Irene Rice Pereira

Work by Irene Rice Pereira is included in Body, Line, Motion: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, New York.

This exhibition opens Friday, February 5, the same day the artist is featured in an exhibition in Manhattan at the new Wendt Gallery in the Fuller Bulding at 57th Street and Madison Avenue. The Dorsky exhibition includes works depicting human and animal forms that emphasize movement, dance, and ritualistic activity. It is curated by Amy Lipton.

The exhibition is in conjunction with and conceived as a companion exhibition to Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises with over forty works spanning the career of this pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist. It is curated by Brian Wallace.

Body, Line, Motion includes more than 70 works ranging from ancient Egypt, Greece, Syria, Africa and Pre-Columbian objects to present day. Among the artist’s works on view include: Lee Bontecou, Asher Durand, Max Ernst, Mary Frank, Alberto Giacometti, Frank Gillette, Leon Golub, Bradford Graves, Frederick Hassam, Jan Harrison, Wasily Kandinsky, Rockwell Kent, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Ann Lovett, Kathe Kollwitz, Philip Pearlstein, Jackson Pollack, Robert Rauschenberg, Kunie Sugiura, Mark Tobey, Jack Tworkov, Abraham Walkowitz and Andy Warhol.