Open September 5 – October 19, 2024
Susan Sheehan Gallery is please to present GOAT X THE GRAPHIC IMAGE, an exhibition featuring works by artists including Vija Celmins, Richard Diebenkorn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and H.C. Westermann. Referencing the contemporary abbreviation for “Greatest of All Time”, usually reserved for athletes and singers with a vast career of achievements, this group exhibition highlights artworks by some of the most iconic visual artists of the Post War Era, ranging from 1960 to the present.
Included in the exhibition is Brice Marden’s Cold Mountain Series, Zen Studies 1-6 (1991). Grounded in the art of calligraphy and based on the poems of the celebrated Chinese poet named Hanshan, this series of etchings with aquatint depict tangled webs and vertical gestures suggesting poetic couplets. Also featured is Flowers (1970), a part of one of Andy Warhol’s most popular series. Based on a fold-out spread depicting four hibiscus blooms from Popular Photography Magazine, Warhol ran this image through a primitive photocopier to coarsen the gradients and flatten the petals into bleached cutouts ready for lurid colors, further disrupting recognizability. Another highlight is Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station (1966), one of the enduring emblems of American Pop art. Its subject was a lucky find: a dowdy gas station that he photographed on the drive between Los Angeles and Oklahoma City and included in his groundbreaking artist’s book, Twenty-six Gasoline Stations (1963).
Representing a wide array of techniques, disciplines and intentions, this exhibition gathers what can be considered some of the “GOATS,” or greatest artists of our time.
GOAT X THE GRAPHIC IMAGE will be on view at Susan Sheehan Gallery from Thursday September 5th through October 19th, 2024.