Akron Art Museum

Profil

Art created since 1950 is featured in the Sandra L. and Dennis B. Haslinger Family Foundation Galleries. The eclecticism of style in late 20th century art is revealed through examples of postmodern painting and sculpture, photorealism, Pop art and works that continue surrealist and expressionist approaches. Galleries are organized thematically, an example being artists' varied representations of the human body. On view are Chuck Close 's Linda, a monumental early painting; Andy Warhol 's witty silkscreen painting Elvis; and Ohio carver and preacher Elijah Pierce's animated relief sculpture The Wise and Foolish Virgins and Four Other Scenes.

Other spaces explore both the subtlety and power of abstraction. Masterpieces by Donald Judd , Jackie Winsor and Sol LeWitt present an elegant vision of space ordered through geometry. Frank Stella 's enormous Diepholz (which is both painting and sculpture) and African artist El Anatsui's shimmering wall hanging made from hundreds of liquor bottle caps, address abstraction through a more emotional or instinctual world view.

A separate room in the Haslinger Family Galleries is devoted to the first work of installation art to enter the museum's collection - Atrabiliairios (Defiant), by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo. The piece's elegantly ordered rectangular niches belie its visceral content and materials related to the politics of Colombia.

Künstler der Galerie bzw der Sammlung

Ansel Adams     Diane Arbus     Harry Callahan     Chuck Close     Richard Deacon     Mark di Suvero     Robert Frank     Helen Frankenthaler     Gilbert & George     Phillip Guston

Childe Hassam     Donald Judd     Ed Moses     Claes Oldenburg     Nam June Paik     Frank Stella     Alfred Stieglitz     Andy Warhol