![]() Yet the award demonstrates the Foundation’s commitment to that key stage in an artist’s career which lies between being a hot young talent, and a venerable master within the contemporary canon. ![]() Smith’s films, which deal with racial and sexual identity, psychogeography and afrofuturism, are about as far removed from Kelly’s canvases as is possible. ![]() Its first annual $40,000 grant will go to Give It Or Leave It, a solo exhibition of film, video, and sculpture by 48-year-old Californian filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith, which will open towards the end of 2018 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. The new Ellsworth Kelly Award will be given out annually, to help stage “a solo exhibition by an emerging, mid-career, or under-recognized contemporary visual artist at a regional art museum or university or college art gallery in the United States,” and will focus, in alternate years, on either the eastern or western half of the country. Photo credit: courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Chatham X: Black Red, 1971, oil on canvas, 2 joined panels, 108 x 95 3/4 inches, 274.3 x 243.2 cm.
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