Jack Tworkov
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November 20, 2014
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Opening tonight, November 20, 6-8pm:
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On the occasion of the New York Studio School’s 50th Anniversary, Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present
12 Painters: The Studio School, 1974/2014. This dynamic exhibition brings together paintings by six artists who studied at the New York Studio School in the early 1970s: Andrea Belag, Robert Bordo, Joyce Pensato, David Reed, Adam Simon, and Christopher Wool; and six Studio School teachers who influenced them: Nicolas Carone, Philip Guston, Mercedes Matter, George McNeil, Steven Sloman, and Jack Tworkov. The exhibition will be on view from November 20th, 2014 through January 10th, 2015 at Steven Kasher Gallery, exploring the connections/dissonances of artists from the Studio School across generations.
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Valerie Carberry Gallery is pleased to announce Drawing the Figure, an exhibition of drawings by Jack Tworkov that spans four decades. The exhibition opened in Chicago on November 14, 2014 and will be on view through January 10, 2015. This is the first exhibition to specifically feature the figurative drawings by the artist. Continue Reading →
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JT at the Whitney Museum: 50 years ago
50 years ago this year the Whitney Museum of American Art opened a major survey of Jack Tworkov’s work featuring 60 paintings, 5 collages, and 19 drawings. The exhibition opened at the Whitney on March 25 and ran until May 3, 1964, then traveled to other American museums including the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center among others.
Accompanying this historic exhibition was a substantial catalogue. In celebration of the 50th year of the exhibition, the catalogue essay written by Edward Bryant has been reproduced herein as well as the corresponding illustrations. Continue Reading →
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JT and the New York Studio School
This year the New York Studio School celebrates its 50th anniversary! From humble beginnings, it was founded in 1964 by a group of restless students under the leadership of artist, activist, writer and educator Mercedes Matter. Jack Tworkov was instrumental as one of the original artists to contribute to the formation of the school. In this brief account of the history of the Studio School, we look at Jack Tworkov's friendship with the school's founder Mercedes Matter, and his involvement with the school. Continue Reading →
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Jack Tworkov, "One Turning," 1952, Oil on canvas, 38 x 42 in. Private Collection, New York, JT#504
Jack Tworkov: Black Mountain College and Beyond
selected works from 1952-1982
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC
March 7-June 14, 2015
By the time Jack Tworkov arrived to teach painting at Black Mountian College in July 1952, his reputation as one of America’s première painters was proven. A noted intellectual, Tworkov believed in being open to all forms of inspiration and expression. His interdisciplinary attitude and commitment to a balanced exchange of ideas made Tworkov one of the most inspiring teachers in the history of Black Mountain College and allowed him to form lasting relationships with composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Stephan Wolpe, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the young artist Robert Rauschenberg to name a few.
This exhibition, curated by Jason Andrew, curator of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, revisits Tworkov’s affiliation with Black Mountain College yet quickly expands to include a significant survey of the artist's career including important works spanning three decades from 1952-1982.
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Jack Tworkov, "Q2-76 #1," 1976, Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 in., Estate of Jack Tworkov, New York, JT#141
Jack Tworkov: Important Paintings from the 1970s
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
October 11-December 20, 2015
In the mid-1960s Jack Tworkov broke from his abstract expressionist style of painting. He felt his work had reached a predictable stage in which his compositions were becoming automatically repetitive. The exuberance that was a condition at the birth of Tworkov's paintings from the 1950s could not be “maintained without pretense forever.”
Desiring to set up a situation that would establish a new beginning, Tworkov turned to geometry and began imposing a system of limitations around which an infinite number of possibilities could be tried. Exploring what could be called a structured improvisation, Tworkov created a stable system of lines for his painterly brushwork, directional strokes and loose dripping - gestural characteristics seen in his earlier work.
By the 1970s he had reinvented himself and began painting some of his most important, yet rarely seen works.
In a cohesive and selective arrangement, curated by Jason Andrew, curator of the Estate of Jack Towrkov, this exhibition is the first of its kind to bring together important paintings from the 1970s offering a reflection on Tworkov’s tension between spontaneity and restraint, the automatic and the planned.
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News from the Jack Tworkov Catalogue Raisonne:
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Launched on September 4, 2012 to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Jack Tworkov, the Jack Tworkov Works on Canvas Catalogue Raisonne Project now includes over 400 works.
Developed in collaboration with panOpticon, our online catalogue was the first of its kind released free to the public on the web and continues to expand, with new research related to the works, descriptions, ownership histories, exhibition histories and published references.
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Jack Tworkov, "The Pier (Provincetown)," 1925, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in.→
Collection of the Yellowstone Art Museum (1979.021), JT#827
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