Lisson Gallery

Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now

New York, 27 June – 9 August 2019

Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now

Curated by Alex Glauber & Alex Logsdail

Opening Reception: Wednesday 26 June, 6-8pm

In September of 1975, Artforum published a special issue on painting. In addition to articles such as “Painting and the Struggle for the Whole Self” and “Painting and Anti-Painting: A Family Quarrel”—in which Max Kozloff said “brush wielders were afflicted by a creative halitosis”—were the responses to a questionnaire polling 21 painters on the state and prospects of the medium. While the construct suggests an attempt to engage the question of painting’s future, the tone of both the preface and three questions is exceedingly stilted, rending it more of an obituary than rumination; an indictment of futility.

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Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now artwork

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Location

504 West 24th Street
New York

Opening Times:
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00am – 6:00pm

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