R. H. Quaytman: + x, Chapter 34

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For this exhibition, contemporary artist R. H. Quaytman presents a new group of paintings, titled + ×, Chapter 34, made to be shown in conjunction with Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, the first exhibition devoted to Hilma af Klint in the United States since Quaytman organized a survey of her work at New York’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 1989. This “chapter,” as Quaytman’s focused groups of paintings are called, continues the artist’s ongoing investigation of the factors that enable a painting to generate meaning—including its content, its production, and the physical and social context of its presentation. Taking into account the dedication of the Guggenheim’s founders to spiritually oriented abstraction, these new works offer a reconsideration of the relationship between af Klint and that movement by using the innovative abstract painter’s Blue Books as source material.