Curator, Samantha Friedman: Welcome to Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time. The exhibition focuses on O’Keeffe's work on paper—in pencil, in charcoal, in pastel, watercolors.
Curatorial Assistant, Emily Olek: Where we start in this exhibition, O’Keeffe is very young. You’re seeing her experiment. She would look at a subject, change media, change perspectives.
Samantha Friedman: You’ll see many different series and they show her searching nature, her pleasure in making work, her ability to reduce what she's seeing in the world to abstraction. It was incredibly radical for a woman in those early years of the 20th century to declare that she was going to be an artist and to put forth her own unique visual language.
O’Keeffe says, “To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
Emily Olek: Spend time with the works. I think it will change your experience with the show and also change your understanding of O’Keeffe.