Geometric Rhythms

The UK Art Museum collection includes an eclectic group of paintings, prints, textiles, and sculptures that use repeated shapes to create a sense of driving rhythms, syncopations, and melodic phrases—from a ninth-century BCE Greek vase to a painting by University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Arturo Alonzo Sandoval. Two of the artworks on view—Ellsworth Kelley’s Dark Blue and Red and Theodoros Stamos’s Double Orange Sun-Box—were donated to the Museum in 1976, when the university started building the Singletary Center. Since the founding of the Museum, art collectors from across the United States have generously donated geometric abstractions from various cultures and time periods, and this exhibition celebrates their generosity. Artists featured also include Josef Albers, Lily Begay, Jasper Johns, George Rickey, Beatrice Riese, Fred Sandback, and Kimber Smith. 

 

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Kimber Smith, Untitled (Black Quarter Circles), undated, oil on canvas. Collection of the UK Art Museum, anonymous gift.