Artists included in this exhibition: Mary Bauermeister, Emil Bisttram, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Graves, Raymond Jonson, Yayoi Kusama, Norman Lewis, Alfonso Ossorio, Richard Pousette-Dart, Martin Puryear, Anne Ryan, Charles Seliger, Lenore Tawney, Toshiko Takaezu, Pavel Tchelitchew, Mark Tobey, and Charmion von Wiegand
Essence of the Orb is an exhibition of twenty artists who have consistently gravitated toward the form of the orb. The orb, simultaneously charged with celestial, sexual, and embryonic implications, consistently appears in the work of numerous twentieth-century artists attempting to express the intangible in pictorial terms. Whether or not an artist is conscious of his or her use of the form, the orb appears and, as defined as defined by Jungian philosophy, communicates to the "collective unconscious".