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Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler

Rose Art Museum

February 11–June 7, 2015

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Installation view: Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2015). Photo: Charles Mayer

Girdle, 1971 Cloth and acrylic

Girdle, 1971
Cloth and acrylic
52 1/4 x 53 in (132.72 x 134.62 cm)
Private Collection

Press Release

Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler
Rose Art Museum, Boston, MA.

The exhibition takes the artist Helen Frankenthaler as a lens through which to refocus visions of modernist art over the past 50 years. In this version, decoration, humor, femininity and masculinity, the everyday, pleasure, and authorial control take center stage. Artists from the 1950s through the present work in a range of mediums, finding personal, social and political meaning in materiality. Curated by Katy Siegel.