Fairbanks began as a
gold-mining town. The gold case displays small to fist-sized nuggets
recovered from streams, as well as gold worked into artistic objects. This
is the largest display of gold nuggets in the state.
Unknown Maker (American) Over the Shoulder Necklace, 1940s, glass and metal Collection of Charles G. Schoenknecht.
December 11 - January 24, 2010
The use of glass in jewelry design has a long
history. As the concurrent Museum of Arts and Design-curated
exhibition GlassWear makes clear, glass continues to inspire
contemporary makers to blur the boundary between functionality and
art.
Ornamenting the body, jewelry draws attention to
the wearer and showcases their individual sense of adventure and
style. For most people, artist-designed glass jewelry has long been
available in the form of rhinestone costume jewelry manufactured by
others, in multiple copies.
All That Glitter: Modern Rhinestone Jewelry was
selected by Paul W. Richelson, Chief Curator, from the large, private
Midwestern collection of Charles G. Schoenknecht, the Atlanta
collection of Martha Stamm Connell and another private Southern
collection. The exhibition spotlights the importance of rhinestone
jewelry, from the 1920s through the 1960s, when a familiar day dress
or evening gown could be transformed with the addition of a sparkly
pin, bracelet or necklace. During that time, American and European
high-fashion designers embraced costume jewelry and even designed
collections and helped popularize the rhinestone accessory.
Collected over a 30-year
period, this exhibition includes many examples of American and
European originality in design, such as glittery pieces created to add
a happy, positive note to holiday celebrations. In the spirit of the
season in which these pieces are exhibited, the Museum will also
present the Noel Concept Collection of artwork created by local
artists commissioned by the Art Patrons League and the Mobile Museum
of Art in the 1980s and 1990s.
Claudia DeMonte (American, b. 1947), Female Fetish: 9/11 Teddy,2001,
pewter and brass on wood.
April 30 - July 11, 2010
Claudia DeMonte is an accomplished and gifted
artist, a dedicated teacher, a curator and a collector. The
development of her art has taken her through a variety of
materials: painted pulp paper sculptures, works in clay,
photography installations, bronze and recently, in her Female
Fetish series, pewter milagros nailed onto wooden sculptures.
Throughout her explorations of media, she has
remained consistent. In each stage of her career, with each
medium, she has combined sobering commentary on the status of
women in the world with lighthearted humor. The exhibition of
DeMonte’s work will be complemented in the Education Wing with her
collection of handmade folk dolls from around the world.
Real Beauty will be accompanied by a new book
on DeMonte’s career by Eleanor Heartney, with an introduction by
Agnes Gund.
The exhibition is organized
by the Mobile Museum of Art and Claudia DeMonte.
African and Asian
Collection Gallery:Houses the David
and Inger Duberman Collection of Chinese cloissoné as well as selections
of works by African, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Turkish artists from the
permanent collection.
Altmayer
Gallery:Features works of American
art from the permanent collection.
Katharine C.
Cochrane Gallery of American Fine Art:Installation of American paintings, sculpture and furniture
from the nineteenth century through contemporary art from the permanent
collection and "The American Way" loan exhibition.
Maisel European
Gallery:Overview of European
paintings, prints, sculpture, and decorative arts from the permanent
collection.
Riddick Glass
Gallery:Features gifts of European
decorative arts and contemporary European studio glass.
The Bead Museum Store has just received a
shipment of incredible Greek Ceramic beads and metal spacers from Mykonos
Beads! The finishes include raku, copper, gold, antique silver,
green patina, and various colors of theMediterranean.
The Measure of a Man in a
Head-Taking Land: Tribal Adornment of Nagaland India
Arizonans will soon get a
glimpse into a culture that has traditionally been vehemently guarded and
tucked away from the rest of the
world. The Measure of a Man, which
opens September 18, will take museum visitors on a journey to Nagaland,
chronicling the unique cultures and practices of the peoples of Nagaland
in northeast India. The exhibition will
showcase an ornate society, layered with various types of adornment that
hold intrinsic and societal importance.
The History of
Beads
The exhibition presents a "time-line" of
hundreds of original bead examples and their origins in time and place
from 40 000.BCE until today. This showcases the originals in a display
curated by Jamey Allen and the time-line first developed by researcher,
Jamey Allen.
The Language of
Beads
An introduction to the terminology used by bead
researchers, collectors, traders and crafters to describe the vast variety
of bead types, shapes and makes that make up this common language of
reference for the specialist and bead enthusiast.
Beads from
Nature
The rich diversity of beads fashioned from the
natural materials of the earth using examples from the cultures of the
world. The exhibition is presented in two sections: Organic Materials, or
carbon based sources that include plant and animal based
products
Nature has been the source for human adornment long before
recorded history, as is evidenced by pierced shells found in ancient
burial sites. The oldest confirmed beads are ostrich eggshell, found in
the Rift Valley, Kenya dating 37,000 to 39,900 years ago.
Organics refer to carbon-based matter, which
are largely plant and animal materials and/or the products produced by
them. Organic material often decomposes, making the rare occurrence in a
primitive burial site an exceptional find. So highly valued are many
organic materials such as shells, amber, feathers and tusks that they have
been used as objects of trade, hence a form of currency.
Inorganics
or non-carbon based materials, are therefore naturally occurring material,
which is non-biological in origin, ex. minerals and rocks. Carved stone
beads and other inorganic materials have been prized for their beauty and
rarity of perceived magical properties from early in human
history.
Observing our physical world, appreciating its
beauty and using it for personal adornment is a part of the universal
human experience. The desire to embellish ourselves seems deeply
ingrained, if not for personal pleasure then for symbolic attributes often
expressing a spiritual belief. Products from nature remind us of our
shared stewardship on Earth, all around us and a part of us. This
exhibition shows examples of these products used as jewelry and trade,
bringing distant tribal expressions to us.
The Mesa Contemporary Arts Collection contains
nearly 200 objects in all media including paintings, sculpture, works on
paper, photography, and decorative arts objects, and is presented in a
series of exhibitions in the SRP Permanent Collection Gallery.
