Directions 1986

"'Directions 1986' is the fourth in a series of biennial exhibitions of contemporary art presented by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...The current exhibition differs from its predecessors in the series in that it is divided into only two sections ['Painting into Nature' & 'Toward the Baroque']...much of the work in the current exhibition does refer to, not by quotation but in sensibility, is various historical high art traditions." -- Introduction, page 7.

Artists included in the exhibition: Alice Fellows, Peter Fleps, Melissa Miller, Yolanda Shashaty, Robert Morris, Hope Sandrow, Frank Stella, James Turrell.