Relics” on Display

    Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image, at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, continues the positive trend begun last year by O’Keeffiana: Art and Art Materials, in broadening our view of the artist by presenting artifacts from the museum’s vault alongside her works. As the second hagiographic show in a series of three, O’Keeffe and the Faraway contextualizes O’Keeffe’s work by highlighting aspects of her artistic practice, especially as they lend to material More …

  • Part of Jan 2010 by

    O’Keeffe: Abstraction, In Review

    In 1938, Life Magazine called Georgia OKeeffe  “the worlds most famous woman artist.” Intended no doubt as a compliment, this anointment was a stigma that had already been with OKeeffe for 20 years, and would be with her for the rest of her life, and beyond. OKeeffe would struggle with the accepted notions that her work was irrepressibly sexual, or that her flower paintings and desert landscapes were hopelessly pretty. More …

  • Part of Sep 2009 by

    A Woman with a Past: Georgia O’Keeffe and Abstraction

    The Whitney Museum opens Georgia OKeeffe: Abstraction, a new look at the artists abstract works. Works include photographs of the artist such as “Hands, Georgia OKeeffe” (1918) by Alfred Stieglitz. Lifetime TV premiered the OKeeffe biopic September 18. I cant help but find this an interesting coincidence. September 18, the same day that Huffington Post led its living page with a story about the declining happiness of women (Part 1 More …

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    Susan York at the O’Keeffe Museum

    Most of the time one doesn’t think of painting as volume, because a volume implies a third dimension. But on touring the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s winter show, Susan York: Carbon (January 21-April 17. 2016), it was easy to submit to a sense of pleasurable dislocation imparted when works of two dimension meet works of three, as in the meeting of O’Keeffe paintings and Susan York’s graphite sculptures. (Images are courtesy of the artist. Photographs: More …

  • Part of May 2012 by

    Barbara Buhler Lynes Resigns as O’Keeffe Museum Curator in Santa Fe

    Barbara Buhler Lynes, who became curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum when it opened in 1999 1997, resigned that post today, effective immediately, and also relinquished her title and position as Emily Fisher Landau director of the Museum’s O’Keeffe Research Center. Lynes has been recognized as the world’s premier authority on Georgia O’Keeffe, about whom she co-authored the Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne (1999), and wrote the critical work,  O’Keeffe: Stieglitz and the More …