Carl Ostendarp, "Pulled Up"
February 13-July 31, 2009
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Carl Ostendarp |
Carl Ostendarp (American, b. 1961), known for paintings that respond to and take off from the history of late Modernist art, will create a mural installation specifically for The RISD Museum. In anticipation of the exhibition, Ostendarp was invited to visit the Museum's storage spaces to select objects from the collection to be juxtaposed with his own works. His choices range from works by Odilon Redon, Jean Arp, and Joan Miró to Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, John Wesley, Ed Ruscha and others. Ostendarp's style is characterized by simple biomorphic forms, words or images, and flat colors that merge Pop, Color Field and Minimalism into a profoundly deadpan but witty language of its own.
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