No. 696: Joe Overstreet, Haegue Yang

Episode No. 696 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Natalie Dupêcher and Leigh Arnold.

Dupêcher is the curator of “Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight” at the Menil Collection, Houston. “Taking Flight” offers work from three of Overstreet’s abstract painting series: Flight Pattern (early 1970s), and related bodies of work from the 1960s and 1990s. While recent exhibitions such as “Now Dig This!” (Hammer Museum, 2011) and “Soul of a Nation” (Tate Modern, 2017) have included Overstreets, this is the first solo museum exhibition of his work in 30 years. The Menil’s exhbition guide is available here. An exhibition catalogue will be available in the late spring. “Taking Flight” is on view through July 13.

Arnold is the curator of “Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields” at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Across two floors, the exhibition reveals Yang’s critique of the modernist project and its tendency toward singular Western domination. It is on view through April 27.

Works discussed on the program include:

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Air date: March 6, 2025.

Joe Overstreet HooDoo Mandala, 1970.

Installation view of Crawler from 1968 in “Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight.”

Joe Overstreet, Justice, Faith, Hope, and Peace, 1968.

Joe Overstreet, North Star, 1968.

Joe Overstreet, Great Mother of All, 1970.

Joe Overstreet, Kernel, 1993.

Installation view of an untitled work from 1972 in , “Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight.”

Installation view of Man and Woman Came from a Reed (R) Free Direction from 1971 (R) in “Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight.”

Haegue Yang, Mignon Votive – Nacre Flapper Seedpod #11, 2025.

Installation view of “Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields.”

Installation view of “Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields.”

Installation view of “Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields.”

Installation view of “Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields.”

Installation view of “Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields.”

 

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