On view in the Bearden Foundation Gallery April 4-July 31, 2008:

Romare Bearden’s “Composition Lessons” includes 16 collages, prints, and 2 oil paintings that examine the way in which Bearden’s composition reveal his approach to structure in his art. This group of works was chosen to illustrate a few key points that Bearden wrote or spoke about in interviews. Featured, are selections from his popular “Projections” series of 1964, which he references in his seminal 1969 article titled “The Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings’ published in Leonardo, a journal published by International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology.

Bearden believed that art is interaction, that it is a conversation between an artist and a vast audience from different places and different times.  He studied the diaries and writings of other artists in an effort to unlock the structural and compositional intricacies of his paintings and the paintings of others.  Through the exhibition, the Foundation examines how his approach to composition as well as his writings on other artists have provided instructional lessons.  

Gallery hours are by appointment M-F 10-5

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