ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION TO LAUNCH WE THE PEOPLE EXHIBIT and WE THE PEOPLE TV, A PORTRAIT OF THE AMERICAN POPULACE TO COINCIDE WITH THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Curated by Alison Gingeras, Jonathan Horowitz and Anna McCarthy, the exhibition will be a conjectural exploration of American identity politics against the backdrop of this year's political debates.
October 3–November 17, 2012
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space
455 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday–Saturday
Free admission
WE THE PEOPLE
Curated by Alison Gingeras, Jonathan Horowitz and Anna McCarthy
We the People will create a diorama of the American populace using strategically chosen examples of figurative painting, sculpture, and photography. Works from American artists of older generations―including Romare Bearden, George
Segal, Margaret Bourke-White, Alice Neel, Duane Hanson, Alex Katz, and Robert Rauschenberg—will be installed in cacophonous dialogue with works by a younger generation of artists—Tina Barney, Fred Wilson, Elizabeth Peyton, Barkley L. Hendricks, Nicole Eisenman, and Danny McDonald. This exhibition includes new works made for the show by artists Nate Lowman, Julio Cesar Morales, Richard Phillips and Swoon.
Left, Norman Rockwell, Four Freedoms-Freedom from Want, 1943 and right, Danny McDonald, Restricted Access to Medical Care (The Mummies), 2008
Painting Above: Richard Phillips