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Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
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Heat Waves in a Swamp will be the first major Charles Burchfield exhibition to be mounted on the west coast and the first in New York for more than twenty years. Arranged chronologically, it approaches Burchfield’s work with a new perspective facilitated in part by the curatorial sensibilities of Robert Gober. Working with Hammer coordinating curator Cynthia Burlingham, Gober has augmented a large selection of watercolors with the inclusion of extensive biographical material that continually infuses Burchfield’s own thoughts about his work and artistic practice.

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The Menil Collection
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The Menil Collection is a museum dedicated to preserving and exhibiting the art collection of Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil. Its diverse holdings represent many world cultures and thousands of years of human creativity, from prehistoric times to the present day. Assembled over the course of many decades, the collection—which continues to grow—is widely recognized for its depth and eclecticism. At the Menil visitors view art in a tranquil, contemplative setting.

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The Meat Wagon, an article
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Invited by chief curator Matthew Drutt to rummage through the Menil Collection's ecumenical holdings, Robert Gober came up with The Meat Wagon at once a memento mori and a transcendent vision. The exhibition was installed in four galleries of varying size, each painted a color that corresponds with rooms in John and Dominique de Menil's home. Correspondence, in many forms, was key to plumbing the mysteries of this installation, which combined works by Gober with carefully selected art and artifacts from the Collection.

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How Burchfield Reconstructed His Paintings, a video
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Later in his career Charles Burchfield began to make monumental pieces created by literally transforming a number of small-scale watercolors from 1916-1918. He would paste large strips of paper around the early watercolors to increase their size and rework these new compositions into unusually large ecstatic watercolor visions. This return to his roots results in an explosion of color and created the basis for his in the late, transcendental watercolors in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Heat Waves in a Swamp curator Robert Gober is a sculptor who has exhibited widely in both the U.S and abroad. In 2001 he was chosen to represent the United States in the 49th Venice Biennale. His other curatorial work includes The Meat Wagon at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas (2005), and Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, and Nancy Shaver: Black and White Photographs 1975-77 at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (1999). Donna De Salvo is chief curator and associate director of programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and former senior curator at Tate Modern. She is also a noted expert on the work of Andy Warhol and helped to establish the curatorial and archival programs for the Andy Warhol Museum, where she served as adjunct curator.

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