WASHINGTON, DC.- This spring, The Phillips Collection celebrates the fifth anniversary of its Intersections contemporary art series with a retrospective exhibition which opened May 28. The Intersections series, which has showcased the work of 21 living artists from the US and abroad, is highlighted in Intersections@5, a presentation of the acquired artworks by these participating artists that were either part of past projects or reminiscent of them. A celebration of the Phillips’s mission to actively collect and display contemporary art, the anniversary exhibition will remain on view through October 25, 2015.

Inaugurated in 2009 and led by Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Vesela Sretenović, the Phillips’s Intersections series has invited 10 men and 11 women from the US and abroad to engage with the museum’s collection and architecture. The artists have created diverse projects—both aesthetically and conceptually—and employed various media and approaches from wall-drawing, rubber-painting, bicycle spoke sculpture, and digital photography to video projection and yarn installation. Featured artists include A. Balasubramaniam (India), Lee Boroson (US), Sandra Cinto (Brazil), Jae Ko (Korea-US), Jennifer Wen Ma (China), Linn Myers (US), Bernardi Roig (Spain), John F. Simon, Jr. (US), and Xavier Veilhan (France), among others.

In addition to celebrating the museum’s Intersections series, this anniversary exhibition illuminates the Phillips’s engagement with and patronage of the finest contemporary artists working today. Intersections@5 is emblematic of founder Duncan Phillips’s vision of his museum as an “experiment station” and his dedication to the art of the times.

“This thoughtfully assembled exhibition honors past and present Intersections artists who have engaged tradition in innovative, myriad ways,” says Sretenović. “Intersections@5 is truly an homage to Duncan Phillips’s passion for collecting and experimentation, showcasing how the museum embraces the legacy of Modern art and new, risktaking artistic practices to build a carefully crafted, in-depth collection.”