The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy and Illusion from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Robert Yarber, Long Drop (1985); Greg Miller, Spiderman (2005); Blake Boyd, Supergirl (2002)

Jeffrey Cook, My Yoke is E-Z. My Burden Life (1988-2005); Martin Bigum, Vanity Fair (2005)

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gray Hitchhiker (1962-79); LA II, Untitled (Pink Motorcycle) (1991); Luisa Caldwell, Untitled (2004)

Greg Miller, 7UP (2005); Vincent James, Bullets (2000); Srdjan Loncar, Abstraction I (2005); John “Crash” Matos, The Big Mouth (1984)

Marjike Van Warmerdam, There You Are (1999); Christian Ward, Island (2002)

Christian Ward, Island (2002); Andy Warhol, Portrait of Frederick Weisman (1974)

Mary Ellen Powell, Footnote #1 (1994); Violise Lunn, Paper Shoes (red) (2004)

Mark Sparks, My Upstairs Neighbor (1995); Florian Markel, Umsetzung (2005)

Christoph Schmidberger, Sensational Things Are Going On (2002); Joel Morrison, Alligator Shoes (2005)

Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Drop Shot the Toyko JumboGrubbin’ Buzz (2001);Tony Tasset, Big Eye (2001); Howard Kanovitz, The Sea with Green Reflections (1989); Charles Bell, Marbles XII (1984); Melanie Pullen, Blue (Water Series) (2005)

Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Drop Shot the Toyko JumboGrubbin’ Buzz (2001); Betty Spindler, Fish Pan (1996)

Date: January 13, 2007 – April 8, 2007

Curated By: Billie Milam Weisman
Venue: Contemporary Art Center
900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130

Exhibited Artists:
Douglas Argue, Geoffrey Armstrong, Joon-Sung Bae, Radcliffe Bailey, Henrietta Barkham, Tim Bavington, Charles Bell, Martin Bigum, Willie Birch, Blake Boyd, Beau Bradford, Scott Brennan, Fernanda Brunet, Thomas Burke, Tom Burr, Luisa Caldwell, Luisa Chase, Christo, Chema Cobo, Jeffrey Cook, John Matos CRASH, Sean Dawson, Dawn Dedeaux, Yannick Demmerle, Lesley Dill, Tara Donovan, Yrjo Edelmann, Richard Ehrlich, Eva & Adele, Craig Fisher, Mark FLood, Catherine Forster, Eric Freeman, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Michael Gallagher, Dominique Gauthier, Candice Gawne, Torben Giehler, Jimi Gleason, Joe Goode, Jane Gottlieb, George D. Green, Red Grooms, Christopher Haun, Tim Hawkinson, Todd Hebert, David Hockney, Vincent James, Howard Kanovitz, Kang-Yong Kim, LA II (Angel Ortiz), Vladmir Llaguno, Srdjan Loncar, Renee Lotenero, Violise Lunn, Gilles Lyon, Luciano Matus, Florian Merkel, Greg Miller, Joel Morrison, Shozo Nagano, Daniel Oates, Claes Oldenburg, Roxy Paine, Todd Pavlisko, Deborah Pelias, Martin Peregrina, Carlos Perez, Emilio Perez, Michael Phelan, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mary Ellen Powell, Melanie Pullen, Jose Luis Quinones, Jessica Rath, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregg Renfrow, Angel Ricardo Rios, Aurora Robson, Thomas Ruff, Gina Ruggeri, Ed Ruscha, Masaaki Sato, Hans Christian Schink, Christoph Schmidberger, Mark Sparks, Betty Spindler, Annelies Strba, Keung Szeto, Christopher Taggart, Tony Tasset, Roy Thurston, Timothy Tompkins, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, Tim Trantenroth, Raissa Venables, Banks Violette, Tyler Vlahovich, Christian Ward, Andy Warhol, Marijke van Warmerdam, John Waters, Edward Wicklander, Lance Winn, Robert Yarber, and Masoud Yasami.

The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy and Illusion from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Many of the greatest art museum exhibitions are made possible through the vision and generosity of private collectors. Frederick R. Weisman was just such a collector. In the 1950s, Weisman began collecting modern and contemporary American and European art for his home. Today, the Weisman collection is considered one of the most important collections in the United States and includes works by iconic artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Keith Haring, and Duane Hanson among others. But it was in his capacity as a philanthropist that Weisman made his greatest and most enduring contribution. In the 1980s, he established the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation which supports the arts through grants, educational programs, and exhibitions. The works selected for the exhibition draw from Weisman's great passion for pop art and illusionistic art from the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion spotlights a selection of these artists, images, and ideas that have transformed our culture in the last half-century and also offers a glimpse into the personal vision of one of America's most important collectors of 20th century art.