Frank Jackson: Echo
January 12–April 20 , 2008
Jackson uses the tangible, physical means of paint to excavate an emotional and
psychological terrain in his work. His signature abstract paintings, prints,
and drawings, on view in this exhibition, demonstrate sensitivity to surface
and texture. Through a process of scraping back and re-laying paint, Jackson
reveals surfaces of evolving forms and abstract vistas that evoke a sense of
both chaos and order.
Felix Gonzalez Torres: "Untitled" (Placebo) 1991
December 1, 2007–March 23, 2008
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Known for his minimalist installations and sculptures, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Placebo) features
1200pounds of silver-wrapped candy that make a monumental carpet in the museum’s
largest gallery. Visitors are encouraged to participate in the sculpture by taking
pieces of the candy. The disappearance of the sculpture in part symbolizes the
experience of irreplaceable loss. The work is being presented as part of the
museum’s continued commitment to World AIDS Day. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Placebo) is
on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
New Acquisitions/New Perspectives
September 15, 2007–January 6, 2008
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This exhibition features 21 works that have recently been added to WCMA's permanent
collection. Featuring contemporary work by Laylah Ali, Patty Chang, Liu Zheng,
Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter and Susan Meiselas, among others, this exhibition
reflects important movements in both art and art history, positioning the museum's
collection at the forefront of contemporary art and in tune with the latest trends
in art scholarship. Also featured is a painting dating from the mid- 19th century
from India that demonstrates the museum’s continued commitment to enhancing
its unusually rich holdings in this area.
Critical Encounters: Collecting Contemporary
Photography
August 4–December
16, 2007
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Critical Encounters: Collecting Contemporary
Photography features 48 photographs from the
collection of art critic Phyllis Tuchman. Over her long
and prodigious career, which has included stints as a
curator and a professor of art history, Tuchman has written
extensively about modern art, with notable contributions
to the literature on George Segal, Anthony Caro, and
Carl Andre, among many others.
Media Field Gallery
William Kentridge's Felix in Exile
September 18– November 18, 2007
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This film is the first of three exhibition presented
this year featuring the work of pioneering South African
artist William Kentridge. Working across media and embracing
video, sculpture, printmaking, and performance, Kentridge
works in the tradition of socially and politically engaged
artists, such as William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Honore
Daumier, and Kathe Kollwitz. His work reflects on the
human condition, specifically the oppression of apartheid
and the ways in which our personal and collective histories
are intertwined.
Making It New:
The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
July 8–November
11, 2007
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Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald
Murphy is the first to explore the pivotal contribution
of Gerald and Sara Murphy to twentieth century arts and letters.
Gerald Murphy’s seven existing paintings are but one
aspect of a project examining the Murphys in the context of
the circle of artistic and literary moderns that flourished
around them in Paris and the Riviera in the 1920s and 1930s.
Work by the Murphys' circle of friends including Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger,
Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Philip
Barry, is viewed through the nexus of the Murphys’ artistically adventurous
yet gracious milieu. An interdisciplinary enterprise, it presents not only works
of art but set and costume decor, photography, music, letters, film, and a rich
trove of archival material including home movies and audio reminiscences. Through
their famous friendships, the Murphys inspired some of the greatest art and literature
of the twentieth century.
Karin Stack: Idylls
July 14–September 16, 2007
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Williamstown, MA–The Williams College Museum
of Art (WCMA) presents Karin Stack: Idylls, on view July 14 through September
16, 2007. In Stack's photography beautiful birds rest in trees in full spring
bloom, a man stands on a cliff overlooking the sea in a moment of solitary contemplation,
and a snake coils in rough, red-soil terrain. But look again and then again.
All is not what it appears in the images of Karin Stack, who photographs elaborate
tableaux that combine models, paintings, and both real and photographed landscapes.
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