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(Long Island City, NY, January,
2003) – P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center will present
an exhibition of works by Lee Lozano (b. 1930, Newark, New
Jersey), whose wide body of works included painting, drawing,
performance, and conceptual work.
The brief but extraordinary and intense career of Lee Lozano
has been a subject of rediscovery in the art world over
the past few years. Drawn from Life, the first major exhibition
of Lozano’s work since her death in 1999, focuses
on her drawings and notebook pages, with a selection of
related paintings, to reveal the complexity and depth of
an artist whose body of work remains elusive.
With over 150 works, many never before exhibited, or very
rarely seen, the show will present a portrait of Lozano
through explicitly humorous drawings from the early 60s;
tool paintings and drawings which led to volumetric and
perforated canvases in the mid-60s; studies for the Wave
Series, a group of eleven paintings made between 1967 and
1970 which engage Minimalism, Op/perceptual art, and installation;
and her last works which are among the most important, heady
conceptual investigations of the late 60s/early 70s. By
1971, Lozano had purposely abandoned her career, rejecting
the art world with Dropout Piece. More than thirty years
later, her life and work is a source of continuing fascination.
Lee Lozano was born Lenore Knaster in Newark, New Jersey
in 1930. She graduated from the University of Chicago in
1951, and was married to Adrian Lozano in 1956. After graduating
from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960, she traveled
for several months in Europe, and moved to New York upon
her return. Lozano's first one-person exhibition was at
the Bianchini Gallery in New York in 1966. Subsequent exhibitions
include Galerie Rolf Ricke in Cologne, Germany in 1969;
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1970/71;
Lisson Gallery in London in 1971; and the Wadsworth Atheneum
in Hartford in 1998. She lived in New York until 1972, moving
to Dallas, where she died in 1999.
This exhibition is curated by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss
and P.S.1 Curatorial Advisor Bob Nickas, and is made possible
by support from Harvey S. Shipley Miller and Susan G. Jacoby.
Special thanks also to Jaap van Liere and Barry Rosen of
the Estate of Lee Lozano.
For more information, please contact
Rachael Dorsey, P.S.1 Press Office, at press@ps1.org
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