2 col 05 Raffael…

Joseph Raffael, “Pond,” 2004, screen print, edition of 108, 34¾ by 48 inches.

2col 08 Celmins..

Vija Celmins, “Ocean With Cross #1,” 2005, screen print, edition of 108, 24¼ by 28¼ inches.

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FOR APRIL 25 LINCOLN CENTER’S ‘ON PAPER’ AT UBS ART GALLERY MAY 1

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NEW YORK CITY — In honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The UBS Art Gallery will present a collection of rarely seen works by contemporary artists, May 1 through July 25. “On Paper: The Lincoln Center/List Collection” will be the first comprehensive exhibition of works from the List Fine Art Poster and Print Program, which commissions leading visual artists to create posters and prints in tribute to Lincoln Center.

The exhibition will feature more than 60 special edition prints and ten fine art posters commissioned between 1962 and 2007 from artists such as Marc Chagall, Gerhard Richter, Jacob Lawrence, Chuck Close, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, Helen Frankenthaler, Ben Shahn, Joel Shapiro and Andy Warhol.

“On Paper” will celebrate the vision of founder Vera List, whose support of emerging artists and desire to introduce the public to innovative works led to the creation of many groundbreaking pieces on view in the show. An early supporter of the development of Lincoln Center with her husband Albert, List proposed a visual arts program for the new performing arts center inspired by the European posters that enticed patrons to attend the opera, ballet, theater and film.

In 1970, the List Collection broadened its scope by publishing the first signed and numbered print edition, a lithograph by James Rosenquist of three strips of film rendered in bright primary colors. Ever since, the List Collection has produced four to six signed editions of prints each year. A highlight will be a suite of six screen prints by Helen Frankenthaler dating from 1996 to 2005, which constitutes the largest single-artist holding in the List Collection.

The exhibition includes works from movements spanning the last five decades of contemporary art, including Minimalism, Pop Art, Color Field and Abstract Expressionism. Jennifer Bartlett’s “Houses,” 2005, treats a simple view of three houses, rendered using small dots of bright color, realistically and as an abstraction. Vija Celmins is represented in the exhibition by an image of water, “Ocean With Cross #1,” 2005.

Jules Olitski, a central figure in the development of abstract and Color Field painting, uses stains and sprays of dark color in his work “Mozart Nights,” 1992. An untitled 1996 print by the sculptor Joel Shapiro is a dynamic composition of simple black rectangular shapes and one bright blue square clearly relating to his three dimensional work. Gerhard Richter’s piece “Eis II,” 2003, literally translated as “ice,” features a white pigment pulled down over a darker field punctuated by incidents of color.

The UBS Art Gallery is on the ground floor of the UBS Building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd Streets. For more information, 212-713-2885 or www.ubs.com.