Blurred Boundaries
The Work of Keith Haring
Lobby Gallery Merrill Lynch Financial Center
717 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
April, 1999 - September, 1999
Image: Keith Haring, “Untitled” (1989) Enamel paint and Sumi ink on paper. Collection: Estate of Keith Haring / Courtesy: Andre Emmerich Gallery Curated and organized by Helen Varola, Art Assets LLC With thanks to Yale University and Shorenstein Realty Services, East, L.P.
Art Assets is pleased to announce Blurred Boundaries: The Work of Keith Haring, an exhibition of painting and graphic work by the artist. The exhibition consists of 10 works, including a large-scale sculpture, but primarily drawings. Performance was the term Haring used to describe his drawing process. As performance, these works reveal Haring’s incessant energy -- a relentless desire to bridge the inner and outer worlds of imagination and reality. Keith Haring aimed to reach deeply into the heart and soul of his generation. The works on display reveal Haring’s simplified figurative abstract forms and highly graphic style that radiated the urban energy of club life, graffiti, break dancing and hip-hop culture. Featured are works that made Haring one of the most popular and beloved artists of his time -- his well-known puzzle-like constructions fusing Pop and Disney to Stuart Davis. The organizers are grateful to the Estate of Keith Haring, The Keith Haring Foundation, Inc., and Andre Emmerich Gallery.