Symposium on Abstract Expressionism

Symposium

"Abstract Expressionism: Time, Intention, Conservation, and Meaning"
Getty Center, Los Angeles
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Save the Date

The Clyfford Still Museum Research Center, in collaboration with the
Getty Conservation Institute, will be hosting the second Clyfford
Still Museum Research Center symposium, "Abstract Expressionism:
Time, Intention, Conservation, and Meaning", to be held at the Getty
Center, Los Angeles CA on Thursday, November 12, 2015.

Abstract Expressionism was one of the most significant artistic
movements of the twentieth century.  Artists such as Clyfford Still,
Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and
others employed new materials and techniques in art making that
presented the medium of paint, and how it was applied, as an agent
of expressive communication.  These works, many now over sixty years
old, are inevitably ageing and the once-innovative techniques and
physical choices present conservation challenges.  These artists'
works also exist in a unique moment--suspended between recollections
of them appearing fresh and new, almost as from the artist's studio,
and historical artistic documents of a past era. The way scholars
and conservators address these changes will impact future
generations' understanding of the artists and the movement itself.

This one day symposium will bring together conservators,
conservation scientists, scholars, and others interested in Abstract
Expressionism to discuss these developments and to begin to think
more precisely about what should be considered acceptable change for
the artworks, and what should not, in view of their makers intent
and meaning.

Speakers include

    Brad Epley
    Chief Conservator
    The Menil Collection

    Dr. Corina Rogge
    Conservation Science
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Nicholas Dorman
    Chief Conservator
    Seattle Art Museum

    Zahira Veliz-Bomford
    Head of Paintings Conservator
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Patricia Smithen
    Tate Modern

    Mary Gridley
    Cranmer Conservation Group, LLC

    James Squires
    Chief Conservator
    Clyfford Still Museum

    Dr. Narayan Khandekar
    Director
    Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
    Harvard Art Museums

    Carol Stringari
    Deputy Director and Chief Conservator
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    Susan Lake
    Hirshhorn Museum

Tickets will be available through the Getty beginning August 31,
2015.

James Squires
Chief Conservator
Clyfford Still Museum
720-354-4882


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