Burst!: Abstract Painting After 1945

About Daniel ZamaniJeremy LewisonKaren KurczynskiMary Gabriel

Mary Gabriel is the author of Ninth Street Women. Lee Krasner Elaine de Kooning Grace Hartigan Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art (2018) which won the 2022 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction. Gabriels previous book Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (2011) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull (1998) and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone (2002). Her latest book Madonna: A Rebel Life will be published in October 2023. Gabriel worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades and now lives in Ireland. Karen Kurczynski is Professor of modern and contemporary History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn: The Avant-Garde Wont Give Up (Rout-ledge 2014) and Reanimating Art: The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe (Routledge 2020) and curator of the exhibitions Human Animals: The Art of Cobra (UMASS University Museum of Contemporary Art and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale 2016) and Expo Jorn: Art is a Festival (co-curated with Karen Friis Herbsleb Museum Jorn 2014). Kurczynski has published widely on Asger Jorn the European Cobra movement the Situationist International and contemporary art. Her current research focuses on drawing as an inter-media practice in relation to politics race feminism and decoloniality in art since the 1990s. Jeremy Lewison is an independent curator. He was previously Director of Collections at Tate London. He has published extensively on Abstract Expressionism and 20th-century American and British art and was the London curator of the Jackson Pollock retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1999. At the Tate he was also the curator of surveys of work by Sol LeWitt (1986) Anish Kapoor (1991) Brice Marden (1992) and Ben Nicholson (1993). Since 2002 he has organised major exhibitions in Europe and the USA including Alice Neel: Painted Truths (2010) Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings (2011) and Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life (2016). He was the consultant to the Estate of Alice Neel from 2002 to 2020. He is currently working on a book about the British painter Paul Huxley. Daniel Zamani received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2017 with an AHRC-funded thesis on the interplay of occult and medieval themes in André Bretons work. He was appointed curator at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam in 2018 where he manages its extensive collection of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Exhibitions he has curated or co-curated include the shows MatisseBonnard: Long Live Painting! (2017) Color and Light: The Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross (2019) Monet: Places (2020) The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 (2022) and Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity (2022). Zamani has also published widely in the field of 19th and 20th-century painting especially on Surrealism.