: Known for her iconic images of flowers, bones and the American
Southwest, Georgia O'Keeffe was not only a pioneer of Twentieth
Century American art, but was in the forefront of American
abstraction. A new exhibition at the Albright Knox Art Gallery,
"Georgia O'Keeffe: A Sense of Place," seeks to reveal her
lifelong commitment to abstraction by revisiting her New Mexico
landscapes; it encourages the viewer, with the aid of
site-specific photographs, to see a more abstracted relationship
between subject and painting.
The exhibition shows that O'Keeffe did not faithfully represent
the land in which she lived, but instead, created selective and
subjective explorations of the landscapes through her use of
color and shape. "Georgia O'Keeffe: A Sense of Place" will be at
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery until May 8.
