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James Bishop: Paintings on Paper

James Bishop: Paintings on Paper

James Bishop's (American, b. 1927) exquisitely rendered, relatively rare drawings and paintings—which American poet and art critic John Ashbery once called “part air, part architecture”—combine European and American traditions of postwar art. His approach is marked by a poetic, reductionist tendency in which he creates form through color alone. Inflected by subtle shading relationships and a geometry that abandons the hard-edge abstraction used by many of his contemporaries, his work is grounded in the physical process of painting and in the interplay of color.

The Focus exhibition at the Art Institute brings together a small group of Bishop's paintings and roughly 100 works on paper from the artist’s personal collection as well as from private collections in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. It is the first substantial selection of Bishop’s work to be seen outside of Europe. (Bishop has lived in France since 1958.)

Limited edition. Hardcover ; 123 pages with 116 illustrations. 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" x 3/4".

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