Exhibitions
Alex Bacon: Landon Metz and the Legacy of Color Field Painting
May 26, 2015
Presented in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis, this free, one-day symposium used CAM’s exhibitions on the work of Joe Goode and Jesse Howard as a point of departure. Joe Goode and Jesse Howard: Thy Kingdom Come offer unique views of the Midwest, providing a framework for scholars to present research on topics such as the lived Midwestern experience, materiality and the monochrome, and self-taught American aesthetics. Moderated by CAM’s Chief Curator Jeffrey Uslip and Ila Sheren, Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Alex Bacon is a scholar, writer, and curator based in New York City. He is a regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail and is currently completing his PhD in art history at Princeton with a dissertation on the first decade of Frank Stella’s career. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts and has served as a guest critic in the graduate painting department of the Rhode Island School of Design and AKV/St. Joost. Bacon has curated several exhibitions, including Correspondences: Ad Reinhardt at 100 (Ad Reinhardt Foundation, New York); Politics of Surface (Berthold Pott, Cologne); 173 E. 94th St./ Chaussée de Waterloo 550 (Paul Kasmin in collaboration with Middlemarch, Brussels); 24/7 (Monte Carlo, Miami Beach); and Lumination (Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad). He has been writer-in-residence at The Miami Rail and a judge for the Wynn Newhouse Awards. Bacon is co-editor, with Hal Foster, of a collection of essays on Richard Hamilton (MIT Press, 2009) as well as the author of texts in catalogs and edited volumes on artists such as Francis Alÿs, Richard Pousette-Dart, Gilbert & George, Robert Irwin, Zak Kitnick, and Ad Reinhardt.
