Exhibitions : Past Exhibitions
Dan Christensen:
Forty Years of Painting
Date(s): October 23, 2009 thru January 31, 2010
This survey of paintings by Dan Christensen (1942–2007) documents his quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint, and pictorial space. Though associated with the Color Field movement, Christensen’s relentless experimentation with tools and techniques make him resistant to any one label or category but do place him among this country’s most ambitious abstract and gestural painters. A native Nebraskan, Christensen was a 1964 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute.
Organized by the Kemper Museum of
Contemporary Art, the exhibition will feature approximately 35 large-scale dynamic canvases from 1967-2007. Sheldon curator Sharon L. Kennedy contributed an essay on Christensen’s early years in Nebraska and Kansas City to the exhibition catalog. The Sheldon has loaned two paintings to the traveling exhibition.
An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on First Friday, November 6. On that evening Karen Wilkin, an art historian and critic from New York Studio School, will discuss the exhibition with Sharon Kennedy, Sheldon's Curator of Cultural and Civic Engagement.
To view images of works in the exhibition, please click: Dan Christensen Slide Show
To listen to a podcast of about five minutes, please click: Dan Christensen Podcast
To read or print an exhibition gallery guide, please click: Christensen Gallery Guide
This exhibition is made possible by the generosity of The Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation.
Location: Sheldon