30th Annual Contemporary Crafts
Exhibition
Highlighting the finest in contemporary crafts
from around the country, Mesa Contemporary Art’s Annual Contemporary
Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality.
This year represents a milestone for the museum as it celebrates the 30th
anniversary of this popular juried exhibition. Representative of
traditional craft mediums including ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals,
wood, glass, jewelry, papermaking and book arts, this exhibition showcases
58 artworks by 39 artists from 14 states.
Jewelry & Metals
Studio
The Jewelry and Metalsmithing Program was
designed to teach traditional and ancient techniques as well as
contemporary innovations using a combination of technology, history and
art. Beginners learn the art and craft of metal work while accomplished
artists find a stimulating environment where they can explore new
techniques and develop and share ideas with other artists.
Sculpture Studio
The new Sculpture Studio and Terrace provide a fluid indoor/outdoor
space ideal for creating in a variety of media. Students master techniques
while creating work that explores visual history, human-made forms and the
natural world.
The Sculpture Program is new to the Mesa Arts
Center. Courses offered in the inaugural session are based on the skills
of our first Artist in Residence, Derrell Tousley. Basic Sculpture, Steel
Fabrication, Welding, Stone Carving and Kinetic Art are offered as initial
classes.
Appraisal Day Saturday, March
20, 2010, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Heard Museum Phoenix Gather your American Indian treasures, antiquities and
other collectibles. Get an expert opinion on your American Indian artwork as
leading art traders offer information about materials, dates, artists and
traditions. Appraisals are not for insurance purposes, but solely for
educational information. Appraisal fees apply.
HOME: Native People in the
Southwest
Experience the Heard's most prized
masterpieces, sweeping landscapes, poetry and personal recollections on an
unforgettable journey through the Southwest and the vibrant arts and
cultures of Native people. Quotes and interviews with artists and
Native community members are interwoven throughout the
exhibition reflecting on the importance of family, community, land
and languages. Join us for an exciting trip through the American
Indian Southwest, from the distant past to today.
HOME features:
* Nearly 2,000 treasures including jewelry,
cultural items, pottery, baskets, textiles, beadwork and more. * 500
Hopi katsina dolls on display from the Goldwater and Harvey Company
collections. * 30-foot stunning glass and clay art fence by Tony
Jojola, Isleta, and Rosemary Lonewolf, Santa Clara/Tewa.
* Garden filled with native plants and trees.
* Interactive e-room with access to Web sites, radio stations,
and Native newspapers and magazines. * Multimedia and interactive
displays, free films and a video gallery showing the new production
HOME. * Full-sized Navajo hogan, Hopi piki room, Yaqui
ramada and Pueblo oven. * 21-foot mural featuring a cultural
portrait of the Yaqui people by Mario Martinez, Pascua
Yaqui.
Tour the global span of the Heard Museum’s
permanent collection. This exhibit will focus on more than 75 years of
collecting and preserving Native art and cultures in the Southwest and
beyond. Starting with examples of work collected by museum founders,
Dwight and Maie Heard, and including donations by artists and collectors
such as Byron Harvey and Richard Faletti, the exhibit features objects and
artwork from indigenous peoples of North and South America as well as
Oceania. Housed in the newly renovated COMPAS gallery.
Gifts to Celebrate! The Heard Museum's 75th
Anniversary This exhibit showcases an extensive array of
objects most of which have never before been on display from the Heard’s
renowned 32,000 object collection. From textiles to jewelry, metalwork to
sculpture and katsina dolls, the show’s diversity is a testament to the
growth and development of the Heard’s collection during its 75-year
history.
SET IN STONE: 2000 Years of Gem and
Mineral Trade in the Southwest
Now through February 2010
Over the last 54 years, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show has grown
enormously along with its impact on the local economy, but the lure of the
minerals beneath our soil has generated trade for much longer than that.
Gems, minerals, copper, and even sea shells and other exotic goods have
been carried across the Southwest along well-established and well-worn
routes for more than 2000 years. Set in Stone
brings this long history to light, featuring 800 objects and audio-visual
displays. With Native jewelry and mining tools from across the span of
time, and with mineral samples, photographs, and recordings, the viewer is
transported on a journey of deep historical resonance along routes that
trace how the quest for mineral wealth has shaped the identity of the
Southwest. Designed to complement and coincide with the Tucson Gem and
Mineral Show, Set in Stone gives context and
perspective to our community’s annual gathering.
PATHS OF LIFE: American Indians of the
Southwest
This exhibition showcases the origins, history and contemporary
cultures of southwestern indigenous peoples in an exciting mix of
prehistoric artifacts, historic objects, commissioned artwork, video
interviews, and life-cast dioramas.
"Watercarrier," a bronze sculpture by
Apache artist Craig Dan Goseyun, adorns the front entrance of ASM's north
building. Purchased by Arnold and Doris Roland as a generous gift to the
museum, "Watercarrier" represents one of the most vital elements to a
desert community - water.
Now through February 2010 SET IN STONE: 2000 Years of Gem and Mineral Trade in the
Southwest
Over the last 54 years, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show has grown
enormously along with its impact on the local economy, but the lure of the
minerals beneath our soil has generated trade for much longer than that.
Gems, minerals, copper, and even sea shells and other exotic goods have
been carried across the Southwest along well-established and well-worn
routes for more than 2000 years. Set in Stone
brings this long history to light, featuring 800 objects and audio-visual
displays. With Native jewelry and mining tools from across the span of
time, and with mineral samples, photographs, and recordings, the viewer is
transported on a journey of deep historical resonance along routes that
trace how the quest for mineral wealth has shaped the identity of the
Southwest. Designed to complement and coincide with the Tucson Gem and
Mineral Show, Set in Stone gives context and
perspective to our community’s annual gathering.
WATERCARRIER," a bronze sculpture
by Apache artist Craig Dan Goseyun, adorns the front entrance of ASM's
north building. Purchased by Arnold and Doris Roland as a generous gift to
the museum, "Watercarrier" represents one of the most vital elements to a
desert community—water.
