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The painting is a square format with an outer gold square and an inner mustard colored square. The outer square features a line pattern that draws toward the center of the piece.

Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz, "Soft Peach Square", 1980. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Verne Westerberg. © 2024 Richard Anuszkiewicz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Dates

September 11, 2024-July 31, 2025

Location

Zimmerli Art Museum

71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Information

Admission at the Zimmerli is FREE to everyone. Tickets are not required for exhibitions

Crossing Borders: Geometric Abstraction 1960 to Now

Gallery Closure: This exhibition will be closed from March 10 to March 21 for rotation of artworks.

In the 1960s, important exhibitions of geometric abstraction cemented the reputations of artists who created colorful, hard-edged paintings that focused on composition and visual effects. While geometric abstraction had long been associated with Indigenous arts, textile design, and decorative embellishments, centering geometric abstraction as fine art gave it new visibility. In the decades since, artists have played with notions of hard-edged abstraction and expanded the style from two to three dimensions, from paint to crochet, prints on various surfaces, and photography. This exhibition, drawn from the Zimmerli’s collection with several loans from contemporary artists, explores the range of geometric abstraction across six decades, national boundaries, and a wide range of materials.

The exhibition is organized by Donna Gustafson, Chief Curator, Nicole Simpson, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Raven Manygoats, Graduate Assistant.

Generous support for bilingual text was provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

This exhibition is also supported by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Text reading "Art Bridges Foundation" with a purple arch connecting the words.
Logo with red Rutgers R and text that read "Rutgers the State University of New Jersey".
Logo with a circle and a red New Jersey State Council of the Arts logo in the center.

Exhibition Preview

Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz, Soft Peach Square, 1980. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Verne Westerberg. © 2024 Richard Anuszkiewicz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY 83.035.001

Fanny Sanin, Study for Composition No. 1 (4), 2009. Acrylic and graphite on paper. Gift of the artist. © 2024 Fanny Sanín / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2018.036.002

Sunny A. Smith, The Compass Rose from the portfolio Expose, 2008. 13-color screen print on linen cloth. Gift of Exit Art. Courtesy of the artist. 2013.001.002.06

Stephen Westfall, Persimmons, 2013. Oil and alkyd on canvas. Gift of Eve Aschheim and John Yau. © Stephen Westfall, courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York 2023.020.004