left image: Michael Lucero; right: Sergei Isupov; back: Frank Stella Photo: David Behl

Over the course of nearly four decades, Jerome and Simona Chazen have assembled an art collection that ranges from landmark modernist painters to sculptors in bronze, glass and clay. On view at MAD from May 26 to September 11, 2005, the exhibition "Dual Vision, The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection" will present to the public for the first time 98 masterpieces selected from this important assemblage. The exhibition celebrates a major gift of glass and ceramics from the Chazens for the Museum's permanent collection from two of the Museum's most dedicated supporters. Jerome Chazen, chairman emeritus, is the head of the Building Campaign for the new museum building at Two Columbus Circle, and Simona Chazen is co-chair of the Museum's Collections Committee.

Outstanding for its quality, breadth, and depth, the Chazen Collection celebrates art across genre boundaries, encompassing a wide range of important works by leading artists of the 20th century and today. Common to all works in the collection is the artists' imaginative engagement with materials and techniques as they pushed the perceived boundaries of their fields and explored new forms of creative expression. Indicative of the scope of work that will be on display, exhibition highlights will include paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, Milton Avery, and Jean Dubuffet, shown alongside masterworks of glass by William Morris, Mary Shaffer and Klaus Moje, and ceramic sculptures by Rudy Autio and Sir Anthony Caro. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.