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The UBS Art Gallery
On Paper: The Lincoln Center/List Collection
Organized by the Lincoln Center/List Collection and sponsored by UBS
On view at The UBS Art Gallery, May 1 – July 25, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, May 8, 2008
NEW YORK CITY, March 2008 — In honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The UBS Art Gallery (1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York City) will present a collection of rarely seen works by contemporary artists from May 1 through July 25, 2008. On Paper: The Lincoln Center/List Collection will be the first comprehensive exhibition of works from the List Fine Art Poster & Print Program, which commissions leading visual artists to create posters and prints in tribute to Lincoln Center. The exhibition will feature more than 60 special edition prints and 10 fine art posters commissioned between 1962 and 2007 from artists such as Marc Chagall, Chuck Close, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Ben Shahn, Joel Shapiro and Andy Warhol.
On Paper will celebrate the vision of founder Vera List, whose support of emerging artists
and desire to introduce the public to innovative works led to the creation of many
groundbreaking pieces on view in the show. An early supporter of the development of
Lincoln Center with her husband Albert, Vera List proposed a visual arts program for the
new performing arts center inspired by the European posters that enticed patrons to attend
the opera, ballet, theater and film.
On Paper: The Lincoln Center/List Collection is made possible by UBS.
Mrs. List visited galleries and studios meeting with artists and dealers to commission posters, leaving style, subject matter and print medium to be determined by the individual artists. Having innovative works of art promote the performances at Lincoln Center was key to the development of her idea. The List Collection program was launched in 1962 with a dynamic serigraph poster by Ben Shahn, featuring an energetic organist, that announced the grand opening of Philharmonic Hall. Other early posters by Marc Chagall, Larry Rivers, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol, which publicized or commemorated Lincoln Center programming, will also be on view in the exhibition.
In 1970, the List Collection broadened its scope by publishing the first signed and numbered print edition, a lithograph by James Rosenquist of three strips of film rendered in bright primary colors. Ever since, the List Collection has produced four to six signed editions of prints each year, and has become one of the longest continually publishing print programs in the country. A highlight of the program on view at The UBS Art Gallery will be a suite of six screen prints by the abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler dating from 1996 to 2005, which constitutes the largest single-artist holding in the List Collection.
The exhibition includes works from movements spanning the last five decades of contemporary art, including Minimalism, Pop Art, Color Field and Abstract Expressionism. Jennifer Bartlett’s Houses (2005) treats a simple view of three houses, rendered using small dots of bright color, realistically and as an abstraction. Vija Celmins is represented in the exhibition by an image of water entitled Ocean With Cross #1 (2005). In this natural photo-based scene, the composition lacks a point of reference or horizon, making the subject seem both particular and limitless at the same time.
Jules Olitski, a central figure in the development of abstract and Color Field painting, uses stains and sprays of dark color in his work Mozart Nights (1992). An untitled 1996 print by the sculptor Joel Shapiro is a dynamic composition of simple black rectangular shapes and one bright blue square clearly relating to his three dimensional work. Gerhard Richter’s piece Eis II (2003), literally translated as “ice,” features a white pigment pulled down over a darker field punctuated by incidents of color.
| Lincoln Center/List Collection | |||||||
The List Collection consists of high-grade prints created by leading artists to commemorate Lincoln Center presentations. The print series of each work is signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Each print is a serigraph, with each color coming from an individual screen. This method combines hand-drawn and mechanical techniques, and is closely supervised by the artist during the process. At the end of each limited run (approximately 108 prints), all screens are destroyed, which prevents duplication and increases the value of the works.
The Lincoln Center/List Print Program is non-profit, with general sales proceeds going toward the support of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., and the Program itself. For further information about the List Art collection and to view the online gallery, visit the website at www.LincolnCenter.org/printsposters. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. As a presenter of more than 400 events annually, LCPA’ s programs include American Songbook, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Live From Lincoln Center. In addition, LCPA is leading a series of major capital projects on behalf of the resident organizations across the campus. For more information on Lincoln Center, visit www.LincolnCenter.org. |
Top| The UBS Art Gallery |
UBS has a longstanding and ongoing commitment to the support of the arts and culture. UBS sponsors four exhibitions each year in The UBS Art Gallery, located in the lobby of its building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York City. Through its exhibition program, the Gallery offers non-profit arts and cultural organizations a midtown Manhattan exhibition space and the opportunity to introduce their programs to a new audience. The UBS Art Gallery enables many institutions to organize and mount exhibitions that might not otherwise be seen. These exhibitions encourage interest in the arts among the hundreds of employees, clients and members of the general public who pass through the UBS building each day. UBS also has its own art collection. Recognized internationally as one of the most important corporate collections of contemporary art, The UBS Art Collection comprises more than 1000 paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures and video by many of the world’s leading artists from 1950 to the present. UBS is proud of this heritage of collecting and embraces the Collection as a treasure to be shared with our employees, clients, shareholders and other individuals passionate about art through international loans and tours of selected works. To further share our Collection with the public, UBS provides permanent online access to works in the Collection, information on the artists and online exhibitions via an interactive web museum at www.ubs.com/artcollection. UBS is one of the world’s leading financial firms, serving a discerning international client base. Its business, global in scale, is focused on growth. As an integrated firm, UBS creates added value for clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all its businesses. UBS is the leading global wealth manager, a top tier investment banking and securities firm, and one of the largest global asset managers. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in 50 countries, with about 39% of its employees working in the Americas, 33% in Switzerland, 16% in the rest of Europe and 12% in Asia Pacific. UBS's financial businesses employ more than 80,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SWX Swiss Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). |
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The UBS Art Gallery is located in the UBS Building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas
(between 51st and 52nd Streets) in New York City. The Gallery is on the ground floor of
the building and exhibition hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
Admission is free. |
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