BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART
LEGACY IN CONTINUUM: BAY AREA FIGURATION
March 22 – May 27, 2012
This exhibit features artwork by Bay Area figurative artists from the
past to the present. After World War II, artists working in New York
began to shift their school of thought from figurative painting to
non-objective works with unconventional tools concerned more with
expression than construction. Figurative work had become passé. As a
possible response to this movement, artists in San Francisco began to
deconstruct the figure rather than destroy it completely. They sought to
reconcile the two genres, creating a distinctive style that is still
present today. Nearly 60 years later, there are approximately three
generations of Bay Area figurative artists. This exhibition features
fifteen outstanding artists, which embodies the very first generation of
Bay Area Figurative artists as well as the ripples the Bay Area
Figurative Movement created and has passed on to generations of artists
across the world.
Participating Artists:
Eduardo Alvarado, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Brown, Suhas Bhujbal, Richard
Diebenkorn, John Goodman, Nathan Oliveira, Dennis Hare, Mitchell
Johnson, Paul Wonner, Kim Frohsin, Waldemar Mitrowski, Siddharth
Parasnis, Brook Temple.
