05/26/2026
NEW EXHIBITION OPENING 📣✨
We are proud to announce Abstraction as Legacy, our America250 exhibition now on view at the Freedom Tower.
The act of painting can make history. Through hard edges and expressive forms, U.S. artists re-imagined painting and used abstraction as a mechanism to consider the human body, natural environs, architecture, emotion, and an economy of line.
This exhibition is not meant to be exhaustive but intended to highlight the breadth of painterly abstraction in the United States. In the 1950s, increasingly turned the art world turned to the U.S. for ingenuity and boundary-breaking abstract art forms. From trends that arose in Havana and made it to the U.S. through exile to experiments developed in New York and Los Angeles, the legacy of American abstraction evolves as rich and varied.
The featured works include paintings by Young-Il Ahn, Sam Gilliam, Carmen Herrera, Hans Hofmann, Virginia Jaramillo, Lloyd Kiva New, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, George Morrison, Noemí Ruiz, Zilia Sánchez, and Vaughn Spann. A salon-style installation honors works on paper from the collection with works by artists Ilya Bolotowky, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Robert Huff, Karen Rifas, Raymond Saunders, and Robert Thiele.
On view from May 27 through October 18, 2026. Get your tickets at the link in bio.
📍Second Floor, Wolfson Gallery
📷Images by Oriol Tarridas