World of the Pharaohs Egyptian Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston September 25, 2009 - July 3,
2010
World of the Pharaohs consists of more than 200 objects spanning 3,000
years of dynastic history. Dramatically illustrating the rich and diverse
aspects of one of the world’s great civilizations, this exhibition
showcases excavated material from the Pyramid age, widely regarded as
Egypt’s finest hour. This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston.
The Arkansas Arts Center has been steadfastly committed to building a
collection of unique works on paper, primarily American and European, from
the Renaissance to the present. Among the most recognizable works in the
collection are sheets by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Alison Saar, Rembrandt and Rubens. The Arts Center Collection
also features 135 drawings and watercolors by the Post-Impressionist Paul
Signac, over 100 Post-Minimalist drawings, Arthur Dove's Sketchbook "E",
and nearly 80 works by Will Barnet.
Masterworks in the collection include paintings by Diego Rivera, Odilon
Redon and Francesco Bassano; sculpture by Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson and
Roy Lichtenstein; and prints by Rembrandt, Whistler and Dürer.
The second major area of collecting is contemporary objects in craft
media, including teapots by contemporary artists, contemporary baskets,
turned wood objects, studio glass, ceramics, metalwork and jewelry
designed by artists. Among the highlights are works by Dale Chihuly,
Albert Paley, Peter Voulkos and Dorothy Gill Barnes.
Currents in Contemporary Art
Ongoing Organized by the Arkansas Arts Center
Currents in Contemporary Art features works of art from the permanent
collection of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation. The installation
focuses on commonalities in the technique, materials, subject matter and
concepts that have informed artists and their work in the 20th and 21st
centuries.
52nd Annual Delta Exhibition
January 29 – March 14, 2010
One the longest running, juried contemporary art exhibitions outside
New York City, the Delta is open to all artists living in or born
in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee or
Texas. Founded in 1956, the Delta was created to showcase contemporary
works by artists of the Mississippi Delta region. Today, the Annual
Delta Exhibition has grown to encompass works in all media and
reflects the region’s strong traditions of craftsmanship and observation,
combined with innovative use of materials and an experimental approach to
subject matter.
Young Arkansas Artists 49th Annual Exhibition
April 9 – May 23, 2010
Organized by the Arkansas Arts Center with the cooperation of the
Arkansas Department of Education, the Young Arkansas Artists
exhibition showcases artworks of all media created by students in
kindergarten through 12th grade in Arkansas schools. The
Young Arkansas Artists 49th Annual Exhibition will be
held at the Terry House Community Gallery.
The Gia Museum - The Gemological
Institute of America
The museum's various collections are an opportunity to give the
viewer some scientific understanding of gem's and gemstones and to enhance
the public appreciation of the same when used in jewelry. The museum is
also an invaluable resource for gemologists, scholars, craftspeople and
jewelry historians.
Exhibits
May 14, 2008–April 30, 2010
An exhibit of breathtaking jewelry, gems and minerals that brings to
life the Institute’s groundbreaking role in gemological education and
research.
Collections
Gems and Minerals
This collection comprises exceptional examples of gems and minerals
from all significant global localities.
The Jewelry Collection
Historical and contemporary jewelry depict classic workmanship and
signature elements related to specific styles and periods.
The Historical Collection
This sophisticated collection is dedicated to jewelry and objets
d’art from earlier periods and cultures, and gemstones with known
provenance from significant localities. Building this collection is the
Museum’s current focus.
The Museum's prized permanent collection includes
approximately 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, works on paper, and
decorative arts objects (furnishings and accessories). Particular
strengths lie in 300 years of American decorative arts objects, early 20th
century European art, California Modernism and contemporary art of
California.
NEW ADDITION GRACES LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART SCULPTURE
GARDEN
The Long Beach Museum of Art recently installed an untitled Norman
Hines sculpture for permanent outdoor display in the sculpture garden. The
untitled piece is part of the Museum's collection and was received as a
gift in 2000 from Dr. Seldon and Sheriden Beebe. It is an abstract white
marble sculpture approximately 24" tall by 18" deep by 46" wide. The
sculpture has gained several monikers including "the egg," "the taco," and
"the dumpling." Located in the Museum's Ella Reid Rose Garden on a
specially constructed base, the 1,000 pound sculpture it is now on display
free of charge and is accessible Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. - 5
p.m.
One of the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collections in the
country, the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden spans more than five
acres in UCLA's campus with over 70 sculptures by artists such as Jean
Arp, Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques
Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, and David
Smith.
In 2005 the Hammer launched a new initiative to build a
collection of contemporary art. This growing collection is led by works on
paper, particularly drawings and photographs, but also includes painting,
sculpture, and media arts. The focus of the collection is on art created
in the last ten years. Particular attention is paid to works by artists
from Southern California, but the collection also represents artists
working throughout the United States and internationally. When possible,
artists are represented in depth, and works are acquired in tandem with
exhibitions at the Hammer, particularly from the Hammer Projects series.
The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection
is one of the most extensive collections of prints, drawings, paintings,
and sculpture by the nineteenth-century French satirist Honoré Daumier.
Also included are prints and drawings by many of Daumier's fellow
nineteenth-century caricaturists. This collection provides a humorous
window onto politics, culture, and day-to-day life in nineteenth-century
France.
The Fowler's
collections comprise more than 150,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological
objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures
of Africa,
Native
and Latin
America, and Asia
and the Pacific. From Yoruba beaded arts of Southern Nigeria, to
pre-Columbian ceramic vessels of Peru, to elaborate batik textiles of
Indonesia and the vibrant papier-mâché sculptures of Mexico, the Fowler's
collections offer a comprehensive resource for exhibitions and scholarship
central to the Museum's mandate.
