Building Models: The Shape of Painting

Building Models: The Shape of Painting is the latest installment in an ongoing series of exhibitions I began curating in 1985 under the general heading Building Models. This project encompasses two sub-series: Painting Between the Paradigms and Strategies. Influenced by the structural and conceptual shifts that fueled the critique of Modernism, my intent with these exhibitions is to index the diverse nature of abstract painting’s formalist strategies as they morph between 1951 and 1974-the year Artforum famously announced the so-called "death" of painting. During this period, critically re-evaluation,  abstract art shifted conceptually from a mode of representation to an event/ object in the world.