![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting1.jpg)
![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting2.jpg)
![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting3.jpg)
![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting4.jpg)
![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting5.jpg)
![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting6.jpg)
![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting7.jpg)
![Painting
2012
Installation View
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting8.jpg)
![Judith Bernstein
Union Jack-Off on Vietnam Policy
1967
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting9.jpg)
![Boris Lurie
Dismembered Stripper
1955
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting12.jpg)
![Carolee Schneemann
Ice Box
1963
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting21.jpg)
![Boris Lurie
Lumumba Is Dead
1959 - 61
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting13.jpg)
![Paul McCarthy
Airplane
1965
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting18.jpg)
![Al Payne
Mine
1992
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting20.jpg)
![Wally Hedrick
Peace
1953
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting11.jpg)
![Barbara T Smith
Day Glo Cotton Balls
1964
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting17.jpg)
![Mike Henderson
Castration
1968
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting15.jpg)
![Lee Lozano
No Title (Hygiene #3)
1961-63
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting14.jpg)
![Wally Hedrick
Self Portrait as Jenny
1992
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting10.jpg)
![Barbara T Smith
Pinch Me
1966
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting16.jpg)
![Paul McCarthy
Foam Pallet
2012
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting19.jpg)
![Carolee Schneemann
Fur Wheel
1962
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting22.jpg)
![Alfons Schilling
Installation View
Cosmos Action Painting / Desperate Motion
1962
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen](/images/pics/5097_painting23.jpg)
- Opening Reception: December 1, 2012 6 - 9 pm
Upcoming Exhibition at The Box: Painting.
Featuring the works of:
Judith Bernstein
Wally Hedrick
Michael Henderson
Lee Lozano
Boris Lurie
Paul McCarthy
Otto Muehl
Al Payne
Alfons Schilling
Carolee Schneemann
Barbara T Smith
December 1 - February 2, 2013
Opening Reception: December 1, 2012 6 - 9 pm
Within the art world, we place high value on painting. We love it for its beauty, for its traditions, for its ease. In our contemporary world it is often seen as a decoration for our walls and as a financial investment for our portfolio. The pieces in this show dating from 1953 - 2012 disrupt this attitude, pushing the viewer to think beyond the accepted idea of painting. Most of these artists work outside of the art world and use paintings to explore their social, personal and artistic dilemmas. These pieces are deeply personal to highly controversial. Ignoring the accepted avenues of what is considered “hip” and “trendy”. There is a pursuit on the track of the ugly as beautiful. Some of these artists are playing with materiality of painting. Some are dealing with the conceptual idea of painting. Some are using painting to process and work through their internal battles be it with political concerns or in matters of their intimate lives. You will walk into this exhibition and be confronted with what seems to be a random collection of paintings, but there is a thread in that each of these artists has lived in the singular pursuit of art for 30 to 60 years. These are tailings of these lives. These artists pursued their art without the concern of the art market. They pursued their art to an extreme. These paintings are without definition. Enjoy.
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