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THE UNIVERSITY CLUB TO HOST ART COLLECTING SYMPOSIUM ON FEB 26
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NEW YORK CITY â A one-day symposium featuring Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times chief art critic, as keynote speaker and panels of notable New York artists, collectors, critics and scholars, will explore the present state of art collecting. The symposium âAn Eye Toward Collectingâ will be held on Saturday, February 26, at the University Club.
Following the keynote address, a morning panel will explore âWho Sets the Standard? Who Defines Quality?â The panelists are Chuck Close, artist, New York; Gary Garrels, chief curator of drawings and curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art; Werner Kramarsky, collector, New York; Robert Rosenblum, Henry Ittleson Jr professor of modern European art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Karen Wilkin, art historian and critic, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
The afternoon panel, moderated by Thelma Golden, deputy director for exhibitions and programs, The Studio Museum in Harlem, will discuss collecting âAhead of the Curveâ with panelists James Cohan, director, James Cohan Gallery; Agnes Gund, collector and president emerita, Museum of Modern Art; Peter Plagens, senior writer for fine arts, Newsweek; Kiki Smith, artist, New York; and Gary Tinterow, Englehard curator, department of Nineteenth Century modern and contemporary art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The University Club is at 1 West 54th Street. For information, 202-633-1000.
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KNOEDLER & COMPANY TO SHOW âJOHN WALKER: COLLAGEâ w/no cuts
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NEW YORK CITY â Knoedler & Company will present a survey focused on John Walkerâs work in collage, spanning the years 1974â78, and returning to his most recent explorations in that medium dating 2003â04, on February 3.
When Walker created his earliest collages he was in his mid-30s and teaching at various New York Schools. In these early collages, Walker departed from Cubist convention by working in massive scale vertical formats. With large pieces of canvas as collage material, these works are characterized by powerful jutting, layered, angular forms, as in âJuggernaut with Plume for P. Neruda,â 1975.
The âOstracaâ and âNuminousâ series followed in 1977â78 â the âNuminousâ collages linking Walker to a tradition of painters that includes Manet, Goya and Matisse.
Since 2000, a central motif in Walkerâs work has been the muddy beaches and tide pools near his Maine home. He observes this subject intimately through its many permutations. His most recent collages fall within this series â freely painted, they are composed of heavy torn paper layered upon paper, overwritten with text inspired by local Maine roadside signs.
âJohn Walker: Collageâ is on view until March 19. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalog with essay by Dore Ashton, In the Light of Painting: John Walkerâs Recent and Not So Recent Work.
Knoedler & Company is at 19 East Street. For information, 212-794-0550 or www.knoedlergallery.com.