On Tuesday evening, March 20, Dr. John Curley, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Wake Forest University will give the lecture,
“Reframing High Modernist Painting: The Case of Morris Louis.” 

The paintings of Morris Louis are hallmarks of a hermetic American modernism that seem far removed from the political
and social concerns of the 1960s. In this talk, Prof. Curley will use Louis’s painting as a means to explore the ways that art
and science had become uncanny doppelgangers by the early part of the decade. When considered as expressions of a
technocratic turn in American culture, the paintings of Morris Louis escape the modernist straightjacket and find unruly
siblings in figures like Andy Warhol and Jean Tinguley.

The lecture will take place Tuesday, March 20, from 5:30-7:00pm. Funding provided by the John Rewald Endowment of the Ph.D. Program in Art History

[pictured: Morris Louis, Saraband, (1959) Acrylic resin on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.]