Designed by fsc student and agb design fellow, riley karau

From the 1960s onward, as this exhibition of works from the Museum’s permanent collection seeks to demonstrate, American artists leapt into the void left by a Europe in reconstruction, staking their places in art history in ways American art had never before. Whereas once American art had been deemed mostly derivative of earlier art styles — Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism — the example set by artists like those of the 1950s Abstract Expressionist movement encouraged the next generation of artists to experiment broadly with styles ranging from Pop Art and Neo-Dada to appropriation and abstraction.