Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots
In November 2015, the Dallas Museum of Art will become the exclusive American venue for a new exhibition of works by Jackson Pollock, the first in over three decades to survey a phase of work known as his black paintings. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots will illuminate this underexplored but pivotal part of the artist’s practice. The exhibition will explore Pollock’s practice via a selection of paintings made between 1947 and 1949; these works will serve to contextualize the radical departure represented by the black paintings, a series of black enamel and oil paintings that Pollock created between 1951 and 1953. Exhibiting works from the height of the artist’s celebrity set against his lesser known paintings will offer the opportunity to appreciate Pollock’s broader ambitions as an artist, and to better understand the importance of the "blind spots" in his practice.