The Maslow Collection: Context and Content
Symposium: Collecting in the 80s - Looking Back at a Process and a Period
of Multiple Possibilities
Mahady Gallery, Marywood University: August 30 - October 3, 2010
Symposium: Mahady Gallery, Sunday September 19th, 2:00 p.m.
The concurrent exhibitions at the Mahady Gallery and the Maslow Study Gallery
for Contemporary Art , and the Sordoni Gallery at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre
share a common theme of collecting in the 80s and early 90s titled The Maslow
Collection: Context and Content.
The installations of works from The Maslow Collection in the Mahady Gallery
and the Maslow Study Gallery address the growth of The Maslow Collection from
the early 80s to the early 90s and cover the full range and diversity of artists
and works collected. The installation at the Sordoni Gallery focuses on collecting
during a one year period of time, 1991. By 1991 the Maslows had been collecting
for nearly 10 years and thus to examine this one year in depth enables us to
see both the addition of works by artists already in the Collection, as well
as the inclusion of a few new artists to the Collection. [See installation images
and list of works in the Sordoni exhibition below.]
Marilyn and Richard Maslow began collecting art in 1982 with the assistance
and advice from New York City artists and art consultants Tony and Gloria Sorce.
From the outset they began to set up a schedule and process for collecting that
would involve Tony and Gloria putting together a monthly itinerary for gallery
and studio visits that would open up the New York City art world to the Maslows.
The Maslows would then spend long weekends in NYC going from gallery to gallery
in SoHo, as well as some up town and the East Village galleries, discussing
the works they were seeing with Tony and Gloria, meeting with gallery directors
and artists, and when possible also making studio visits. After extended research
and discussions the Maslows would then make a selection from the works they
had seen and Tony would finalize the purchase with the gallery directors.
Initially the Maslows focused their attention on collecting major prints by
the most celebrated American artists of the time, namely, Johns, Rauschenberg,
Dine, Stella, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rosenquist, as well as important vintage
and contemporary photographs. Within a short period of time the reach of collecting
began to include paintings and works on paper by newly established or emerging
artists who were exhibiting in NYC at the time. The Maslow Collection has now
become the most significant collection of contemporary art in Northeast Pennsylvania.
The Symposium on September 19th will include Richard Maslow, Tony Sorce,
Michael Walls, and Pat Caporaso, with Robert Schweitzer, Curator of The Maslow
Collection as moderator.
Also: see the concurrent exhibition in The
Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art
- Works included in this exhibition:
- Jennifer Bartlett, In the Garden #40, 1983, screenprint and woodcut
- John Beerman, Unpossessible Being, 1986, oil on wood and masonite
- James Biederman, untitled, 1987, pastel on paper
- Chuck Close, Phil III, 1982, handmade paper, black cold-pressed 1/2"
grid
Mark Cohen, Twisting, 1976, gelatin silver print
Robert Cumming, Red Preceives Only a Bulb in the Outline, 1979, large
format polaroid
Robert Cumming, Small Constellation 3, 1987, oil on canvas
- Francesco Clemente, untitled, 1984, color woodblock print
- Lee Friedlander, Father Duffy, Times Square, New York City 1974,
1974, vintage gelatin silver print
Jack Goldstein Untitled (MP#127), 1984, oil on canvas
- Jane Hammond, Tuner, 1993, mixed media on rice paper
- Edward Henderson, Vein, Vain, Vane, 1985-6, oil and inlaid wood
on canvas
- Edward Henderson, untitled, 1990, mixed media on paper
- Robert Jessup, Winter, 1987, oil on linen
Robert Jessup, Watchful Father, 1987, charcoal on paper
Barbara Kasten, Construct NYC-8, 1983, Cibacrome print
- Mel Kendrick, Basswood with Clay and Holes, 1986, basswood and clay
- Robert Longo, Jules, Gretchen, Mark - State LL, 1982-3, lithograph
- Melissa Meyer, In Love With Night, 1992, oil on canvas
- Katherine Porter, 1000 Red Burning Nights, 1986, oil on linen
- David Reed, No. 230 (for Beccafumi), 1985-6, oil and Alkyd on canvas
- David Reed, Working Drawings for Painting 571-2, 2005-6, mixed media
on paper
- Edward Ruscha, Metro, Petro, Neuro, Psycho, 1982, etching
- Edward Ruscha, Indecision, 1982, etching
- David Salle, Untilhotographs Could be Taken from Earth Satellites,
1983, white etching on black aquatint
- Julian Schnabel, Tod-Cage Without Bars, 1982, etching
Sandy Skoglund, The Laws of Interior Design, 1986, dye transfer print
- Cary Smith, untitled, 1990, oil on wax on paper
- Cary Smith, untitled, 1990, oil on wax on paper
Anthony Sorce, Polarity, 1983, Rhoplex on canvas
- Anthony Sorce, Montauk, 1981-2, Rhoplex on board
Thornton Willis, Streets of Tupelo, 1984, acrylic on canvas
Installation Views
[Click on image to enlarge.]
- Works included in SORDONI GALLERY exhibition:
- Jurgen Albrecht, untitled, 1990, mixed media, muesum board, paper, plastic
- Bernd & Hilla Becher, Coal Mines (details), 1988, b&w photographs
(series of 3)
- James Biederman, Albanian Tango, 1990,oil on canvas
Jerry Buchanan, Haywire, 1988-9, acrylic, charcoal. oil on plywood
Robert Cumming, Orbits Down / Eyes Round, 1990, oil on canvas
- Peter Halley, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, NJ, 1989, relief
etching on Japenese paper
- Peter Halley, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, NJ, 1989, relief
etching on Japenese paper
- Peter Halley, Limited Partners, 1990, silkscreen on mylar
- Willy Heeks, Affirming Flame, 1988, etching, screenprint and drypoint
- Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled (Orange State I), 1988, lithograph
Herwig Kempinger, untitled, 1989, C-print
- Lois Lane, untitled, 1990, woodcut, screenprint, and linocut
- Gary Lang, untitled, 1990, acrylic on paper
- Will Mentor, Don Ottavio's Desire, 1991, oil on paper
Melissa Meyer, Volterra, 1990, oil on canvas
- Melissa Meyer, X, 1990, monoprint
- Frank Owen, Vault, 1989, relief print
William Wegman, Tripod, 1989, color photograph
Installation Views - Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes University
[Click on image to enlarge.]
