University at Buffalo Art Galleries: Gift of Rebecca Anderson, 1988: Joan Mitchell, "Ode To Joy, o/c, 1970-71, in "Selections from the Permanent Collection" of the UB ANDERSON GALLERYBuffalo, N.Y., --The UB Anderson Gallery is pleased to present Selections from the Permanent Collection, an exhibition of important works from the gallery’s own collection, featuring artists Joan Mitchell, Anton Tapiés, Michael Goldberg, and Sam Francis.
Selections from the Permanent Collection opens April 28th and runs through the beginning of August.
Robert Scalise, Assistant Director for Exhibitions and Collections of the UB Anderson Gallery, selected works from the UB Anderson Gallery’s permanent collection by artists who shared a long history with Martha Jackson and David Anderson. These works, not always on public view at the UB Anderson Gallery, are historically important to the collection and to art history in general. Martha Jackson regularly exhibited work by New York artists Joan Mitchell, Michael Goldberg, Lester Johnson, Norman Bluhm, and Paul Jenkins. The exhibition also includes work by Julian Stanczak, Clayton Pond, and Seymour Boardman, artists that David Anderson exhibited during the early years of the Anderson Gallery in Buffalo.
The exhibition features a 1970–71 work by the well-known Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell (1926–1992) entitled “Ode to Joy.” The painting is an instance of the artist working structurally in a triptych to order color and form in a rhythmic sequence. Also on view is work by the California Bay-area artist Frank Lobdell (b. 1921), one of Martha Jackson’s gallery artists. Lobdell’s long and distinguished career includes contributions to the Abstract Expressionist movement, such as the painting “November 1957,” included here. An example of the work of Antoni Tàpies, another of Martha Jackson’s gallery artists, has work in the exhibition. According to Scalise, Tàpies, born in Barcelona, was introduced to Martha Jackson through the influential French critic Michel Tapié. Consequently, Tàpies was given his first one-man show in the US by Martha Jackson.
Selections from the Permanent Collection of the UB Anderson Gallery offers a glimpse into the groundbreaking and continuous contributions to the field of collecting that Martha Jackson and her son, David K. Anderson, perpetuated.
About the UB Anderson Gallery: Martha Jackson (1907-1969), née Martha Kellogg, was born in Buffalo. She nurtured an early interest in art by volunteering at the Albright Art Museum (now the Albright Knox Art Gallery) and became a passionate collector and champion of Abstract Expressionists and 20th century American artists through her work as a gallerist in New York City. In October 1991, David K. Anderson opened the Anderson Gallery on Martha Jackson Place (named in honor of his mother) in the former School 83 of Buffalo’s University Heights neighborhood. The UB Anderson Gallery is now an architecturally impressive museum showcasing contemporary art, and is home to Martha Jackson’s archives and a remainder of her collection.