Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction

May 25, 2007 - September 09, 2007

Organized by the Norton Museum of Art, this exhibition includes approximately 60 works from various institutional and private collections and explores Georgia O'Keeffe's consistent use of circular forms during the more than seven decades she was active as an artist. It demonstrates aspects of the ways in which she turned to this motif as a means of abstraction as well as how her approach differs from the strategies of many of her peers, especially those whose abstractions were cubist-based. Using the circle and its kin, the ellipse, the oval, and the arcing line, O'Keeffe explored the shifting terrain between abstraction and representation to create a new and highly personal imagery.

This exhibition and related programs were made possible in part by support from The Burnett Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission 1% Lodgers Tax, the New Mexico Department of Tourism, New Mexico Arts (a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs), and the Members of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.