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opportunity to view Pollock’s breakthrough painting Mural
(1943) in proximity to works that expand and challenge the
meaning of the artist’s legacy. Knotted, Torn, Scattered:
Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism is organized by
KNOTTED, TORN, SCATTERED: Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections. Generous
SCULPTURE AFTER ABSTRACT funding for this exhibition is provided by the Edlis-Neeson
EXPRESSIONISM Foundation, Sotheby’s, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and
the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
New York - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Exhibition considers artistic explorations of scale, material,
and process. An exhibition of sculptural work by artists who
challenge and expand the legacy of Abstract Expressionism.
isolation, confrontation, and occupation.

Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract
Expressionism, is an exhibition that considers the diverse
ways that artists in the 1960s and ’70s responded to
the achievements of Abstract Expressionist painters
to formulate unique approaches to sculptural practice.
Knotted, Torn, Scattered features works from the
Guggenheim collection by Lynda Benglis, Maren Hassinger,
Robert Morris, Senga Nengudi, Richard Serra, and Tony
Smith. These artists saw in postwar painting urgent
questions about scale, material, and process. Robert Morris,
Untitled (Black Felt), ca. 1969, Felt, approximately 22 feet (670.5 cm), overall.
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Away
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, 91.3803. ©
from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural, offering a rare 2020 The Estate of Robert Morris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Shown in foreground: Tony Smith, Wingbone, 1962. Plaster, cloth
and wood, 26 x 25 x 118 inches (66 x 63.5 x 299.7 cm). Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased through prior gifts of Andrew
Powie Fuller and Geraldine Spreckels Fuller Bequest and Richard S. Zeisler
Bequest, 2013.7. © 2020 Estate of Tony Smith / Artists Rights Society
(ARS), New York

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