Paint Made Flesh December 2, 2009

This exhibition brings together 34 powerful American and European works, all created since the 1950s, that explore the biological, psychological or spiritual volatility of the human figure. The works--by such powerhouse artists as Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Willem de Kooning, Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville and Julian Schnabel--employ a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the carnal properties of human flesh, as well as its metaphorical significance.