Action/Abstraction
Action/Abstraction
The Jewish Museum, New York
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976. The first major U.S. Exhibition in twenty years to rethink Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed, viewed from the perspectives of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, the artists, and popular culture.
Tsao & McKown’s design of the Action/Abstraction exhibit is the latest in a decade of collaboration with the Jewish Museum. Previous exhibits that Tsao & McKown designed for The Jewish Museum include: Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, 2008 Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider, 2003 Adolph Gottlieb: A Survey Exhibition, 2002 John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, 1999 An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine, 1999
