Exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery will survey artworks made using or depicting the American flag
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Exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery will survey artworks made using or depicting the American flag
Claes Oldenburg, Bunting, 1961, Muslin soaked in plaster over wire frame, painted with enamel 24 x 34 x 4 inches, © Claes Oldenburg. Courtesy the LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT, Photo: Cultural Preservation Technologies.



NEW YORK, NY.- The flag of the United States is a highly potent symbol of patriotism that simultaneously unites and divides the nation it represents and has long been celebrated and disparaged by artists enthralled by its power while remaining wary of its application.

This exhibition will survey artworks made using or depicting the American flag and that exemplify the ambivalent nationalism, patriotic nostalgia, and social anxiety of the highly politicized motif. Works will date from the late 1950s––a period of huge historical significance for the United States and the global spread of capitalism––through to our contemporary moment of heightened political tension.

Among the first generation of flag-wielding artists is Jasper Johns, who described appeal of the flag in relation to its pervasiveness: it was something “seen and not looked at”.[1] Claes Oldenburg, on the other hand, considered the flag’s ubiquity a symptom of the commercialization of patriotism and history, and the family of flags he made from cardboard and driftwood in the summer of 1960 in Provincetown, Cape Cod, are both parody and symptom of the chronic idolatry he encountered there.

Following the Civil Rights Movement and protests against the Vietnam War the flag became an increasingly charged cultural symbol in the late 1960s and 1970s, and Douglas Huebler, Faith Ringgold, Edward Kienholz, and Ming Smith were among the artists reinterpreting its symbolic implications. In 1990 David Hammons debuted his African American Flag in the red, green and black palette of the Black Liberation Flag, and the following year Hans Haacke responded to the national disgrace of the Gulf War with Collateral, a rusted shopping cart full of flag buttons with the caption “May God bless the victory of the allied troop [sic]”.

Among the many examples of contemporary artists extending this critical investigation into the present will be new works made especially for the exhibition by Carla Edwards, Cheyenne Julien, Eric. N. Mack and Kiyan Williams.

A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to America Votes, the nation’s largest grassroots voter mobilization effort.

[1] Jasper Johns interviewed by Walter Hopps, Artforum vol. 3, no. 6, March 1965










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