Objects: USA 2020 hails a new generation of artist-craftspeople by
revisiting a groundbreaking event that redefined American art. In
1969, an exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution that
redefined American art. Objects: USA united a cohort of artists
inventing new approaches to art-making by way of craft media.
Subsequently touring to twenty-two museums across the country,
where it was viewed by over half a million Americans, and then to
eleven cities in Europe, the exhibition canonized such artists as
Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Wharton Esherick, Wendell Castle, and
George Nakashima, and introduced others who would go on to achieve
widespread art-world acclaim, including Dale Chihuly, Michele Oka
Doner, J. B. Blunk, and Ron Nagle. Objects: USA 2020 revisits this
revolutionary exhibition and its accompanying catalog - which has
become a bible of sorts to curators, gallerists, dealers,
craftspeople, and artists - by pairing fifty participants from the
original exhibition with fifty contemporary artists representing
the next generation of practitioners to use - and upend - the
traditional methods and materials of craft to create new forms of
art. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same title at
the renowned gallery R & Company, and featuring essays by some
of the foremost authorities on craft at the intersection of art,
including Glenn Adamson, curator and former director of the Museum
of Arts & Design; James Zemaitis, curator and former head of
twentieth-century design at Sotheby's; and Lena Vigna, curator of
exhibitions at the Racine Art Musuem; an interview with Paul J.
Smith, the cocurator of Objects: USA 2020 is an essential art
historical reference that traces how craft was elevated to the
status of museum-quality art, and sets its trajectory forward.
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