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Join Us I am Myself: Early Works by Bob Thompson and Friends at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects gathers works by a group of artists who Thompson first met in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1958. Thompson had arrived from Louisville, Kentucky, hoping to meet the artist Jan Müller, but Müller died before that was realized. The group included Emilio Cruz, Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, Bill Barrell, Jay Milder, and older artists Gandy Brodie and Lester Johnson.
The year that these artists met is significant: Jasper Johns had his first solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery at the beginning of 1958. Johns’s show presented the era’s first real alternative to Abstract Expressionism, giving rise to Pop art and Minimalism, which dominated much of the art world’s attention for nearly two decades. The current exhibition includes 21 pieces in different mediums by nine artists, as well as nine by Thompson.
Although largely sidelined in art.
