GROUP SHOW WITH ALLISON ZUCKERMAN
AFTER MODERNISM: SELECTIONS FROM THE NEUMANN FAMILY COLLECTION

ARTHUR ROSS GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA, US
17 JANUARY – 2 MARCH 2025

AFTER MODERNISM: SELECTIONS FROM THE NEUMANN FAMILY COLLECTION examines the prominent private collection of the Neumann Family of more than 3,000 artworks collected from 1948 onward. Featuring more than 50 works traversing the Modernist canon (including Picasso, Miro, and Matisse) to late 20th-century contemporary art including Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, Allison Zuckerman, Danny Farrell, and Nina Chanel Abney.

“After Modernism is a celebration of renewal,” said Dr. Shaw. “It reflects the transformation of the gallery, the vibrancy of the Neumann Family Collection, and the ongoing importance of Penn as a center for artistic discovery and scholarship. I am thrilled to debut this exhibition in a space that feels both timeless and forward-looking.

© Photo by Allison Zuckerman

AFTER MODERNISM: SELECTIONS FROM THE NEUMANN FAMILY COLLECTION is curated by Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, with assistance from the students in “The Art of Art Collecting,” a special SNF Paideia Program seminar, co-taught with Peter Decherney, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities. The exhibition features VR experiences of the Neumann Family Collection in New York City produced by the class in collaboration with Agora World Inc.

FEATURED ARTIST

ALLISON ZUCKERMAN
Allison Zuckerman (b. 1990 in Philadelphia, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2015. The content of her paintings draws equally from the annals of art history and the imagery of net culture, with a special focus on the representation of women by male authors. Composed of collaged elements torn from previous work, which are then painted over, Zuckerman’s pictures are filled with colourful figures and fragments, packed to the point of almost total saturation, creating endless pictorial connections between otherwise disparate cultural symbols and motifs.

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