Ellen Harvey: Metal Painting

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

NOW CLOSED

To accompany Strength and Splendor: Wrought Iron from the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen, the Barnes Foundation has commissioned Metal Painting a site specific work by Ellen Harvey (b. 1967) that engages with the iconoclastic placement of the Foundation’s metalwork in the context of its holding of paintings. Harvey’s oeuvre explores the traditions of the history of art and confounds the expectations of the viewer in institutional contexts. A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, she has exhibited her work extensively in the United States and abroad.

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