Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction After 1960 August 25, 2009

The various contemporary art movements grouped under the banner of geometric abstraction - post-painterly abstraction, Hard Edge painting, Color Field painting, Op Art, Minimalism - are all indebted to the early 20th-century experiments of such pioneering modernists as Vassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Josef Albers, and Piet Mondrian. The exhibition highlights important editioned prints and portfolios and a selection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and multiples by such renowned artists as Josef Albers, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Kenneth Noland, Robert Mangold, Donald Judd, Bridget Riley, Robert Ryman, Sol LeWitt, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Gene Davis, Agnes Martin, Joel Shapiro and Sean Scully.