Exposed! — Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art

August 15, 2009 – October 4, 2009

Since the 1960s a wide range of artists—including Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Ellen Gallagher—have made pictures that reference specific works of art and popular culture.  Displaying these paintings, prints, and photographs alongside images of their sources, Exposed! explores artistic strategies of quotation and appropriation.  The featured works present various relationships to their sources, from respectful homage to cultural critique.  The exhibition includes works of art by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Robert Colescott, Grace Hartigan, Ellen Gallagher, and Glenn Ligon, among others.  Some pieces are from the Delaware Art Museum’s collection, and some are on loan from private collections.

Mao, 1972 Andy Warhol (1928-1987) 2 from the portfolio of 10 screenprints printed on white paper, 36 x 36 inches Private Lender © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York Photo Credit: The Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc. / Art Resource, NY		Source: Portrait of Mao Tse-tung, c.1966, frontispiece for Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1966) Artist unknown Printed matter, 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches

This exhibition was organized by the Delaware Art Museum.

In Delaware, this exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

Runaway Nurse, 2006 Richard Prince (born 1949) Inkjet and acrylic on canvas, 110 1/4 x 66 x 1 1/2 inches Private Lender	Source: Cover art for Runaway Nurse, a novel by Florence Stuart (Macfadden-Bartell, 1964)

Heather Campbell Coyle, the curator for Exposed!, has created a blog about the exhibition. Check our her entries and leave your own comments at:

http://exposed-exhibition.blogspot.com/

Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1983 Grace Hartigan, 1922-2008 Oil on canvas, 78 1/2 x 72 inches Gift of Fay and Alfred Chandler, 1995	Source: Great Empresses and Queens Paper Dolls in Full Color, by Tom Tierney (Dover Publications, 1982) © Tom Tierney