Wangechi Mutu and Barnaby Furnas feature in Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, at the Frist Art Museum

The exhibition (22 June – 16 September 2018) features works that induce feelings of disturbance, mystery, and expansiveness through the portrayal of forces shaping and hastening social transformation in ways that are increasingly difficult to predict, such as globalism, ideological conflict, technology, science, and philosophy. 

 

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1. Wangechi Mutu, Funkalicious fruit field, 2007

Ink, paint, mixed media, and plastic pearls on Mylar, 92 1/8 x 106 in.

Collection of Glenn Scott Wright, London

Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London / Venice

© Wangechi Mutu

 

2. Barnaby Furnas, Untitled (Flood), 2007

Urethane on linen; support: 84 x 140 in.

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2010, 2010:12

© Barnaby Furnas

Photography: Tom Loonan

 

 

 
June 19 2018