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[http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/series/exhibition-related]PETER
SAUL IN CONVERSATION WITH MASSIMILIANO GIONI
COVER IMAGE:
PETER SAUL, _Ronald Reagan in Grenada_, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 82
1/2 × 71 in (209.6 × 180.3 cm). Hall Collection. Courtesy Hall Art
Foundation. Photo: Jeffrey Nintzel
Join us for a special CONVERSATION BETWEEN ARTIST PETER SAUL AND
MASSIMILIANO GIONI, _Edlis Neeson Artistic Director_ of the New Museum
and co-curator of “Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment,” the first
New York survey of Saul’s work. The conversation will take its cues
from Saul’s exhibition, which brings together approximately sixty
paintings spanning his six-decade career.
PETER SAUL was born in 1934 in San Francisco, CA. He received a BFA
from the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in
1956. He has been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2017); Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2017); Orange
County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA (2008); Pennsylvania Academy of
Arts, Philadelphia (2008); Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les
Sables d’Olonne, France (1999); Musée de l’Hôtel Bertrand,
Châteauroux, France (1999); Aspen Art Museum (1989); Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago (1989); Contemporary Austin – Laguna
Gloria, Austin (1989); Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (1989);
Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (1980); and
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (1980). His work has been included in
important group exhibitions including “Artists Respond: American Art
and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975,” Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC (2019); “Les années Pop, 1956–1968,” Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris (2001); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (1995); “Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in
Transition, 1955–1962,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
(1992); “Funk,” University Art Museum, University of California,
Berkeley (1967); and the Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh (1967). He lives in New York.
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Generous ongoing support is provided by the Charlotte and Bill Ford
Artist Talks Fund.
This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New
York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M.
Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Support for “PETER SAUL: Crime and Punishment” can be viewed here
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