Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Principle of Equivalence was the first major retrospective exhibition presenting a selection of seventy-three paintings and handmade paper works over nearly seventy years by New York-based artist Virginia Jaramillo (Mexican American, born 1939). Tracing the impact of the Jaramillo’s practice, which collide postwar abstraction with physics, science and the cosmos, archaeology and mythology, and modernist design philosophies, this exhibition sheds light on her career and situates it within the larger narrative of American abstract art. For decades, Jaramillo’s work has been celebrated internationally in groundbreaking exhibitions including The De Luxe Show, in 1971, one of the first major racially integrated exhibitions in the United States. Jaramillo also has an exhibition history in Kansas City that stretches back to the late 1970s.
Her work was featured in Kemper Museum’s debut exhibition in 1994 and is represented in the permanent collections of Kemper Museum, Spencer Museum, Daum Museum, and as well as in the Hallmark Collection. This exhibition was organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Erin Dziedzic, director of curatorial affairs. A full-color catalog will be published in conjunction with this exhibition and distributed by Yale University Press.
Erin Dziedzic 