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Project: Peter Saul: A Retrospective
PEI funds will allow this exhibition, organized by
curator Dan Cameron for the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, to travel
to Philadelphia, its only East Coast venue. Saul is a provocative and influential figure,
whose practice fearlessly engages controversial social issues, rendering them in a style
that recalls pop art, cartoons, and surrealism, but is uniquely his own. This show, the
most comprehensive exhibition presented of Saul’s work, will feature over 60 paintings
and drawings spanning the artist’s entire career (1960–present). PAFA will present the
most extensive public programming of any stop on the tour in an effort to maximize the
show’s impact, and their unique presentation will also include his new parody of
Thomas Eakins’s The Gross Clinic.
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