Nick
Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth January 10, 2010 to
May 30, 2010 Experience the largest presentation of work by
Chicago-based artist and former Alvin Ailey dancer, Nick Cave, featuring
tens of his "soundsuits"—multi-layered mixed-media, wearable sculptures
named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn. As reminiscent of
African and religious ceremonial costumes as they are of haute
couture, Cave's work explores issues of ceremony, ritual, myth and
identity through a layering of concepts, highly-skilled techniques and
varied traditions, and using materials such as fabrics, beads, sequins,
old bottle caps, rusted iron, sticks, twigs, leaves, and hair. Mad,
humorous, elaborate, grotesque, glamorous and unexpected, the soundsuits
are created from scavenged ordinary materials—detritus from both nature
and culture—that Cave re-contextualizes into visionary works of art.
Make
Art/Stop AIDS is an internationally traveling exhibition debuting
at the Fowler that explores how artists around the world are responding to
HIV/AIDS and how their work raises awareness, inspires activism, and can
ultimately help end global AIDS. Featuring examples primarily from the
United States, South Africa, India and Brazil—four disparate nations whose
distinct experiences with and responses to the epidemic make insightful
studies —Make Art/Stop AIDS presents approximately sixty works
including contemporary paintings and sculptures, photographs, performance
videos, posters, animated shorts, digital media, installations and more to
record the history of the epidemic, to appreciate its enormity, and to
share information and ideas about future interventions. The exhibition
features work by Robert Gober, David Wojnarowicz, Fiona Kirkwood, Daniel
Goldstein, Jean Carlomusto, and the collective Gran Fury, among many
others.
Inscribing
Meaning brings together outstanding works of art from a range of
periods, regions, genres, and peoples in order to consider the interplay
between African art and the communicative power of graphic systems,
language, and the written word. Explore the multiple messages and
aesthetic intent of more than one hundred exceptional artworks—including
ancient Egyptian funerary arts; masks, sculpture, textiles, and adornment
from across the continent; illuminated liturgical texts; and the work of
contemporary artists Rachid Koraïchi, Ghada Amer, Berni Searle, Ike Ude,
Victor Ekpuk, Sue Williamson, Kim Berman, Yinka Shonibare, Wosene Kosrof,
and many others.
The
"All Media Show", located in Rhoda MacCallum Gallery featuring the
art from local artists in a variety of Mediums.
"Members Gallery Show" Entry Fee is $10 per piece. Commission is
15%
Bustin' Out for Cancer at Crossroads Art
Center Bustin' Out for Cancer is a charity event sponsored by
The Crossroads Art Center to be held at the March 2010 Indoor Artwalk and
Open House. Part of the proceeds from the event will benefit The Virginia
Breast Cancer Foundation (VBCF) and several other nonprofit groups
involved in Breast Cancer Awareness.
As the first phase of a complete
reinstallation of SDMA’s American galleries,
Modern Mexican Art at SDMA and from Private
Collections presents a selection of Mexican
paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture
that range in date from the late 19th to the
early 21st century. This presentation
includes examples of Realism as well as
pieces influenced by the avant-garde
movements of Cubism and Surrealism. To
highlight the depth of SDMA’s collection,
and to convey the Museum’s commitment to
preserving these fragile works on paper,
there will be two rotations: the first
focusing on the early 20th century, and the
second on the period roughly from the 1950s
to the present day. Taken together, this
selection of objects illuminates a critical
period in both the art historical narrative
of the country and the envisioning of modern
Mexican identities.
Mingei International Museum SEA CREATURES OF ARLINE FISCH| Oct 22, 2009 | May
16, 2010
Collection Source: Collection of
the Artist
In the Roger C. Cornell Rotunda Gallery and Barbara Joy Marriott
Wilcox Grand Staircase
Among the most respected designer craftsmen in her field, San Diego
artist Arline Fisch has had a long, distinguished career as a maker of
jewelry and body adornment and is recognized as an innovator in
adapting and applying fiber techniques to working in metal. Fisch is
professor of art (emerita) at San Diego State University where she
founded its program in jewelry and metalsmithing in 1961. She has
often made large-scale jewelry and adornment that occupies large
portions of the body, but this is her first major installation –
life-sized re-creations of specific jellyfish species and other
objects that suggest sea anemones and coral – more than one hundred,
fifty objects, all crocheted from color-coated copper wire.
The sea creatures were created for a site-specific installation
entitled Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep commissioned by
the Racine Art Museum, where they were grouped in six adjacent window
spaces. At Mingei International, they will float in the Cornell
Rotunda Gallery. The exhibition continues through Sunday, May 16,
2010.
In conjuction with the exhibition, The Collectors' Gallery will
feature jewelry and books by Arline Fisch.
JUNE SCHWARCZ ENAMEL VESSELS — FROM THE FORREST
L. MERRILL COLLECTION|
Oct 22, 2009 | Mar 21, 2010
Designer: Theodore Cohen Collection Source: Collection of Forrest L. Merrill
SCHWARCZ #827,
June Schwarcz, Spun copper bowl with electroformed lines, red
enamel interior, and opal, beige and white enamel exterior,
U.S.A., 1981
SCHWARCZ #2358,
June Schwarcz, Electroformed copper foil vessel, red enamel
interior, iron plated exterior, U.S.A., 2008
In the Upper Rotunda Gallery
TRANSFORMED BY FIRE is a career-spanning exhibition of ninety
objects by June Schwarcz, considered the nation’s premier enamellist.
For fifty-three years she has been fashioning exquisite objects that
are contemporary yet timeless. Along with enameling – the fusing of
colored glass to metal – June Schwarcz’s work often employs
electroplating – the process of coating a metal surface with more
metal, using a chemical bath and a current. Her distinctive forms also
arise from her frequent use of thin copper foil and mesh.
Organized and presented originally in 2008 by the Fresno Art Museum
and curated by Jacquelin Pilar under the title JUNE SCHWARCZ –
Expressionism’s Fire and the Resonant Form, Fresno Art Museum’s
Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2008, Selections from
the Forrest L. Merrill Collection, this exhibition has been adapted
for its Mingei International Museum presentation, which continues
through March 21, 2010.
