Paint Made Flesh

Walk through Paint Made Flesh with exhibition Curator Mark Scala

On view from January 23 – May 10, 2009, Paint Made Flesh presented paintings created in Europe and the United States since the 1950s in which a wide range of painterly effects suggested the carnal properties and cultural significance of human flesh and skin. As a revisionist study of post-World War II art, the exhibition offered a rejoinder to the modernist orthodoxies of the mid-to-late 20th century by contending that paint’s material properties make it well suited to convey metaphors of human vulnerability.