2015-05-27

2145 - U.S.A. - GOLDENDALE-WASHINGTON - American Indian Painting: Twentieth-Century Masters - 15.03.2015-05.07.2015

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Allan C. Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914–1994), Buffalo Hunt, 1952, gouache on illustration board, 17¼” x 26½”; Arthur and Shifra Silberman Collection, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
 
 
 
This exhibition brings to the Columbia River Gorge a collection of 35 paintings of a type seldom—if ever—exhibited in the Pacific Northwest. Curated by Maryhill’s Steve Grafe, the exhibition features some of the most important American Indian artists of the 20th century. The featured artists were residents of the Southern Plains and Southwest, and affiliated with the University of Oklahoma, Bacone College and the Santa Fe Studio; they include Stephen Mopope (Kiowa), Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache), Fred Beaver (Creek/Seminole), Jerome Tiger (Creek/Seminole), Harrison Begay (Navajo) and Tony Da (San Ildefonso).

All of the paintings are drawn from the collection of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.




Maryhill Museum of Art - American Indian Painting: Twentieth-Century Masters - 15.03.2015-05.07.2015
 
 
 
 
 


2015-05-20

2144 - U.S.A. - GLENS FALLS-NEW YORK - The Late Drawings of Andy Warhol: 1973-1987 - 21.06.2015-27.09.2015

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More than any other medium, drawing was essential to Andy Warhol's creative output. This exhibition, organized by The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, offers works created during one of the most prolific periods of his life, employing a confident and fluid contour line to depict some of the same motifs of his iconic paintings: celebrity portraits, flowers, and ads. Many of the drawings in this exhibition are on view to the public for the first time.

The Late Drawings of Andy Warhol: 1973-1987 was organized by the Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.



The Hyde Collection - The Late Drawings of Andy Warhol: 1973-1987 - 21.06.2015 - 27.09.2015 



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2015-05-13

2143 - U.S.A. - FORT WORTH-TEXAS - FRAMING DESIRE: Photography and Video - 21.02.2015-23.08.2015

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(c)Anne Svenson - Neighbors 52

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents FRAMING DESIRE, an exhibition showcasing over 40 recent acquisitions alongside iconic photographs and videos from the permanent collection. The Museum has acquired key works by Cory Arcangel, Artemio, Larry Clark, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Debbie Grossman, Candida Höfer, Misty Keasler, Ragnar Kjartansson, Vera Lutter, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ryan McGinley, Nicholas Nixon, Catherine Opie, Orit Raff, Laurie Simmons, Allison V. Smith, Arne Svenson, Frank Thiel, and Gillian Wearing.

The artists included in FRAMING DESIRE each use their medium in ways that transcend what the imagery literally depicts to intensify the idea of desire. Interweaving the documentary, subjective, and symbolic, these artists address sexuality, gender, longing, catharsis, and transgression, among other subjects.

In her essay “In Plato’s Cave” from 1973, the philosopher and political activist Susan Sontag discusses desire as it relates to the photographed image. She theorizes that desirability is enhanced by the distance photographs can create, and that such imagery conjures the emotion by suggesting something unattainable. Sontag uses the examples of a lover’s photograph tucked into a married woman’s wallet, a rock-star poster in an adolescent’s bedroom, and the snapshot of a cabdriver’s children clipped to the sun visor. “All such talismanic uses of photographs,” Sontag writes, “express a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical: they are attempts to contact or lay claim to another reality.”

Like Sontag’s assessment of photography, video also has the ability to seamlessly flow between reality and fantasy—and each medium does so to a marked degree over painting, drawing, or sculpture, especially because they often depict objects, places, and people from the real world. Yet even with their believability over other mediums, by the aim of the camera, click of the shutter, or roll of the film, artists choreograph and construct their shots, bringing their subjectivity to the image. Viewers add even more layers of personal perspective to what they see. This artist/viewer dynamic can transform the ordinariness of real people, architecture, and landscapes into images that incite desire.

Andrea Karnes, curator of FRAMING DESIRE, comments, “This exhibition highlights several of the most important contemporary artists of the last four decades, with a number of new acquisitions that meaningfully add context to the Modern’s growing collection in the areas of photography and video.” Karnes adds, “The artists included here explore the premise of desire, a topic that has been investigated in art in intriguing ways for centuries. The works are grouped into three themes of desire: Ages, Rooms, and Scapes. These updated takes on the traditional subjects of portraiture, architecture, and landscape make the well-traversed themes seem more magnified and provocative, especially when they are couched within the framework of desire.”

Ages is a variant on the genre of portraiture, showing stages of life from early childhood to death. This theme includes Rineke Dijkstra, whose photographs Dubrovnik, Croatia, July 13, 1996 and Hilton Head Island, SC, June 22, 1992 are from her seminal Bathers series, for which she posed adolescents wearing bathing suits in austere, formal poses along the coastlines of Central Eastern Europe and America. In a broad sense, these portraits are emblematic of the particular societies from which the teens come, creating intriguing comparisons between youth of the various geographic regions. With the delicate age Dijkstra focuses on in this series, she shows an extraordinary and often painful stage of being human regardless of locale—acknowledging the anxiety, posturing, pride, insecurity, and vulnerability of the years between childhood and adulthood.
The exhibition includes photographs and videos on the theme Ages by Cory Arcangel, Artemio, Larry Clark, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Debbie Grossman, Loretta Lux, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ryan McGinley, Nicholas Nixon, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Gillian Wearing.

