Name: ArtBreak: Robert Motherwell
Start: 2025-04-09T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-09T12:30:00-05:00
Location: 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd, Birmingham, AL

Drop by the BMA for a midday art fix! Join UAB student Mackenzie Meade for an in-depth discussion of Robert Motherwell’s Lyric Suite on view in the American galleries. As co-curator of the installation Drawing with Color, Mackenzie will discuss Motherwell’s practice of automatic drawing, or what he called “doodling.” She will also explore Motherwell’s many art world relationships and how these encounters helped shape the Lyric Suite.
Image credit: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991), Lyric Suite, 1965, ink on rice paper; Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by the Merton Brown Estate and the Thelma Brown Trust, AFI.10.2001.9