Mixed Dance

For our Winter exhibition, Mixed Dance, we offer some recent acquisitions as well as a selection of prints, editioned and unique works under $ 10,000. We continue to focus on international artists, many of whom are BIPOC and women.

For example, the Sam Gilliam screen print collage, Wind, 2005, is a great example of how the artist combines his love of printmaking with the constructed canvases he was making concurrently. The Alan Shield sprints from the Soft and Fluffy Gears series also combine the artist's love of assembling with sewing and craft.

And in the holiday spirit of gifting…and re-gifting, we have several works commissioned and created by artists as part of the Norton Family Christmas Project (1988-2018).

In 1988, retired computer entrepreneur Peter Norton (Norton Antivirus Software) initiated the Norton Family Christmas Project and began commissioning artists to create original, multiple-edition works that were mailed as holiday greetings to friends, colleagues, and selected institutions. 

The objects and artists’ books that comprise the Project collection are incredibly varied.  A sense of whimsy runs through many of the pieces: salt and pepper shakers become snow globes, a music box exhorts us to be silent.  Many works also have a sociopolitical focus, addressing issues as varied as slavery, AIDS, and gender identity.  Taken together, the Norton Family Christmas Project objects and artists’ books provide a wonderful snapshot of the last thirty years of activity in the art world at large, presenting the work of both emerging and more established artists.

We are pleased to have several of the works from this series available for the exhibition.

Artists in the exhibition include: Ansel Adams, Patricinio Barela, Harry Bertoia, Fred Brown, Stuart Davis, Douglas Denniston, Friedel Dzubas, Sam Gilliam, Joe Goode, Frederick Hammersley, Luchita Hurtado, Heather Hutchison, Jeff Koons, Bea Mandelman, Lee Mullican, Ken Price, Faith Ringgold, Alan Shields, Carrie Mae Weems, Frank Wimberley, and Richard Yarde.