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Robert Indiana: Hard Edge

Past exhibition
September 18 – November 1, 2008 293 Tenth Avenue, New York
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  • Robert Indiana, a major figure of post-war American art, draws his subject matter from the visual vernacular of highway road signs, factory die-cut stencils, and commercial logos both remembered from childhood and encountered after he left home for Chicago and New York City. A pioneer of the verbal-visual motif, a rigorous formalist, and a master colorist, Indiana’s carefully-conceived permutations of his iconic imagery in painting, print-making, and sculpture are both instantly recognizable and culturally resonant. Distilling several stylistic trajectories into a single concentrated image, Indiana deploys recognizable words, symbols, and emblems in ways that reveal their structural power and also express the artist’s social and spiritual concerns.  For each composition, Indiana works through successive stages of image-making, beginning in drawing and painting and culminating in the translation of his flat, hard-edged compositions into vibrantly-colored, voluptuous sculpture. The smooth lines, calligraphic curves, and geometric rigor retains the work’s connection to Indiana’s artistic and cultural heritage of early American modernism, especially Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, while the dramatic scale and three-dimensional solidity transform Indiana’s pictorial candor into independent forms with architectural aspirations.

    Artwork © Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • Works
    • Robert Indiana, LOVE WALL, Red Red, 1966-2007
      Robert Indiana, LOVE WALL, Red Red, 1966-2007
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    • Robert Indiana, Eight, 1980-2001
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    • Robert Indiana, ART, Red Blue, 1972-2001
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    • Robert Indiana, ONE through ZERO, 1978-2003
      Robert Indiana, ONE through ZERO, 1978-2003
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    • Robert Indiana, The Electric EAT, 1964-2007
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    • Robert Indiana, AHAVA, 1977-2000
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    • Robert Indiana, AMOR, Red Yellow, 1998
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    • Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1966-2002
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  • About the Artist

    Robert Indiana

    Robert Indiana

    One of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, Robert Indiana (1928–2018) played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop art. Indiana, a self-proclaimed “American painter of signs,” created a highly original body of work that explores American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language, establishing an important legacy that resonates in the work of many contemporary artists who make the written word a central element of their oeuvre. His work continues to resonate through contemporary art and popular culture worldwide.  Indiana’s artwork has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, and his works are in the permanent collections of important museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Tate Modern, London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Menil Collection in Houston; the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands; MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien) in Vienna, Austria; the Art Museum of Ontario in Toronto; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He has also been included in numerous international publications and is the subject of a number of monographs.

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