Looking for something to do this weekend? The de Young opens not one but two new shows Saturday, February 1.
Both exhibitions, Shaping Abstraction and The Bay Bridge: A Work in Progress, 1933 - 1936, focus on work to come out of the American 1930s. Shaping Abstraction will collect a range of work representative of the American Abstract Artists, who brought abstract expressionism to the United States as they struggled to win critical recognition. The Bay Bridge, a nod to the completion of the new bridge span and the light installation on the western span, documents the ferry years under construction, during the bridge's original establishment. It includes newly acquired photographs by Peter Stackpole and numerous drawings and paintings from the same period. So if you haven't been in a while or wandered in yet, this is a great weekend for it. The de Young also has two other new exhibitions later this month: Walasse Ting (February 15) and Georgia O'Keefe at Lake George (also February 15).
Both exhibitions, Shaping Abstraction and The Bay Bridge: A Work in Progress, 1933 - 1936, focus on work to come out of the American 1930s. Shaping Abstraction will collect a range of work representative of the American Abstract Artists, who brought abstract expressionism to the United States as they struggled to win critical recognition. The Bay Bridge, a nod to the completion of the new bridge span and the light installation on the western span, documents the ferry years under construction, during the bridge's original establishment. It includes newly acquired photographs by Peter Stackpole and numerous drawings and paintings from the same period. So if you haven't been in a while or wandered in yet, this is a great weekend for it. The de Young also has two other new exhibitions later this month: Walasse Ting (February 15) and Georgia O'Keefe at Lake George (also February 15).
