LACMA Ellsworth Kelly Exhibit

The LACMA exhibit, Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings, is the first retrospective examination of Kelly's exceedingly prolific print practice since 1988.

American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings is the first retrospective examination of Kelly's exceedingly prolific print practice since 1988. The exhibition includes over 100 prints, the majority from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, and five paintings.  In the words of catalogue raisonné author, Richard Axsom, Kelly's prints "exchange the totemic presence, the tangible physicality and public assertiveness of the paintings and sculptures for the qualities no less genuine in registering Kelly's vision: intimacy, delicacy, and in nearly immaterial veils of shape and color, an unmatched ethereality."  Kelly's works will be on display in the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Level 2 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).