MWPAI Bulletin October 2013

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Robert Indiana from A to Z: The Alphabet and the Icons October 19 thr ough Januar y 5

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n exhibition celebrating the career of Robert Indiana (b. 1928), will debut at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art October 19.

Robert Indiana from A to Z: The Alphabet and the Icons spans Indiana’s artistic career and features more than 75 works in all media including his icons LOVE, HOPE, and EAT. The exhibition is something of a homecoming for the artist, who, in 1947, took evening classes at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute while he was stationed in Rome, NY, serving in the United States Air Force. Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928, as Robert Clark. He moved to New York City in the 1950s and by the early 1960s had developed a personal artistic style of colorful, geometric form that was inspired by popular culture—stencils and urban signs in particular. In 1965, when the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, invited Indiana to design a holiday card, he created the iconic LOVE image, a timely message of good will in an era wracked by violence. Examples of this powerful hallmark of Pop Art will be included in The Alphabet and the Icons, along with his latest series, The Alphabet, which is the culmination of the 85-yearold artist’s journey using text as image. The exhibition, on view through January 5, 2014, is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog.

Exhibition Admission MWPAI Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE!

Book of Love, 2011, fabricated metal, powder coat and silkscreen in colors, 26 x 26 x 2 in. © 2013 Robert Indiana, courtesy of American Image Art

General Admission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10 Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5 Children 6 and younger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Free

ART, 2013, silkscreen in colors on triple prime canvas, 24 x 24 x 2 inches. ©2013 Robert Indiana, courtesy American Image Art

Robert Indiana, Red Gold Alphabet I, 2011, silkscreen and gold metallic ink on Coventry Rag Paper, 30 x 35 1/4 in., © 2013 Robert Indiana, courtesy American Image Art

You are cordially invited to the Members’ Reception Saturday, November 9, 2013 5 to 7 p.m. Edward Wales Root Sculpture Court Exhibition on view

October 19, 2013 through January 5, 2014 Reception also celebrates A Hole in the Sky, a Sculpture Court Project by Sam Van Aken Robert Indiana from A to Z: The Alphabet and the Icons was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, in association with American Image Art, Katonah, NY, and Rosenberg Fine Arts, Boca Raton, FL.

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