This
classic 1905 Arts and Crafts style museum home was built for noted civic
leader and merchant, George W. Marston and is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places. Designed by renowned local architects William
Hebbard and Irving Gill, it sits on five acres of landscaped English and
California influenced gardens.
San Diego Art Institute (SDAI): Museum of the Living
Artist
A new exhibition of works by San Diego artists opens
every four to six weeks in this 10,000-square-foot gallery, dedicated to
the advancement of the visual arts through outreach, education, and
exhibition. Solo artist exhibitions are also featured. The David Fleet
Young Artists Gallery showcases youth art from San Diego schools. The
gallery store offers jewelry and gift items made by local artists.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco,
California
The Art of Design: Selections from the Permanent
Collections ongoing
A recently installed exhibition of 100 objects from the museum's 4000
works of architecture, graphic, and industrial design, includes work by
Verner Panton, Gaetano Pesce, Frank Gehry, and other important 20th
Century artists.
Architecture + Design
Highlights
The regional and international scope of SFMOMA's
architecture and design collection encompasses architectural models and
drawings, and numerous design objects, ranging from appliances and
furniture to textiles and posters. The department emphasizes experimental
work in a broad range of design practices and in a variety of media
including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and
digital work.
All Highlights
SFMOMA’s collection comprises more than 25,000 works of modern and
contemporary art, mirroring artistic developments occurring regionally,
nationally, and internationally, in photography, painting and sculpture,
architecture and design, and media arts.
SFMOMA's modern and contemporary art holdings
include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th and
21st centuries' most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view
features works by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Agnes
Martin, Joan Mitchell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera,
Charles Sheeler, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, among other
artists.
Matisse and Beyond - The Painting and
Sculpture Collection
Ongoing
SFMOMA's modern and contemporary art holdings
include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th and
21st centuries' most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view
features works by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Agnes
Martin, Joan Mitchell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera,
Charles Sheeler, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, among other artists.
Jan. 15 — May. 16
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design,
San Francisco, California
Jewelry Designers/Jewelry Makers: Who’s
Making It? San Francisco
Museum of Craft+Design Speaker Series
Event
Thursday, March 11,
2010, 6 – 8 PM Larkspur
Hotel Union Square, 524 Sutter Street
(near SFMC+D) Free to members / $15 for
non-members / $10 for students with
valid ID
Come hear jewelry
designers, makers, and educators share
insights and ideas about jewelry design
and production processes. What
difference does it make, if any, whether
a designer is also the maker, or if
someone else makes it?
Does the
designer’s education make a difference?
How does industrial design fit into this
mix? Participants include David Cole,
Sandra Enterline, Mike and Maaike (Mike
Simonian and Maaike Evers), and Julia
Turner. Moderated by Marilyn da Silva,
Professor and Chair of Jewelry/Metal
Arts, California College of the Arts.
Presentation followed by a visit to the
exhibition Designers on Jewelry:
Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by
Chi ha paura...?.
Location: 550 Sutter Street
(between Powell and Mason) San Francisco, CA 94102
The San Francisco Arts Commission invites artists to apply for the 2009
Bay Area Artists Registry which will be used to select artists for a range
of new public art opportunities associated with the construction of new
civic buildings, parks and playgrounds as well as transportation and
streetscape improvement projects.
Artwork budgets range from $30,000 to $200,000.
Eligibility is open to professional, practicing artists residing in the
nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. Previous public art experience is
not required and artists working in all media are encouraged to apply.
All application materials must be submitted online via CaFE. There is
no application fee to apply or to use the CaFE online application system.
To view the application, visit online, register a username and password,
navigate to “Apply to Calls” and search for “2009 BAYAREAARTISTS REGISTRY-San Francisco Arts Commission.”
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The Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most
beautiful museum, displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of
ancient and European art in an unforgettable setting overlooking the
Golden Gate Bridge.
Cartier and America December 19, 2009 — April
18, 2010
Cartier came to fame as the “King of Jewelers” during the
Belle Époque for his beautifully made diamond and platinum jewelry created
for the courts of Europe and Americans of the Gilded Age. With an extensive
variety of jewelry forms—ranging from traditional white diamond suites to
the highly colored exotic creations of the 1920s and 1930s—Cartier made its
mark with the ingenuity of its designs and its exquisite craftsmanship.
Cartier and America celebrates the imagination and creativity of Cartier in
the 20th century. The jewelry and works of art include pieces from the
private collection of Cartier.
The Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah,
California, is an art, history and anthropology museum focusing on the
lifeworks of artist Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937) and her
ethnologist husband, Dr. John W. Hudson (1857-1936). Changing
interdisciplinary exhibitions and public programs feature Western
American art, California Indian cultures, histories of California's
diverse North Coast region, and the work of contemporary regional
artists.
American Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative
Arts Ongoing, third floor
The Yale University Art
Gallery’s collection of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts
has a long history, spanning nearly two and a half centuries. A
comprehensive selection of highlights is on view, ranging from one of the
earliest American paintings, the 1670 portrait of John Davenport, the
first minister to the New Haven Colony, through mid-twentieth-century
masterpieces by artists such as Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton.
Outstanding examples of furniture, turned wood, glass, pewter and other
metals, ceramics, and textiles are also on display.
Wolfsonian-Florida International
University: collection contains artifacts
primarily of North American and European origin, dating from 1885–1945. It
comprises a variety of media: furniture; industrial-design objects; glass,
ceramics, and metalwork; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on
paper; paintings; textiles; and metals. The nations most comprehensively
represented are the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, and Russia/Soviet Union. The objects are interpreted to
explore key FEATURED OBJECTS from Art and Design in the
Modern Age:
European travel kindled a passion for art and collecting in John and
Mable Ringling. In the 1920s, John Ringling became a regular at the
New York and London auctions. He purchased important works by Titian,
Veronese, Rubens, Hals, and Velazquez. Ringling also acquired important
decorative arts and a collection of Cypriot, Greek and Roman antiquities
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 1925, Ringling commissioned the New York architect John Phillips to
design a building befitting of his impressive art collection, a museum
that would take its inspiration from the Renaissance and Baroque palaces
and museums of Italy. Construction began in 1928, and in
October 1931, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art was officially
dedicated and opened to the public.
