'This (MOMA) exhibition takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly declares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual or emotional power of particular colors gave way to the embrace of color as an ordinary commodity...the...quest for personal expression...instead became Andy Warhol's "I want to be a machine." The artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella's "Straight out of the can; it can't get better than that." This exhibition features the work of forty-four artists who take a position in which art and life mingle rather than remain separate, and where beauty is found in the everyday rather than in the ideal.'
Ann Temkin, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture
Link Online Interactive Exhibit, MOMA
Webby Award Nominee, 2009
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