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.