Infinite Concept Universe
Abstract Expressionism Universe is connected to ICUArtists · works · materials · process · history · contested interpretations · Studio Lab · evidence and rights boundaries remain visible
Skip to main content

Abstract Expressionism Universe

Atlas · Information-dense records, chronology, relationships, evidence, and structured research.

Explore this universe
Reading key: fact, interpretation, evidence, and uncertainty

Record factCatalog or archival metadata presented as a record claim with source visibility where available.

Source interpretationAn interpretation attributed to a cited source; it is not silently converted into object fact.

AEU editorial mappingA normalization or navigation relationship created by AEU; useful for discovery, not a source claim by itself.

Partial / contestedIncompleteness, uncertainty, or disagreement remains visible rather than being flattened into certainty.

Time + Place

Exhibitions

Source-backed exhibition records, venue history, and checklist completeness.

exhibition

Abstract Expressionist New York

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

MoMA exhibition presented from Oct 3, 2010 through Apr 25, 2011; AEU stores only source-verified checklist entries from the current fixture corpus and marks the checklist as partial.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

Historical MoMA exhibition represented with a source-verified partial checklist. AEU does not infer a complete checklist from selected online records.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

15 Americans

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

Historical MoMA exhibition represented with a source-verified partial checklist. AEU does not infer a complete checklist from selected online records.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

Historical MoMA exhibition represented with a source-verified partial checklist. AEU does not infer a complete checklist from selected online records.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Women of Abstract Expressionism

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

Denver Art Museum exhibition presenting twelve women painters in the context of Abstract Expressionism. AEU stores the source-verified artist roster while marking the work checklist partial.

  • verified partial
  • 2 direct sources

exhibition

Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

MoMA exhibition of nearly 100 works by more than 50 women artists across postwar abstraction. AEU stores only source-verified entries from its current corpus.

  • verified partial
  • 3 direct sources

exhibition

Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

Whitney exhibition examining women and American abstraction before 1950. AEU records only current-corpus entries and preserves the exhibition’s broader prewar scope.

  • verified partial
  • 3 direct sources

exhibition

Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

2011 Studio Museum exhibition revisiting the historic Spiral collective; AEU stores only source-visible current-corpus participants and keeps the object checklist partial.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

First comprehensive museum overview of Norman Lewis, presented at PAFA in 2015–2016 and later traveling; AEU records the artist and scope without inventing the approximately 90-work checklist.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

Brooklyn Museum exhibition examining artistic practice and the civil-rights movement; AEU stores only current-corpus participants explicitly named by the museum source.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

MoCNA exhibition examining multiple Native artists’ engagements with Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Hard-edge, and other modern vocabularies; AEU keeps the checklist partial and does not convert inclusion into one shared style.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

NMAI exhibition using nearly forty paintings to challenge narrow definitions of Native painting; AEU records only source-visible current-corpus participation and keeps object coverage partial.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

NMAI exhibition tracing Howe’s development from early work through his innovative 1950s–1960s abstract approach; AEU stores a partial checklist rather than inferring the full retrospective contents.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

MoMA exhibition retrospectively grouping nine distinct painters and sculptors who matured during later phases of Abstract Expressionism. AEU records the institutional framing without turning it into a permanent stylistic category.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

The Washington Color Painters

Point date with year precision; no finer precision is implied.

1965 Washington Gallery of Modern Art group exhibition identified by the National Gallery as a major public moment for artists exploring staining, color, and new abstract structures. AEU stores only the current-corpus participants visible in the source.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition explicitly looking beyond the Color School label to the breadth of styles and techniques among Washington artists.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Abstract Expressionist New York: Rock Paper Scissors

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

MoMA focused this second-floor installation on sculpture and works on paper by artists who moved in Abstract Expressionist circles. AEU preserves it as an expanded-media framing, not proof that every included artist shared one style.

  • verified partial
  • 2 direct sources

exhibition

American Collages

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

MoMA’s 1965 exhibition provides an institutional collage network including Anne Ryan, Conrad Marca-Relli, Robert Motherwell, and others. AEU stores only artist participation currently verified from the exhibition page, not a reconstructed complete object list.

  • verified partial
  • 1 direct source

exhibition

Ninth Street Show

Date range with day start precision and day end precision.

The 1951 artist-organized Ninth Street exhibition is stored as a documented social/exhibition-network node. AEU includes only the participation entries currently established by its cited archival source and does not claim a complete checklist.

  • verified partial
  • 2 direct sources

exhibition

Gutai: Splendid Playground

Point date with year precision; no finer precision is implied.

A 2013 Guggenheim retrospective recorded here as later institutional framing of a Japanese postwar collective. It is not evidence that Gutai was an Abstract Expressionist subgroup or derivative.

  • unknown
  • 1 direct source

ICU / CONNECTED DISCOVERY

Nearby in Infinite Concept Universe

Recommendations use ICU's bounded public graph. AEU source relationships keep documented fact, editorial mapping, contextual proximity, and interpretation distinct; proximity never becomes an influence claim.

Loading public connections…