The mercurial Mr. Rand has created a series of canvases representing the Biblical history of Israel using imagery copied in a loose, colorful style from various sorts of adventure comic books.
"Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications," which includes 40 works, will survey his almost-70-year career, from early expressionist paintings of the 1950s to recent canvases representing nude models among works of folk art.
For the centennial of Willem de Kooning's birth, this exhibition of 14 canvases represents a jubilant skip through his long career, with emphasis on his relationship to landscape.
Other works on view include a display of German artist Albert Oehlen's apocalyptic paintings, as well as works by Jenny Holzer, Jeff Wall, and LA artist Sterling Ruby, whose two-paneled spray-painted canvases represent a failed utopia.
Two large canvases here each represent three people frozen in enigmatic dancelike postures, in reaction to a butterfly in one case and to a bird in the other.
Vibrant, shimmering canvases by Willard Metcalf and Theodore Robinson represent the dedicated American artists who participated in the art colony at Giverny, Monet's village in France.
Unfortunately this show is spread thin, its 45 canvases, many on the small side, representing a dozen different painting series.
Dowlatabadi's paintings were minimalist canvases showing what looked like bunched-up knots, representing people, hanging from ropes.
Warhol sent Blum thirty-two 20 x 16 in canvases of Campbell's Soup can portraits, each representing a particular variety of the Campbell's Soup flavors available at the time.
Two major series (Apostolados) survive representing Christ and the Twelve Apostles in 13 canvases: one in the sacristy of Toledo Cathedral (1605 10) and another, unfinished set (1612 14) in the El Greco House and Museum at Toledo.
And, rather than deny the essential flatness of the painting support by using traditional methods of representing volume and texture, Robert Rauschenberg and Jim Dine attached real objects and textures to the painted surface, and Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland designed their irregularly shaped canvases to be seen as explicitly flat art objects.