Rooms takes into account the interiors and architecture that several artists in FRAMING DESIRE explore as subject matter, often to scrutinize how such structures function in our lives and how they can spark voyeurism, recall a time and place, or fulfill the desire to see a space we have not experienced firsthand. Within the theme of Rooms, the early cut “drawings” of Gordon Matta-Clark from the 1970s resonate alongside the voyeuristic perspective of the Holes series by Hubbard/Birchler from the 1990s, as each group of images offers uncharacteristic views through architecture from unusual points of view. The theme Rooms includes works by Candida Höfer, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler, Misty Keasler, Gordon Matta-Clark, Orit Raff, Allison V. Smith, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Arne Svenson.

Scapes includes a range of artists who present landscapes, sites, places, or events both majestic and commonplace, often imbuing one with a sense of the other. Uta Barth’s photographs take on unremarkable aspects of the landscape that often go unnoticed in our daily lives. Her diptych from the series Nowhere Near, 1999, depicts a combination of crisp and blurred imagery of trees, rooflines, and power lines that, at times, borders on post-painterly abstraction. The artist’s cropping, framing, and distorted views subtly deconstruct conventional notions of cityscapes, edging peripheral street scenes and grey, winter skies toward the sublime. Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s video/performance A Lot of Sorrow offers a different approach to Scapes. He arranged for the band The National to play their song “Sorrow” repeatedly and continuously on stage for six hours, creating a work that is repetitive over a long duration, but surprisingly expansive. While the mood of A Lot of Sorrow wanes and swells throughout the performance, the shadowy and atmospheric nocturnal scenes, along with the song, create a beautiful and austere scape to contemplate the emotion of sorrow and harness the artist’s desire to work through personal and collective emotion (his, the band’s, the crowd’s, and the viewer’s).

Artists engaging in the theme of Scapes include Uta Barth, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ragnar Kjartansson, Rosemary Laing, Vera Lutter, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, Melanie Smith, and Frank Thiel.


Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - FRAMING DESIRE: Photography and Video - 21.02.2015 - 23.08.2015


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2015-05-06

2142 - U.S.A. - FORT LAUDERDALE-FLORIDA - Pablo Picasso: Painted Ceramics and Works on Paper, 1931 – 71 - 12.03.2015-01.11.205

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 Pablo Picasso  Spanish Pitcher 1954

One of the most prolific and significant artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) produced approximately 50,000 works in a variety of mediums; ceramics, drawings, paintings, prints, rugs, sculptures and tapestries. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is fortunate to own a significant number of his aquatints, ceramics, etchings and linocuts, gifts of various generous donors over the years.
 
This exhibition includes 72 objects of which 14 are etchings dating 1931-33 from Picasso’s famous Vollard Suite (1931-37). It was commissioned by art dealer Ambroise Vollard in exchange for paintings by Paul Cézanne and Pierre-August Renoir. These early works from the Suite were inspired in part by Picasso’s involvement with a monumental sculpture commission. They feature the artist (a nude bearded sculptor) at work and relaxing in his studio, his nude model and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was then Picasso’s mistress, scenes of pleasure and frolic, some of which include acrobats, bulls, or horses.  These elegant, expressive images reveal Picasso’s artistic and emotional universe of the early 1930s.
 
Several aquatints and etchings from the Museum’s collection are also in the exhibition, along with linocuts on loan to the Museum from collectors Drs. Mildred and Walter Padow.  These and other works on paper are juxtaposed with more than 50 ceramic bowls, pitchers, and plates that Picasso made and painted while living in the South of France.  These date from 1947-71, and their imagery explores many of the themes of Picasso’s earlier work, such as animals, acrobats, bacchanals, bullfights, fauns and other mythological figures, and owls (Picasso had a pet owl).  Given to the Museum by Miami Beach hotelier Bernie Bercuson in 1991, these ceramics reveal Picasso’s ability to be as innovative in the medium of clay as he had been in all of the others that he addressed. His innovations in ceramics spearheaded subsequent advances in the medium that elevated its status from craft to art.
 
Picasso began working with clay in 1946 after visiting the famous annual pottery exhibition in Vallauris, France, where he was impressed by works from the Madoura ceramic workshop, owned by Suzanne and Georges Ramié.  This town and the area in general had supported the production of clay since Roman times.  In exchange for access to the resources of the Madoura workshop, Picasso allowed the Ramiés to produce and sell editions of his work, and the ceramics in the exhibition are among them.  Picasso loved the flexibility of clay and the firing process.  As he painted forms on workshop produced clay objects and those he designed and created, he brought inanimate objects to life with expressive vitality and humor.  Picasso’s innovative work in clay spearheaded subsequent advances in the medium that led to its current recognition as a form of art rather than a craft.
 
While in Madoura, Picasso met Jacqueline Roque, who became his second wife in 1961, and the exhibition includes a plate on which Picasso painted her face in profile. The two went often to the annual pottery exhibitions in Vallauris as well as bullfights there, and 7 of the linocuts that Picasso designed that were printed as posters for these events are also on view.
 
Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.
 
 
 
 
NSU Art Museum - Pablo Picasso: Painted Ceramics and Works on Paper, 1931 – 71-
12.03.2015-01.11.2015