Jimmy Ernst:
Radiant Silence

January 5-February 6, 2010

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Spanierman Modern is pleased to present Jimmy Ernst: Radiant Silence , an exhibition of the eloquent and quietly moving abstract paintings and works on paper created by an artist (1920-1984) who was uniquely part of two worlds—the European vanguard to which he was exposed during his youth, as the son of the Dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst and of the journalist and art historian Lou Straus-Ernst, and the New York School, where after immigrating to the United States in 1938, he was embraced by the leading figures in the Abstract Expressionist movement. The exhibition is accompanied by a forty-eight page catalogue (available for $30) including color illustrations of the forty-three works in the exhibition, a scholarly essay by Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and a recollection of the artist by his son Eric Ernst, an artist and writer.