EMBRACE - The Journey of Gary Lichtenstein

February 11th - March 11th, 2023

Waterfall and Gary Lichtenstein’s decade-long relationship has inspired the first exhibition of 2023 in honor of their friendship and the artist's accomplished life.

Over the course of his remarkable 45-year career as a silkscreen printer, Lichtenstein has worked with over 90 artists, each of whom has approached the medium of silkscreen with their own unique and specific intentions. Every project produced in Lichtenstein's studio, including his own, tells a different story. The exhibition <EMBRACE> celebrates the journey of Lichtenstein and showcases the selected collaborative series of silkscreen prints of historically exhibited Waterfall artists, Robert Indiana, Charles Hinman, Makoto Fujimura, and Jinwon Chang.

Renowned painter Gary Lichtenstein demonstrates true abstract expressionism with his spectacular use of color. His paintings, more than 200 oil-based works to date, exhibit mastery of the properties of light absorption and reflection, specifically with regard to the visual impact of color. The composition of Lichtenstein’s work has been referred to as atmospheric…”evocative of natural forms and phenomena.” The inclusion of his 18 foot long paintings ‘Reflection’ and ‘Quiet Sky’ will be displayed alongside Yuyu Yang’s ‘East and West Gate’ reflective sculpture. Inspired by artists such as Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, Lichtenstein creates canvases which have frequently been described as ethereal, and he has been praised as one who manages to capture a “sense of no-self…”

<Embrace> will be a preview of Lichtenstein's solo exhibition presented at The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio this upcoming spring.