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To celebrate our 10th year, the Anderson Collection is excited to present a film series featuring artists in An Expanded Lens, our anniversary exhibition!
Join us for a special tour of Sky Garden by Louise Nevelson and Before, Again IV by Joan Mitchell by Sarah Roberts, the Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation. This will be followed by a double-feature film screening of Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter and Nevelson: Awareness in the Fourth Dimension. Theater-style snacks and drinks will be provided.
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Marion Cajori's Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter
A powerful and intimate portrait, JOAN MITCHELL: PORTRAIT OF AN ABSTRACT PAINTER captures Mitchell's independent spirit and testifies eloquently to Mitchell's art. Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1925 and died in Paris in 1992. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan settled in New York City in 1950. She was an active participant of New York's dynamic Abstract Expressionist scene and hung out with fellow painters Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston and, soon, poets Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. In the mid-fifties, she moved to Paris, France. There she was part of a circle of friends that included Pierre Matisse, Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti. Mitchell is one of the great abstract painters of the 20th century. This elegantly edited documentary weaves interviews with the acerbic Mitchell and other leading painters and critics while letting her stunning pictures dominate the film. Stephen Holden of the New York Times says, "The canvases have grand chaotic romanticism. While celebrating the physical universe with an ecstatic love of color, they don't shy away from expressing a harsh, feral apprehension of nature and its violence."
Dale Schierholt's Nevelson: Awareness in the Fourth Dimension
Using images of the artist and extensive footage of her work, this film profiles the art—and persona—of sculptor Louise Nevelson. Through the artist’s own words, and those of individuals who knew her intimately, the viewer is allowed a fresh look at the ground-breaking art—and thought—which helped to redefine sculpture in the twentieth century.
Image, left to right: Before, Again IV (1985), Joan Mitchell & Sky Garden (1959-1964), Louise Nevelson.