Elizabeth Smith, art historian, curator, and executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, expands upon the pioneering legacy of Lee Bontecou. Smith has written extensively about the artist in Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, a book that accompanied the exhibition she curated at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2004. This lecture is presented in connection with the exhibition Into the Void: Prints of Lee Bontecou.
Elizabeth Smith
Photo by Scott Rudd.
About the Speaker
One of the leading experts on the work of Lee Bontecou, Elizabeth Smith curated the traveling exhibition Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, which opened in 2003 at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and was presented in 2004 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where Smith was previously chief curator and deputy director of programs. Her additional curatorial projects on Bontecou include a 1993 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and a section on the artist in the 54th Carnegie International in 2004/5. Smith is currently executive director of the New York-based Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and a visiting professor at Bennington College.
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Explore Works by Lee Bontecou
Untitled, 1960.
Lee Bontecou. Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art © 2019 Lee Bontecou.
Fifth Stone, 1964.
Lee Bontecou. Printed by Zigmunds Priede. ULAE Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; restricted gift of supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings…
Fourth Stone, 1963.
Lee Bontecou, printed by Zigmunds Priede. ULAE Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; restricted gift of supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings…
