Northern Lights. European and American Contemporary Art from a Melbourne Private Collection
Dates:
6 March – 12 April 1985
Artists:
Jo Baer, Glen Baxter, Richard Bosman, Sandro Chia, Chuck Close, Tony Cragg, Friedel Dzubas, Richard Estes, Janet Fish, Philip Guston, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hofmann, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ken Kiff, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Barnett Newman, Jules Olitski, Julian Opie, A.R. Penck, Bridget Riley, Susan Rothenberg, Julian Schnabel, David Smith, Michael Steiner, Frank Stella, John Walker, Andy Warhol
Curator:
Jenepher Duncan
Location:
Exhibition Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
Positioned in contrast to the public collections of state and national galleries, this exhibition showed European and North American works from an unspecified private collection. The exhibition demonstrated the collection’s educational function and a unique opportunity it provided for audiences who otherwise would not have the chance to engage with postwar European and American art outside of reproductions. ‘It has been the rare adventurous private collector and the infrequent international travelling exhibition which have filled the dearth of opportunity for most Australians to gain some understanding of contemporary art of the northern hemisphere’, wrote curator Jenepher Duncan. Showing works by canonical practitioners such as Barnett Newman, Jo Baer, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol and others, Northern Lights was singular in its scale and mission.
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