Today, the Museum of Art displays European, American, and Asian works
of art in its permanent collection galleries. The collection of
Old Master paintings, highlighted by the Baroque period of the 17th
century, is among the finest in the country.
The Museum’s collection continues to grow. In 2002, the
Koger Collection of Chinese ceramics, which spans over four millennia of
Chinese ceramics, was donated to the Museum. In 2006, Dr. Helga
Wall-Apelt, made a combined pledge of her collection of Chinese jades,
stone sculptures, and bronzes, along with generous funding to support the
future Asian Galleries to be named in her honor. With the opening of
the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing in 2007, an additional 30,000
square feet of exhibition space was added to the Museum. The
Ringling Museum also collects modern and contemporary art, and presents
temporary exhibitions from its own collections and traveling collections
in the Searing Wing.
In addition to works by Tiffany, the collection includes
leaded-glass windows by William Morris, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd
Wright, John LaFarge and Arthur Nash. The Museum's jewelry and silver
collections feature pieces by Emile Gallé, Rene Lalique and Carl Faberge.
Gallé and Louis Majorelle are represented In the furniture collection,
along with Tiffany and Gustav Stickley.
TiffanyJewelery,Enamels, andMetalworksGallery
SECRETS OF TIFFANY GLASSMAKING Ongoing: Tiffany and his studio staff of chemists, designers, and
glass technicians possessed extraordinary ability in controlling and
exploiting the properties of molten sand for the sake of art. This
teaching exhibit on the glass techniques employed at Tiffany Studios will
explain everything from the basic ingredients used in making glass to the
design processes used to create the famed leaded-glass windows and lamps.
The exhibit will show some of the various tools used in glassmaking as
well as window fragments, glass fragments, preliminary drawings and a
model for a window.
The Ring Show:
Putting the Band Back Together Fahm Hall, SCAD Juried by Jamie Bennett, Jim Cotter and Ashley
Callahan Details to be announced.
Curated Exhibitions
Art/Industry Curated by Donald Friedlich Pinnacle
Gallery, SCAD Many American studio artists are utilizing
manufacturing methods and technology such as laser cutting, photo-chemical
machining and electroforming to create both one of a kind and production
objects that blur the line between the worlds of craft and design. The
work showcased in this exhibition will explore the dichotomy of objects
created using collaborative processes between the hand and the machine.
The Ring Show: Then
& Now Curated
by Robert Jackson and Mary Hallam Pearse Fahm Hall, SCAD The "1st National Ring
Show" took place in 1977. Juried exhibitions were held for three
consecutive years and toured to various universities and galleries around
the country. Perhaps due to the nature of the exhibition itself, the
selected rings explored format, concept and material value. It opened many
doors for the use of alternative materials. Format ventured from the
traditional "wearable" ring and expanded the parameters with entries that
explored the ring format from the symbolic to the ring kit. Today, these
approaches, while perhaps more sophisticated, are very much a part of the
contemporary dialog.
Wedding
Rituals Curated by Komelia
Okim Location TBA Features jewelry, table
wear and objects that are inspired by the ceremonies of engagement, the
honeymoon, rehearsal dinners and matrimony. The show will examine
ritual and object use in a society in which western and eastern ceremonies
have begun to merge.
Animals in Bronze: The Michael and Mary Erlanger Collection of
Animalier Bronzes from the Georgia Museum of Art Animalier
bronzes, which depict both wild and domesticated animals, gained a wide
audience in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France, England, and
the United States. Animals in Bronze represents the full range of styles
and many of the finest artists of this genre. Notable among the works in
this exhibition are several by Antoine-Louis Barye and Rembrandt Bugatti's
Brahma Bull. Barye was one of the earliest and most famous artists of the
animalier school. His works often depict animals in violent conflict and
were inspired by his mentor, the noted Romantic painter Antoine-Jean Gros.
Bugatti's works, with their rejection of "unnecessary" detail, appear to
have been hastily executed, heightening their impressionistic feel. Also
in this collection are sculptures by Romantic painter Rose Bonheur and her
brother Isidore-Jules Bonheur, as well as works by American artists
Herbert Haseltine and Charles Marion Russell. This collection is a
gift from Michael and May Erlanger to the Georgia Museum of Art. This
exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by
curator Eleanora Luciano.
The Contemporary
Museum, Honolulu, is the only museum in the state of Hawai‘i devoted
exclusively to contemporary art. TCM provides an accessible forum for
provocative, dynamic forms of visual art, offering interaction with art
and artists in a unique Island environment.
The
Contemporary Museum has a growing collection of works in all
media spanning 1940 to the present. Among artists represented are
Vito Acconci, Josef Albers, Robert Arneson, Jennifer Bartlett, Deborah
Butterfield, Enrique Chagoya, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, William
Kentridge, Sol Lewitt, Robert Motherwell, Vik Muniz, Louise Nevelson,
Kenneth Price, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Frank Stella, Masami Teraoka,
Mark Tobey, Richard Tuttle, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman, and
Peter Voulkos.
View Calder’s mobiles, stabiles, drawings, and paintings in
this small exhibition presented annually at the MCA. These
works, drawn primarily from the Leonard and Ruth Horwich
Family Loan and dating from 1927 to 1968, demonstrate the
artist’s development throughout his 50-year career. Calder
combined colorful shapes taken from nature, such as
snowflakes, birds, and animals, with an interest in
mechanics to create whimsical mobiles that move with air
currents. His explorations of both geometric and organic
shapes have distinguished him as an innovator of art that
responds to its physical environment. Though Calder began
his career as an artist focused on drawing and painting, he
is best known for creating stabiles, mobiles, and
large-scale sculptures of natural forms simplified into
dynamic, often whimsical creatures.
This exhibition
is organized by Pamela Alper Associate Curator Julie
Rodrigues Widholm.
