The Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, SUNY, opened its doors to “A Matter of Discovery: The Art of Luis Perelman,” a dynamic retrospective featuring more than six decades of work by the New York-based multimedia artist.
“Luis Perelman is an artistic innovator who continues to explore, discover and reinvent himself,” said exhibition curator Patrice Giasson, the Neuberger Museum”™s Alex Gordon curator of art of the Americas. “In this show, never-before-seen color, line and material studies from the artist”™s private studio are presented alongside his finished works”¦.”
Perelman may be best known for his pioneering sculptures cast in clear resin. Keys, screws and wingnuts, lightbulbs, typewriter parts, industrial objects and shredded currency from the US Treasury Department are encased in pristine obelisks, columns, pyramids and other iconic shapes.
It was these early resin sculptures that first attracted Leo Castelli, a gallerist who represented many of the most influential artists at the time, to Perelman”™s work. And it was at Castelli”™s gallery that Museum founder Roy R. Neuberger purchased “Industrial Petrifications #8” (1964), the first of Perelman”™s objects to enter the museum”™s collection when the museum was founded in 1969.
The exhibition will be on view at the Neuberger Museum from now through Nov. 5. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Alex Gordon Estate.
The Neuberger Museum of Art opened on the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York, in 1974 with a core collection donated by Roy R. Neuberger, one of the greatest private collectors, philanthropists and arts advocates of the 20th century.
