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Copyright © 2003 Rona Conti
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Beyond the Picture Frame
Works from 1970 to the Present
Rose Art Museum
Brandeis University
January 22 - June 29 2003
This exhibition draws from the extensive holdings of the Brandeis art collection and indicates the diversity of artistic inquiries,
creativity, and techniques presented in the collection. Beyond the Picture Frame focuses on artistic expression in the
post-modern era. All of the pieces on view, even the most apparently reductive, reveal the touch of the artist as a constitutive aspect of
the work, and they take on meaning beyond the medium.
The exhibition reveals the ongoing power and persistence of abstraction from the instantaneous gesture to a laborious, time
intensive artistic process. Figurative painting ranges from a photo-realist depiction of objects, the self and others, to an
immediate style of expressive figurations where the figure seems to emerge from the spontaneous brushstrokes. In other works
the evidence of the artist's hand is removed from the surface and is instead part of a conceptual idea that informs the piece.
Beyond the Picture Frame initiates an informal dialogue between the works that transcends the distinction between
abstraction and representation. The broad subject of water, for example, is articulated in a metaphorical way to express
a state of mind in Horst Hodicke's piece.
Rona Conti's painting builds on the medium quality of dripping paint to allude to cascades of water.
The natural phenomenon of a heroic waterfall turning into a calm river is conceptualized in Annette Lemieux's
installation through the appropriation and enlargement of a photograph and the physical experience of walking on a strip
of soft carpet. At the same time the course of water referred to in Lemieux's work serves as the visualization of a
linguisitic term: the work's title Decline.
Raphaela Platow, Curator
Rose Art Museum
Copyright © 2003 Raphael Platow
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