Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes

Gagosian is pleased to present Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes, an exhibition of works by Roy Lichtenstein. The exhibition assembles a selection of significant paintings, a sculpture, watercolors, and other works on paper exclusively from the Collection of the Lichtenstein Family. Titled after a 1984 canvas by Lichtenstein, Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes highlights the importance of the brushstroke as a formal and symbolic device in the artist's practice. In the works from the 1970s and '80s that are the exhibition's focus, Lichtenstein returns to one of his iconic motifs with renewed creativity. The artist first approached the brushstroke as subject in 1965, translating it into heavily outlined bands of color that read as illustrations of the painterly mark. Synonymous with the bravura and spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism, but meticulously defined with flat shapes and clear contours, Lichtenstein's Pop-inflected brushstrokes represent this essential element of painting in ways that further his engagement with issues of style and originality. Works on paper from the era include original compositions as well as preliminary studies for paintings, sculptures, and other major projects, such as Mural with Blue Brushstroke (1984), a large-scale public commission first unveiled at 787 Seventh Avenue forty years ago, in which the blue brushstroke doubles as a waterfall.

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