A colorful new exhibition at the RISD Museum focuses on the lasting influence of contemporary American artists working at the periphery of mainstream modernism. What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present traces the trajectories of four artists’ hubs or collectives that sprang up within the last half century outside more traditional cultural centers: the Hairy Who in Chicago in the late 1960s, Funk in San Francisco around the same period, the mid-1970s collective Destroy All Monsters in Ann Arbor, MI and Forcefield, a group of RISD and other artists who banded together in the late 1990s and early 2000s at Fort Thunder here in Providence.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:52:43 +0000
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