Past Exhibition

Ida Kohlmeyer: Systems of Color
October 21– December 19, 2004

This exhibition to be curated by Prof. Michael Plante will be the first major scholarly presentation of Ms. Kohlmeyer’s work since her death. Ida Kohlmeyer was arguably the most significant Louisiana artist of the last forty years. Trained in New Orleans and New York, she was an active painter and sculptor until the end of her life. Our exhibition will assess Kohlmeyer’s whole career and reflect upon her ongoing engagement with contemporary movements in art. In particular it will relate her concern with symbols to the traditions of Abstract Expressionism and the work of her colleagues Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and David Smith, among others. The interest in signs and symbols (Kohlmeyer frequently referred to her paintings as “Rebuses” or as “Semiotic Studies”) defined her unique contribution and made her one of the most important painters and sculptors of the southern United States.

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