XL
September 13 – November 16, 2014

A detail of Gregory Gillespie's large painting "Wheel of Life," which features a photorealistic painting of the artist with his shirt off standing in front of a circle segmented into pie sections, each a different color. On top of the circle are items including a cow, an ax, a stick and a butternut squash.

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“If you can’t make it good, make it big.”

A famous art school joke, attributed to graphic designer Paul Rand, reads, “If you can’t make it good, make it big.” “XL” shows you can do both. This exhibition featured large contemporary paintings, prints and sculpture from the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art or on long-term loan to the museum. Artists with work in the exhibition included Sandro Chia, Gregory Gillespie, Andy Warhol, Terry Winters and Jack Youngerman.

 

Curator
Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art

Sponsors
The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art