ABSTRACT PAINTING AND BEYOND CONFERENCE

February 9 through 11, 2012

@ Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

and Terrace Room, Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania

Preceded by:

ARTIST TALK: CHARLINE VON HEYL

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 6:30 pm

@ Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

Let us say, if only for the sake of argument, that abstract painting began with Manet, and ended with Abstract Expressionism, and that there is a “beyond.” How would we conceptualize this “beyond”? Would we say that it is painting’s own return to figuration (Johns’s Targets and Flags, Warhol’s Marilyns)? The extension of abstraction into other mediums: drawing, sculpture, dance, photography, and digital images? Or is it perhaps something internal to abstract painting itself?something that our critical paradigms did not permit us to see, but that later painters have rendered visible? These are a few of the questions that this conference will address.

Abstract Painting and Beyond is inspired by, and will coincide with, an exhibition of Charline von Heyl’s paintings and drawings at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. The conference will begin with an evening conversation between von Heyl and Kaja Silverman, and continue over the following two days, with talks by a distinguished group of speakers.

SPEAKERS

Elise Archias, Nancy Davenport, André Dombrowski, Darby English, Briony Fer, Rachel Haidu, Michael Leja, Daniel Marcus, Christine Poggi, Anne M. Wagner, and Margaret Werth

For more information and free registration:

http://www.kajasilverman.com/abstract-painting-and-beyond-conference.php