"This was his motivation behind bringing these artists together: to pay homage to them. Each artist is well represented by two large works and two works on paper, the one exception being an additional small painting by Murray, which, along with many of the other small works, came from Pfaff's collection. Indeed, this is a DIY exhibition, put together without support from an institution or a commercial gallery."
"These artists made no concession to what was fashionable then, and even now, when they've been inducted into the canon of American abstraction, it's clear that they relentlessly pursued their own trajectory, regardless of what was going on around them. All of this had a profound effect on David's work, as he readily admits. During an epoch that celebrated figurative painting and sculpture, and a return to conservative values in art, these four artists presented alternative possibilities."
Michael David organized an exhibition bringing together Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella to acknowledge their impact on painting. These artists advanced the relationship between space and flatness, the optical and literal, and abstraction and representation in the 1980s and 1990s. They pursued independent trajectories and resisted prevailing fashions, and their approaches had a profound effect on David's work. Each artist is represented by two large works and two works on paper, with an extra small Murray painting and several small works from Pfaff's collection. The exhibition was assembled independently, and Murray and Pfaff combined innovation, humor, and domestic objects in their practice.
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