Steel: Cradle Fracture is based on elements of fractal geometry found
in nature using concentric triangles and implies a place of strength,
protection and sanctuary.
Sculptural Gardens Masterworks of modern and contemporary sculpture
dramatically emerge in the BMA’s Sculpture Gardens, a verdant landscape of
art and horticulture that welcomes visitors throughout the year. Nestled
on nearly three acres in the heart of the city, the two terraced gardens
are home to 34 sculptures ranging from Auguste Rodin’s striding Balzac
(1892) to Alexander Calder’s soaring red 100 Yard Dash
(1969), and provide a 100-year survey of sculpture from the figural to the
abstract.
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore Maryland is internationally
renowned for its collection of art. The collection presents an
overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century
Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and
Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art
Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.
HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — ONGOING
EXHIBIT:Romancing the Stone: The Many Facets
of Tourmaline exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History at
Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA. Exhibit displays
Harvard's extensive collection of tourmalines dating back to 1892.
Highlights the versatile nature of this mineral family and showcases
exquisite examples of tourmaline, both in rough and in fine jewelry.
Extended indefinitely due to popular demand. For more information, contact
the museum at 617-495-3045, fax 617-496-8206, e-mail hmnh@oeb.harvard.eduor
visit http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection:
The MFA celebrates the recent gift of more than forty works by Ed
Rossbach in "Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection." One
of the pioneers in the field of American fiber arts, Ed Rossbach created
works in almost every known textile technique during his five-decade-long
career. His exuberant approach to making art, free from expectations and
rules, came from studying historic textile techniques while a young
professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Experimenting with
labor-intensive techniques such as Andean discontinuous warp weaving,
Native American coiled basketry, European lace, and Indonesian ikat,
Rossbach reinterpreted these methods in his own unique two-dimensional and
three-dimensional works. This exhibition features about thirty-five
Rossbach works from the recent gift of Daphne Farago, displayed alongside
examples from the MFA's historic textile collection to illustrate the
diverse sources of inspiration for his innovative fiber work.
Mariko Kusumoto: Unfolding Stories
May 22 — August 8, 2010
Japanese artist
Mariko Kusumoto is known for her extraordinary and intricate metal
sculptures of music boxes, clocks and other constructions, with multiple
doors, compartments, drawers and moving parts. Fuller Craft Museum
will be the setting for her meticulously hand-crafted pieces using a variety
of metalsmithing techniques – etching, enameling and casting. With
each box sculpture, she presents a magical world of astounding detail and
artistry.
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the
Boundaries of Craft May 29, 2010 — February 6, 2011
Curated by Fo Wilson, The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the
Boundaries of Craft steps beyond the
boundaries that currently exist among technology, art, and craft. The
artists in this exhibition use new technologies in tandem with traditional
craft materials – clay, glass, wood, metal and fiber – to forge new artistic
directions.
Digital video and audio, computerized design, and
other technologies are viewed as new materials to be exploited, manipulated
and co-opted to enrich artistic expression. The
New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Craft examines this phenomenon and its impact on the world
of contemporary craft.
HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — ONGOING EXHIBIT:Romancing the Stone: The Many Facets of Tourmaline exhibit at the
Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard University, 26 Oxford St.,
Cambridge, MA. Exhibit displays Harvard's extensive collection of
tourmalines dating back to 1892. Highlights the versatile nature of this
mineral family and showcases exquisite examples of tourmaline, both in
rough and in fine jewelry. Extended indefinitely due to popular demand.
For more information, contact the museum at 617-495-3045, fax
617-496-8206, e-mail hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu or visit http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
Tuesday, October 13, 2009—Saturday, July 17, 2010 Wells Fargo Center
and MIA Modernist Design Galleries Free Exhibitio
Ancient Art:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is fortunate to have a small but
focused collection of ancient art, comprising works from several
civilizations in the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea, from about
20,000 B.C. to the fifth century A.D. These civilizations were united by
trade networks that fostered cultural exchanges.
The collection from the ancient Near East countries of Luristan,
Sumeria, and Persia include finely crafted domestic objects, glass, and
bronzes. The art of dynastic Egypt, unwaveringly directed towards the
attainment of the afterlife, is represented by an intact mummy, the false
door to a tomb, amulets, and religious burial objects.
The foundations of Western culture are found in "classical" art, the
integration of Greek and Roman artistic principles that evolved
continuously from the eighth century B.C. to the fifth century A.D. This
aesthetic is exemplified by the marble sculpture, Doryphoros, one
of the finest existing Roman copies of the original Greek sculpture made
in 440 B.C. The Ancient Art Galleries include portrait busts, painted
Attic vases, pavement mosaics, and exquisite small objects, presenting an
overview of ancient art, the result of numerous bequests and purchases
from the 1930s to the present day. The collection is constantly enriched
by new acquisitions made possible through the generosity of Ruth and Bruce
Dayton and other donors.
Norwest Modernism Collection:
An important recent gift is the Norwest Modernism Collection,
comprising nearly 500 works in all media documenting salient components of
six modernist movements, from Arts and Crafts (1880) through Art Deco
(1950). Since its donation in 1998, the collection has supplied works in a
series of exhibitions at the museum, at the Wells Fargo Center in downtown
Minneapolis, and on the award-winning Modernism Web site.
Exhibitions of contemporary studio ceramics, glass, and wood are now
staples. This initiative is thanks to generous donors such as Robyn and
John Horn, who recently gave a substantial collection of turned wood, and
Mrs. Eunice Butler, who has supported the acquisition of works by
contemporary American ceramists. Sculpture from the Middle Ages to 1900
includes world-class works by Hiram Powers, Auguste Rodin, and a recent
attribution to Gianlorenzo Bernini. Judaica and arms and armor also fall
under the purview of the department, with recent gifts of religious
metalwork from Harold and Mickey Smith and a sixteenth-century Italian
half suit of armor acquired in 2001 with a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Wayne H.
