The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale is pleased to announce the exhibition “Are You Ready for Social Security?,” a show featuring working artists 65 years or older. The first in a series of exhibitions presenting work by mature, well-established artists, this show underscores and explores the notion that creativity does not diminish with age, but rather can deepen and expand. Included in the exhibit is work by Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Red Grooms, Charles Hinman, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg, and Jack Youngerman.
The show spans art movements and historical trends, ranging from second generation Abstract Expressionists like Frankenthaler, to Minimalists LeWitt and Mangold, to the quirky, idiosyncratic work of Lee Bontecou, and Red Grooms’ comic, irreverent stance on contemporary life. All of the pieces make manifest a creative maturity and confidence of the artists’ stylistic oeuvre. Included in the exhibit are works on paper, painting, and sculpture.
"Are You Ready for Social Security?" will be on view through March 4, 2005, in the Elma & Milton A. Gilbert Pavilion where it is open to the public, daily from 10 am – 4 pm, free of charge. We would like to thank Pace/Prints, NYC, ULAE Editions, Jim Kempner Fine Art, and the studio of Louise Bourgeois for their assistance with the exhibit.
