Untitled (Primary Title)
David Novros, American, born 1941 (Artist)
Fifty Works for Fifty States: In 2008, in a unique partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Vogels distributed twenty-five hundred works across the country, giving fifty works to one art museum in each of the fifty states. This exhibition, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, showcases the fifty works VMFA received as part of that initiative, which bears the same title. As a diverse and rich body of work, the Vogels' generous giftattests to their passion and commitment to sharing contemporary art with the public.
David Novros: Novros began his career in the mid-1960s and is known for both his shaped canvases and his fresco mural paintings. Despite the cool geometry of these works, Novros identifies with the Abstract Expressionists a generation before him: The strongest contemporary influences on me have been the painters of the 1950s, primarily Pollock, Rothko, and Kline. I was influenced especially by their commitment to painting as a means of expressing some kind of hidden truth. In his large shaped canvases, he frequently combines separate, monochromatic panels of different colors into one painting. Likewise, in his ink wash Untitled, two separate sheets ofpaper are taped together. However, here the expressive gestural marks share much in common with the artists he openly admires, especially Franz Kline.
David Novros: Novros began his career in the mid-1960s and is known for both his shaped canvases and his fresco mural paintings. Despite the cool geometry of these works, Novros identifies with the Abstract Expressionists a generation before him: The strongest contemporary influences on me have been the painters of the 1950s, primarily Pollock, Rothko, and Kline. I was influenced especially by their commitment to painting as a means of expressing some kind of hidden truth. In his large shaped canvases, he frequently combines separate, monochromatic panels of different colors into one painting. Likewise, in his ink wash Untitled, two separate sheets ofpaper are taped together. However, here the expressive gestural marks share much in common with the artists he openly admires, especially Franz Kline.
signed on verso: DN '92
directional arrows on verso indicating A as top and B and bottom
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, July 27 - October 20, 2013
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