Bus Trip to PEM (Peabody Essex Museum) – to see HANS HOFMANN: THE NATURE OF ABSTRACTION

Leave from the CCMoA parking lot at 7:45 am sharp OR from the Exit 6, Burger King bus stop at 8:00 sharp! Arrive at PEM at 10:45 am; a guided tour will begin at 11:00 am. Lunch available at PEM. Leave PEM at 2:45 pm for trip back to Exit 6, Burger King by 5:30 pm & the CCMoA by 5:45 pm.

Bringing together nearly seventy works spanning the entirety of the artist’s career, this exhibition presents a fresh and eye-opening examination of Hans Hofmann’s prolific and innovative artistic practice. Featuring paintings and works on paper from 1930 through the end of Hofmann’s life in 1966, the exhibition includes numerous masterworks from BAMPFA’s distinguished collection as well as many seldom-seen works from both public and private collections across North America and Europe. The Nature of Abstraction provides new insight into Hofmann’s continuously experimental approach to painting and the expressive potential of color, form, and space, reconnecting many of the artist’s most iconic late-career paintings with dozens of remarkably robust, prescient, and understudied works from the 1930s and 1940s....

This traveling show was produced by The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.