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Douglas Dreishpoon
On Helen Frankenthaler
Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 4pm EDT
On the occasion of Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, exhibition curator Douglas Dreishpoon, director of the Helen Frankenthaler catalogue raisonné, will discuss the works on view. Frankenthaler’s invention of the soak-stain technique expanded abstract painting’s possibilities while referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. During the 1990s, as her practice continued to evolve through the use of diverse media and processes, she naturally transitioned from tackling canvases on the floor to using larger sheets of paper laid out on the floor or on tabletops for easier accessibility. To join the online event, register at uncg.zoom.us.
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Douglas Dreishpoon
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988–2009
Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 5–7pm
Gagosian Shop, New York
Douglas Dreishpoon will sign copies of the book Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988–2009 at the Gagosian Shop, New York, to celebrate its recent publication. The first title to explore the late period of Frankenthaler’s art and life, the book features a new essay by Dreishpoon, director of the Helen Frankenthaler catalogue raisonné project and chief curator emeritus at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York. It accompanies the first major exhibition of Frankenthaler’s late work, curated by Dreishpoon for the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, in 2021, and on view at the Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, through November 2022. Published by Radius Books in conjunction with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the volume will be available for purchase at the event.
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988–2009 (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius Books in conjunction with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, 2022)
In Conversation
Douglas Dreishpoon, Ruth Fine, and Mark Pascale
Friday, April 20, 2018, 3–4pm
Art Institute of Chicago
www.artic.edu
Douglas Dreishpoon, director of the Helen Frankenthaler catalogue raisonné, will discuss Helen Frankenthaler’s printmaking processes with Ruth Fine, former curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and Mark Pascale, Janet and Craig Duchossois curator of prints and drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. The event is free with museum admission. RSVP at www.artic.edu.
Helen Frankenthaler, Yellow Span, 1968, trial proof 6 © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), West Islip, New York
Lecture
Douglas Dreishpoon
Helen Frankenthaler: Poetic Ambiguity
Friday, October 6, 2017, 5:30pm
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
New York
www.vassar.edu
Douglas Dreishpoon will give a lecture on the occasion of the exhibition Fluid Expressions: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler opening at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center on October 6. Dreishpoon is director of the catalogue raisonné project at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York City and chief curator emeritus at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. A reception in the Art Center follows the lecture.
Helen Frankenthaler, Japanese Maple, 2005 © 2017 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Pace Editions, Inc., New York
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