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A Celebration of Spring and Art at Bayly Art Museum First Friday Event 
April 6, 2000 -- The Bayly Museum of Art features a retrospective of the work of Adja Yunkers on Friday, April 7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibit, "Adja Yunkers: To Invent a Garden," runs through June 11. The most comprehensive exhibition ever of the artist's oeuvre. Best known for his Abstract Expressionist work, Yunkers was an exquisite collagist and printmaker, a foremost exponent of the woodcut and pastel media. Possessed with both poetic vision and technical virtuosity, defying classification, and fearful of stagnation, he continued to forge new paths until his death in 1983. During his long and prolific career he contributed to such important movements as German Expressionism, Surrealism, Social Realism, and Abstract Expressionism. Twice the recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship (1949 and 1954), he was a prominent teacher at the New School for Social Research and at Columbia University. The exhibition is guest curated by Marek Bartelik, a New York-based critic, art historian, and adjunct professor at Cooper Union. This exhibition is possible through the advice and assistance of the Yunkers Centennial Committee--Dore Ashton, Madlain Yunkers, Andrew Forge, and Ambassador Donald Blinken, and with financial support from the Judith Rothschild Foundation, the Bayly Art Museum Volunteer Board, FUNd, and anonymous gifts. On hand to help celebrate will be Zephyrus, the choral group under the direction of Paul Walker. They will present a concert of contemporary music featuring works by Arvo Part, Henryk Gorecki, John Tavener, and Morten Lauriden at 6 p.m. in the Museum. |
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