Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Inside Out and Selected Abstraction, 1940s-90s

Anish Kapoor was born in India and educated in London, where, in the 1980s, he became part of a group of young artists who reinvigorated British sculpture.  In the mid-1990s, Kapoor began working with cast metal, the result being works like Turning the World Inside Out. An organic sphere cast in stainless steel and then highly polished, this work is a synthesis of Kapoor’s South Asian roots and his Western European education. 

Selected Abstraction, 1940s–90s presents a diverse range of paintings from local and the Museum’s collections that stem from, but are not necessarily the most common, names found in the orthodox history of Abstract Expressionism. Beginning with offshoots of Lyrical Abstraction (Tachisme) in Europe, moving through various New York styles, and ending up in Southern California, this exhibition treads an eclectic course through the legacy of Abstraction.  Artists include Helen Frankenthaler, Clinton Hill, Hans Hofmann, John Millei, Ed Moses, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Kenzo Okada, Richards Ruben, John Seery, Mark Tobey, Jack Tworkov, and Ulfert Wilke.