Review of "Past Cliche's"

Title of article: Looking Past the Cliche to See a Bit of the Edge
Author: Karen Rosenberg
Source: The New York Times
Date of Publication: April 25, 2008

As time goes on everything goes through a transition and a period of change. As the author of this article says, “new styles and movements take shape.” The New York University gallery displayed an exhibition, “The Downtown Show,” which focused on the Lower Manhattan scene of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. This show was called “New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture From the N.Y.U. Art Collection,” displays late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s. During such period you see the transitional phase of Abstract Expressionism and Pop. This collection points out that this period had more than a few well known artists that were part of this movement other than the artists everyone is familiar with. A few examples are Robert Moses, Seymour Lipton, Robert Goodnough and Conrad Marca-Relli. Pop, as explained by the author, “takes root in two paintings,” by Mr. Katz. During this era we also saw the transitional period for women gracing us with their work as well. Ms. Kusama’s painting “No. Red A” was said that it is a piece of “neurotic abstraction”; its tightly packed red circles conjuring a swarm of insects. We also have Ms. Bourgeois’s “Labyrinthine Tower,” giving a similar “psychosexual force.” All in all, it seems that this show would take us back to the transitional period and show us the beginning of a movement that was a period that would change art.