Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Tadao Ando Building with Special Exhibition
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The Modern begins its twentieth year in its Tadao Ando-designed galleries with a permanent collection installation focused on works acquired since the building’s opening. Both floors showcase paintings, photographs, sculptures, and videos by artists from a wide range of cultures and geographies. The first floor explores new directions in abstraction, conceptualism, pop, and minimalism over the past two decades. Works embracing theories of the lens, cinema, semiotics,
Stanley Whitney, Good Trouble, 2020, Oil on linen, 96 × 96 in. ©Stanley Whitney
and psychology open the installation. Takashi Murakami and Andy Warhol dominate the dialogue around pop art, with contributions by Ed-
Jammie Holmes, Carrying Caskets #1, 2021, Acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, 80 1/2 × 91 3/4 × 2 in. ©Jammie Holmes
die Martinez and Ed Ruscha. Jack Goldstein’s monumental Untitled, 1979, anchors a series of works with spare, mostly black or white palettes, including photographs by Orit Raff, drawings and a sculpture by Banks Violette, and sculptures by Justin Adian and Robert Smithson. The last permanent collection gallery on the first floor holds earthy compositions by Susan Rothenberg, Nancy Graves, and Linda Ridgway. On the second floor, portraits and landscapes, both figurative and abstract, join videos, bold color studies, and works on paper. Kamrooz Aram, Dan Christensen, Thornton Dial, and Lucy Dodd invite viewers to consider nature in the abstract. Humor and
Front cover: Takashi Murakami, Kawaii! Vacances d’été: Perfect Time, 2018, Gold leaf and acrylic on canvas, 118 1/8 × 275 9/16 × 3 in. Mr DOB,1997, Inflatable vinyl chloride, Overall: 93 × 119 3/4 × 71 in. ©Takashi Murakami 4
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April 2022
