The list of painters associated with Black Mountain College is a who’s who of mid-20th century artists. From influential and groundbreaking Europeans like Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, and Theodoros Stamos to profoundly original Americans including Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Elaine de Kooning, Kenneth Noland, Dorothea Rockburne, Cy Twombly, and Jack Tworkov, the cumulative impact these painters have had on the history and trajectory of art is remarkable.
Read MoreThis October, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens the first comprehensive U.S. museum exhibition on Black Mountain College (BMC), a small, experimental school in North Carolina whose influence on art practice and pedagogy still has profound impact today. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 focuses on how, despite its brief existence, Black Mountain College became a seminal meeting place for many of the artists, musicians, poets, and thinkers who would become leading practitioners of the postwar period. Figures such as Anni and Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ruth Asawa, Robert Motherwell, Gwendolyn and Jacob Lawrence, Cy Twombly, Jack Tworkov, Franz Kline, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley taught and studied at the college, among many others.
Read MoreAlexander Gray Associates presents Jack Tworkov: Mark and Grid, 1931–1982, its first exhibition of work by Jack Tworkov, since recently becoming the representative of the artist’s Estate. The exhibition examines the artist’s stylistic progression featuring work from different decades, and highlighting his conceptual approach to painting during the 1960s and 1970s.
Read MoreThe Asheville Art Museum presents Jack Tworkov: Beyond Black Mountain College / Selected Works 1952-1982, March 27-June 14, 2015.
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Join us on Saturday, October 22 at 4:00pm for an afternoon with independent curator Jason Andrew, as he discusses his recent exhibition and publication: Jack Tworkov: Accident of Choice, The Artist at Black Mountain College 1952.
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Published on the occasion of the historic exhibition "Jack Tworkov: Accident of Choice, The Artist at Black Mountain College 1952" at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, June 17-September 17, 2011, this fully illustrated catalogue features a survey of paintings and drawings by Abstract Expressionist Jack Tworkov ranging from 1945-1952 including the " House of the Sun" paintings, one of the artists most celebrated series.
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Jack Tworkov, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Accident of Choice, 1952Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville is pleased to present Jack Tworkov: The Accident of Choice, the artist at Black Mountain College. Organized and curated by Jason Andrew, this historic exhibition includes important works by Jack Tworkov, who taught painting at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1952. On view will be paintings and drawings by Tworkov ranging from 1948-52 including works from one of the artist's most noted series, House of the Sun that began at Black Mountain College.
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