Thursday, July 23rd
As part of the Currier Museum's exhibition
Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s
5:30 pm - Doors open
6:00 pm - Film screening followed by panel discussion
7:30 pm - Private viewing with Curator Bruce McColl of Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s, and related exhibit, Painting in Color: Contemporary Abstraction by Heather Hutchison, Joseph Marioni, Jane Swavely, and John Zurier
Screening of: Jules Olitski Modern Master
A Film by Ames Hill Productions featuring historic footage of Jules Olitski, including interviews with art critic Karen Wilkin, artist Anthony Caro, artist Frank Stella, curator Charles Millard, and others.
Followed by a discussion with Karen Wilkin, Artist James Walsh and Lauren Poster, President of the Jules Olitski Foundation.
Karen Wilkin is a New York-based curator and critic. The author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, and Giorgio Morandi, among others, she has organized exhibitions of their work internationally. She writes regularly for Hopkins Review, Hudson Review, The New Criterion, and the Wall Street Journal and teaches in the M.F.A. program of the New York Studio School. She was co-curator of the touring exhibition Revelations: The Major Paintings of Jules Olitski. Current projects include a Larry Poons retrospective for the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
James Walsh is a painter, occasional writer and the Director of the Sam and Adele Golden Gallery in New Berlin New York. In 2022 he curated and wrote the essay for the exhibition Jules Olitski: Late Works, at the SAGG. Jim and his wife, painter Ann Walsh, moved to New York City in 1980 and met Jules, became friends with him and his family, and were frequent visitors to his New Hampshire and Florida studios. Jim has exhibited with Berry Campbell in Chelsea since 2013.
Lauren Poster is the President of the Jules Olitski Art Foundation, located in Jacksonville, Vermont. She and her husband Bradley Poster have overseen the Olitski studio, archives and collections since 1982.
