This publication accompanies the exhibition Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in 2019.

The French art movement, Supports/Surfaces produced artwork marked by an interest in materiality, a lyrical use of color, and expansive ideas of what constitutes a painting. French society was undergoing social protests and upheavals in the 1960s that mirrored the civil rights and anti-war movements in the USA. The Supports/Surfaces artists sought new forms and methods to reflect their times: standard art materials were dropped in favor of homespun non-art materials (bed sheets, rope, dish rags) and figuration was replaced by loose, permeable grids that hinted at a more democratic method of art-making and a proposal for humane
society. Although working abstractly, these artists shared a deeply political approach to making and showing art.