The Wisconsin State Journal's Gayle Worland talks to Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Curator Rick Axsom about the upcoming exhibition Frank Stella Prints: A Retrospective. This "big, bold" show features over 100 prints from Frank Stella's repertoire of innovations in abstract art, drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation.
The exhibition coincides with the Whitney's much-lauded retrospective of Stella paintings and sculpture in New York City, which ends this weekend. Axsom said, “Our show, a print retrospective, together with the Whitney, gives you the ‘complete’ Stella.”
Frank Stella will visit the Museum for its opening on Friday, February 5th, participating in a a panel discussion with Axsom, Jordan Schnitzer, and Museum Director Stephen Fleischman.
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