Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Installation view, Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 31, 2014 -January 4, 2015.
Installation view, Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 31, 2014 -January 4, 2015.
Installation view, Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 31, 2014 -January 4, 2015.
Installation view, Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, August 31, 2014 -January 4, 2015.
This exhibition brings together a selection of painting and sculpture from the Museum’s permanent collection dating from 1958 to 2014. Recent works inventively reference and reinterpret the past – including both popular and obscure forms of painting, architecture, and design. Earlier works, each part of significant movements in abstract painting, articulate reductive forms suggesting a distinctively utopian view of the future. By sampling and mixing substantial works of the present with the past, this installation aims to provide a glimpse into an ongoing and dynamic dialogue between the two.
Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection is comprised of eleven major works by eight artists of national and international renown: Helen Frankenthaler, Guy Goodwin, Frederick Hammersley, Josiah McElheny, John McLaughlin, Jorge Pardo, Larry Poons, and Lucas Samaras.
