Omdat collega Sander Goosen naar NYC reist en mij wat tips vroeg keek ik op de website van het Whitney museum. Daar kwam ik deze expositie van Mary Corse tegen en las ik dat ze ook in Dia:Beacon exposeert. Ik kende haar en haar werk niet, Dia schrijft in de introductie: A pioneer of light-based art, Mary Corse is one of the few women associated with the Light and Space movement that originated in Southern California in the 1960s.
En Whitney: Mary Corse’s first solo museum survey is a long overdue examination of this singular artist’s career. Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, CA) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement. She shared with her contemporaries a deep fascination with perception and with the possibility that light itself could serve as both a subject and material of art. Yet while others largely migrated away from painting into sculptural and environmental projects, Corse approached the question of light through painting.
Wow, Sander boft. Ik zou beide exposities ook graag zien.