National Academy Museum Exhibition Curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed Featured Dorothea Rockburne and Blakelock

An exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York, curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed, ran from July 14 to October 9, 2005. The show featured work by Dorothea Rockburne and included paintings by Blakelock, who employed a decalcomania-like technique involving load, press, smear, and lift. This material-based process created textured surfaces with scattered reds, oranges, and yellows, drawing comparisons to Jackson Pollock's work. A memorial event was scheduled for October 5 at the Century Association. Artists and scholars participated in lectures and panels at venues including SVA and the Studio School during a new season of programming. A short version of an article about the exhibition first appeared in The Burlington Magazine. The publication 'Jean Hélion' with essays by Didier Ottinger, Henry-Claude Cousseau, Matthew Gale, and Debra Bricker Balken was published in 2004 by Paul Holberton Publishing in London. The exhibition was noted as an artcritical PIC in April 2010.