Author Description

Andrew Weyth once said, "My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash--like something you caught out of the corner of your eye." He also called himself an abstract artist, a provocative claim from a painter best known for realism. Through a remarkable body of unexhibited works on paper from the collection of the Weyth Foundation for American Art that ranges across six decades, this exhibition explores broadly what abstraction meant to Weyth and the role it played in his art making. From this material, a novel understanding of an iconic artist emerges: an American original actively engaged with new currents in the art world who used a startlingly free and fierce method when it suited his goals, and for whom a visionary transformation of an observed subject into abstracted form and gesture was a fundamental aspect of his practice. --