"Painting Zero Degree"
2000-09-20 until 2000-11-26
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Norman, OK, USA United States of America

Beginning September 23, visitors to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will have the opportunity to see art as they have most likely never seen it before - on the floor, as wallpaper, and even being worn as clothing by museum attendants. Surprises will wait around every corner of the museums lower gallery where Painting Zero Degree will be on view until November 26.

Color and scale will be vital in the interactive nature of the show. Visitors will walk among large game-board-like structures, touch wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling carpeting, see striking colors in unlikely places, and so much more. For anyone stuck on the perception that art - and especially Minimalism - is stuffy, Painting Zero Degree will be a stimulating journey for the mind and senses. A public opening reception will be held Friday, September 22 from 7 - 9 p.m.

Painting Zero Degree is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, a non-profit traveling exhibition service specializing in contemporary art. Guest curator for this exhibition is Carlos Basualdo. The exhibition, tour, and catalog are made possible, in part, by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with additional support from the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, and the ICI Independents.

In the late 1960s and early 70s, a group of progressive artists in Europe and the United States developed new approaches to art which disregarded all traditional notions of what constitutes a painting. Robert Ryman, John McCracken, Daniel Buren, and Niele Toroni, among others, began making art by focusing on one or two of paintings various components, from individual brushstrokes to the texture of the canvas beneath the paint and the individual colors. These artists may be said to have viewed art from only inches away.

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