THE EXPRESSIONIST GESTURE

September 17 – November 24, 2004
Main Gallery, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art,        
Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA

Curated by Helen Mirkil

The eleven artists represented in this exhibition all owe a debt to the German Expressionist movement and/or the Abstract Expressionist movements. The compositions are varied and emotionally charged from haunting life-sized plaster figurative sculpture and gut-wrenching color lithographs and woodcuts in the tradition of Kathe Kollwitz, to small, narrow, luscious landscapes whose brushstrokes glide and crash into one another, large abstract paintings that challenge the viewer’s notion of stability and beauty, boldly collaged and wildly painted flowers exploding out of vessels that barely contain them, and calligraphic gestures of multicolor inks swirling and dancing on skin like parchment. Throughout the installation, there is a sense of movement which comes as a result of emotion – the gesture – the hand of the artist moves in concert with the subject matter in an expressionist gesture.

Photographs from the Opening Reception: Sunday, September 19, 2004

Ms. Robbins and 'Move Over Sylvia'	Three Pieces

  Ms. Robbins's Paintings and Drawings in the Exhibit

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