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With Satisfaction: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 19721985 is the very first full-blown scholarly survey of this groundbreaking American art motion, including operate in painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, installation art, and efficiency documentation. Covering the years 1972 to 1985 and featuring around fifty artists from across the United States, the exhibition examines the Pattern and Decor motion's bold accept of types typically coded as womanly, domestic, ornamental, or craft-based and believed to be categorically inferior to art.
Their work across mediums pointedly stimulates a pluralistic variety of sources from Islamic architectural ornamentation to American quilts, wallpaper, Persian carpets, and domestic embroidery. Pattern and Decoration artists practiced a postmodernist art of appropriation borne of love for its sources instead of the negative detachment that ended up being de rigueur in the international art world of the 1980s.
Though little studied today, the Pattern and Design movement was institutionally recognized, critically received, and commercially successful from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The overwhelming preponderance of craft-based practices and unabashedly ornamental perceptiveness in art of the present-day indicate an influential P&D tradition that is ripe for consideration. With Enjoyment: Pattern and Decor in American Art 19721985 is organized by Anna Katz, Manager, with Rebecca Lowery, Assistant Manager, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Major support is offered by MOCA Projects Council and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. Extra assistance is provided by Clinton Hill/Allen Tran Foundation, Helen N. Lewis and Marvin B. Meyer Charitable Fund in Caring Memory of Marvin B. Meyer, and Thomas Solomon and Kimberly Mascola. This Is Cool at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Exhibitions with significant funding offered by The Offield Family Foundation and generous financing provided by Dr.
Holland Foundation, Nathalie Marciano and Julie Miyoshi, Steven and Jerri Nagelberg, Beth Redmond, and Jonathan M. Segal through the Rhonda S. Zinner Foundation. This exhibition will travel to Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College from June 26 - November 28, 2021.
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