CURRENT EXHIBITION / ATTENTION TO DETAIL / DESCRIPTION
Mark Wagner, Chuck, 2005
Currency collage, 11" x 9"
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition, "Attention to Detail." Curated by renowned contemporary artist Chuck Close, the show includes work from a wide range of both established and emerging artists:
Louise Bourgeois
Delia Brown
Glenn Brown
Maurizio Cattelan
Vija Celmins
Jennifer Dalton
Thomas Demand
Tara Donovan
Olafur Eliasson
Dan Fischer
Tom Friedman
Ellen Gallagher
Tim Gardner
Franz Gertsch
Ewan Gibbs
Robert Gober
Andreas Gursky
Damien Hirst
Jim Hodges
Naoto Kawahara
Ellsworth Kelly
Cary Kwok
Robert Lazzarini
Graham Little
Christian Marclay
Brice Marden
Tony Matelli
Ron Mueck
Richard Patterson
Richard Pettibone
Elizabeth Peyton
Richard Phillips
Marc Quinn
Alessandro Raho
Gerhard Richter
Aaron Romine
Ed Ruscha
Cindy Sherman
James Siena
Ken Solomon
Thomas Struth
Tomoaki Suzuki
Yuken Teruya
Fred Tomaselli
Jim Torok
Mark Wagner
Rachel Whiteread
Fred Wilson
Steve Wolfe
Lisa Yuskavage
Whether it is through conceptual or technical precision, the deceptively lifelike nature of a hand-crafted image, a playful interpretation or distortion of a familiar object or the detailed appropriation of another artist's work, an acute focus on the minute connects these works and these artists’ approaches. These artists demonstrate a labor-intensive and exacting artistic passion in their respective processes. As Chuck Close fittingly reflects with respect to his own work, "I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine...Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect."