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Jasper Johns the 50th Anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1980 Lithograph

Jasper Johns's groundbreaking piece of work sent shock waves through the art world when information technology was first shown in the tardily 1950s, and he has connected to challenge new audiences—and himself—over a career spanning more than 60-five years. He was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia; spent the bulk of his developed life in New York; and today lives in Sharon, Connecticut, where, at the age of 90-1, he remains active in his studio. Johns'southward early on use of mutual objects and motifs, language, and inventive materials and formats upended conventional notions of what an artwork is and tin can exist. His profoundly generative practice helped spark movements including Pop fine art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, amid others, and has inspired successive generations of artists to this 24-hour interval.

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the nigh comprehensive retrospective e'er devoted to Johns's fine art. Featuring his most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, it comprises a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today beyond two sites. Conceived as a whole but displayed in two distinct parts, the exhibition appears simultaneously here at the Whitney and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two institutions with which Johns has had long-continuing relationships. This unique dual structure draws on the artist'due south lifelong fascination with mirroring and doubles, then that each half of the exhibition echoes and reflects the other. Organized in largely chronological order, the retrospective presents pairs of related galleries—ane in each city—that offer varied perspectives on the artist'southward turns of mind. Individually, each gallery focuses on a particular aspect of Johns'southward idea and work through the lens of different themes, processes, images, mediums, and even emotional states. Taken together, they provide an immersive exploration of the many phases, treasures, and mysteries of a radical, enduring, and still-evolving career.

This exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Fine art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The organizing curators are Carlos Basualdo, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Fine art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Principal Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with Sarah B. Vogelman, Exhibition Assistant, in Philadelphia, and Lauren Young, Curatorial Assistant, in New York.

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirroris presented past

Leonard and Judy Lauder

Leadership back up is provided past

Kenneth C. Griffin
Susan and John Hess

Bank of America is the National Sponsor

In New York, this exhibition is sponsored by

Generous support is provided by Judy Hart Angelo; Neil Yard. Bluhm; Matthew Marks; and Kevin and Rosemary McNeely, Manitou Fund.

Major back up is provided by the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund; The Chocolate-brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston; Nancy and Steve Crown; Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz; Ellsworth Kelly Foundation and Jack Shear; Agnes Gund; Kristen and Alexander Klabin; Helen and Charles Schwab; the Whitney'southward National Committee; and an bearding donor.

Meaning support is provided past Constance R. Caplan, Marguerite Steed Hoffman and Tom Lentz, the Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, Sueyun and Factor Locks, Susan and Larry Marx, Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman, Donna Perret Rosen and Benjamin Grand. Rosen, The Robert Lehman Foundation, and Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson Foundation.

Boosted support is provided by Aaron and Leslee Cowen, Kathy and Richard Fuld, Johanna and Leslie Garfield, Ashley Leeds and Christopher Harland, Mrs. Ronnie F. Heyman, Sheila and Beak Lambert, Barbara and Richard Lane, Margo Leavin, Janie C. Lee, Richard and Nancy Lubin, Martin Z. Margulies, the National Endowment for the Arts, Monique and Gregg Seibert, Norman Selby and Melissa Vail Selby, and Gloria H. Spivak.


This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

The opening dinner is sponsored by Christie's


New York magazine is the exclusive media sponsor.

Events

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  • Sun,
    Feb 13

    Weekend Member Mornings: Terminal Await at Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

    10:30–eleven am

  • Sat,
    Feb 12

    Weekend Member Mornings: Last Look at Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

    10:xxx–11 am

  • Tues,
    Feb viii

    Absence that Fills the World:
    The Figure in the Piece of work of Jennifer Packer, Jasper Johns, and More

    6 pm

  • Sun,
    Feb vi

    Weekend Member Mornings: Last Look at Jasper Johns: Listen/Mirror

    10:30–xi am

  • Sat,
    February v

    Open Studio From Domicile: Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

    11 am–12 pm

  • Sat,
    February v

    Weekend Member Mornings: Last Wait at Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

    10:thirty–11 am

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In the News

"The construction of the exhibition volition open a window onto the dazzler, pregnant, and remarkable artistic social club that organizes Johns'southward work." —ArtfixDaily

"The artist'southward work has managed to speak both to and for the land's consciousness for the concluding 60 years—and he'south non done yet." —T Magazine

"[A]n absolute must-see"— Vogue

"It's a broad and restless confrontation of the work of one of the country's all-time-known artists . . . ."  —Boston Globe

"This is the first genuine, must-run into blockbuster exhibition to open since the pandemic began in 2019, and it might be an occasion for euphoria." — Washington Mail

"It's a testimony to [Johns'southward] long, productive career that Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror needs two museums . . . ." —Wall Street Journal

". . . a spectacular exhibition, spanning the artist'southward 65-year career and featuring many of his nigh iconic works equally well equally rare pieces on public view here for the start time."—Gothamist

"Mind/Mirror is a much-needed close-read, experimental new geography of this artist . . ."— New York Mag

". . . a monumental retrospective [. . .] reveals an artist'due south protean talent, irresolute perspectives and resiliency over six decades."—New York Times

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Source: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jasper-johns