When We Were Young: Rethinking Abstraction (1967-present)

from the University at Albany Art Collections

Exhibition Website

Oct 6 2017 - Dec 16 2017

Looking back at highlights from the earliest years of the University at Albany Art Collections, this exhibition shines a fresh light on late-Modernist abstraction as it relates to current trends in contemporary art.

Artists include Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Jack Bosson, Alexander Calder, Chryssa, Gene Davis, Adolph Gottlieb, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Jenny Kemp, Kim Lim, Conrad Marca-Relli, Robert Motherwell, Henry Pearson, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., George Sugarman, Peter Taylor, and Jack White.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.


  • 20th Century
  • Josef Albers
  • Richard Anuszkiewicz
  • Alexander Calder
  • Chryssa
  • Gene Davis
  • Sam Francis
  • Helen Frankenthaler
  • Donald Judd
  • Robert Motherwell
  • Elsworth Kelly
  • and others

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