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PLEASE JOIN US AT THE UNM ART MUSEUM
Exhibition Opening & Gallery Walk Through with UNM Painting Faculty
Jesse Reichek:Concerning the Mystical in Art
Opens Tuesday, October 2, 5:30pm
Light refreshments will be served.
Jesse Reichek: Concerning the Mystical in Art
October 2 - December 21, 2007
We're proud to present this exhibition of paintings by one of the most
prolific and least known post-war, American painters, Jesse Reichek. New
York gallery owner and "den mother of Abstract Expressionism describes
Reichek as "the most difficult man I have ever met. But the undiscovered
treasure of America." Reichek created his own formal and graphic
vocabulary, a lexicon of calligraphic squiggles, fat snaking lines and
mutating shapes, moving across grids of rectangles and squares. He used it
to explore what he called "the structure of process" -the systems
underlying ever-changing forms and energies, the flux of life. Like others
before him, Reichek blurred the distinction between figure and ground,
negative and positive, creating tension and movement that in his best
canvases give off a visual hum.
A remarkably disciplined man who created over 3000 paintings in the later
half of the 20th century, he chose not to exhibit his work for three
decades. Reichek, who died in 2005 at the age of 89, saw himself as a
working painter whose daily life involved his creative process. He had the
good fortune to make his living as a design professor at UC Berkeley where
he taught for thirty-two years. A mystical abstractionist in the line of
Klee, Kandinsky and Mondrian, he made his name in New York and Paris in the
1950s and '60s. He withdrew from the commercial art world in 1972 and just
painted in the countryside of Petaluma, California, seeking a connection
with some unknowable divine presence. In the history of modern art, Jesse
Reichek offers a unique and extraordinary accomplishment evident in this
careful selection of his vast artistic legacy.
Sara Otto-Diniz
Training and Development Consultant
University of New Mexico Art Museum
MSC04 2570
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 277-4010
http://UNMartmuseum.unm.edu
"The tour made me be able to look into the soul of a painting and its
meanings. Thank you." 7th grade student
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