Abstraction in the shadow of conceptual art
Panel discussion
Join us in person at the Museum for a panel discussion related to our current exhibition Light & Darkness.
If the conceptual art of the late 1960s is seen as the crucial hinge from modernism to contemporary art, what role does abstraction play for 'post-conceptual' artists today?
Speakers
Susan Best is Professor of Art History and Theory at Queensland College of Art. Her latest book is titled, It's not personal: Post 60s body art and performance (2021).
Elizabeth Pulie is an artist and painting lecturer at the National Art School. Her collected writings were published as Reader: 2001–2020 (2022).
ADS Donaldson is an artist and art historian at the National Art School. His career spans over two decades with a profound interest in abstraction.
Convenor
Dr Ann Stephen is the Senior Curator of the University Art Collection at the Chau Chak Wing Museum and the editor of Light & Darkness: Late Modernism & the JW Power Collection (2021).
Header image: Luis Tomasello, Atmosphère chromoplastique no. 154 (Chromosplastic atmosphere no. 154), 1966. Purchased with funds from the JW Power Bequest 1967. JW Power Collection, PW1967.26.