MacFarlane
The department houses the MIA's collection of sculpture created after
1900, which includes masterworks by Constantin Brancusi, Amedeo
Modigliani, Henri Matisse, and Henry Moore. Recent acquisitions in this
area include Raymond Duchamp-Villon's "Head of Baudelaire" of 1911, and
Alberto Giacometti's "Diego" of 1962.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is fortunate to have a small but
focused collection of ancient art, comprising works from several
civilizations in the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea, from about
20,000 B.C. to the fifth century A.D. These civilizations were united by
trade networks that fostered cultural exchanges.
Our Oceanic
collection contains world-class pieces, such as the Maori Poutokomanawa
(Post Figure) created in the 1840s, the three fabulous Malagan figures, an
early Papuan Gope Board, and the Bis Pole, a centerpiece of the
gallery.
Beyond the Maker’s Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver
in the Cahn Collection
Mary Agnes and Al McQuinn Silver Gallery 350 Free
Exhibition
"Beyond the Maker’s Mark" celebrates the extraordinary
work of London’s leading eighteenth-century silversmith, Paul de Lamerie
(1688-1751). Through the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Cahn—which includes some of the most important pieces of de Lamerie silver
in private hands—the exhibition explores several aspects of de Lamerie’s
career, revealing the evolution of his style and the complex organization
of his enterprise.
The exhibition, organized by the Memphis Brooks
Museum of Art, features nearly one hundred individual examples of Rococo
English silver by de Lamerie and his contemporaries, such as the superb
Maynard Dish (1736) and the extraordinary Tureen in the Shape of a Green
Turtle (1750). This venue will include several Paul de Lamerie pieces from
the MIA collection, including the magnificent Wine Cistern (1719-20).
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Collection: The core of the Museum is the permanent
collection comprised of abstract paintings, drawings, prints, works in clay
and sculpture created since the mid-20th century. The permanent collection
also includes those significant precursors that are a vital link to refining
the scope of the collection and to enhancing the Museum's educational
importance. The Museum permanent collection was built through gifts and
selected purchases. The study collection is compromised of those examples
valued as instructional resources. The director/curator is responsible for
routine maintenance of the collection. Conservation or restoration of
collection works is contracted to and performed by conservation specialists.
One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380 Telephone
314.721.0072
The exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany
was inspired by the Saint Louis Art Museum’s efforts to build a collection
of objects representing the creative output of one of America’s leading
designers. It features 30 extraordinary examples of glass, pottery,
lighting, bronzes, silver, and jewelry from the collection of the Saint
Louis Art Museum and several private St. Louis collectors.
The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading
comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of
exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of
notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese
bronzes, and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th
centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art.
The Museum's collection of Modern art, which covers more than 150 years
of European painting and sculpture, is one of the largest and most
distinguished components of its holdings. Among the highlights from the
19th century are paintings by Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour,
Edouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne as well as Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist masterworks by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin,
and Vincent van Gogh.
The Museum's 20th century galleries feature a world-renowned collection
of German Expressionist paintings assembled by the late St. Louis
collector Morton D. May. Artists included in this group include Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and Max Beckmann. Also in
the Modern collection are signature works by Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian,
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henry Moore, as well as notable
paintings by Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Amadeo Modigliani.
One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380 Telephone
314.721.0072 http://www.slam.org/
January 15-February 28, 2010 Delmar Loop
Gallery 6640 Delmar Blvd
An invitational exhibition of
innovative teapots made of clay, metal, glass and fiber. The teapot
shape has been investigated by artists for centuries, challenging both
the functional and non-functional concept of the form. Over 50 artists
have been invited to continue this exploration in Hot Tea, the 12th
Biennial exhibit celebrating the teapot and its various artistic
configurations.
Opening Concurrently in the Charak Gallery: High School Teapot
Exhibition
Setting the Mood: The Artful Table [Delmar
Loop] May 21-July 11, 2010 Bruce
Hoffman, juror Juried exhibition of functional and non-functional
works created for the dinner table in all craft media, fiber, metals,
clay, wood and glass. ENTRY DEADLINE MARCH 1. For all submissions
Download prospectus and entry form>>
Thursday, January 28, 6:30-9pm
LUXurious: A Jewelry Trunk Show Free and open to the public Purchase some of the finest jewelry for
yourself or your special someone for Valentine's Day. Participating artists
include: Lynn Bowes, Sara Bucy, Donna Burdic, Jen Carlson, Stephanie
Collins, Mona Jenkins, Lonna Keller, Sydney Lynch, Natasha Overholtzer,
April Stevenson, and Jette Vogt.
February 20, 2010 - May 09, 2010 Hawkin's Contemporary
Gallery
Bryan Christiansen, La-Z- Boy, 2008. Leather upholstery from
discarded furniture. Courtesy of the artist.
Bryan Christiansen's life-sized contemporary sculptures challenge
conventional notions about rural life, home, the rituals of the hunting
tradition, and the innocence of childhood. Using discarded household
furniture that he finds in neglected urban areas, Christiansen crafts
assemblages that stand in for the trophies, antler mounts, and pelts so
often prized by hunters.
Raised in a small log cabin in the Black
Hills of South Dakota, Christiansen experienced all the requisite activities
of a rural childhood: absorbing nature, communing with wildlife, and
learning to hunt. But at the same time, he also grappled with the
complicated and tumultuous happenings of his family’s domestic life. When
Christiansen arrived as a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, he
turned to art as a way of wrestling with the conflicting realities of his
past.
Christiansen’s sculptures recall the work of 1950s assemblage
artists Bruce Conner and Ed Kienholz, who used gritty discarded objects to
probe such issues as the passage of time, death, and decay. Unlike the work
of these artists, however, Christiansen’s reconstructions are exquisitely
crafted, featuring exposed hand-stitchery and floral fabrics that have more
to do with making sense of life than they do with dwelling on death. As
trophies, they represent Christiansen’s own triumph of the present over the
past and his strength to confront some of life’s most challenging
contradictions. http://www.nevadaart.org/
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New Hampshire
Hanover
Dartmouth College Hood
Museum of Art
Highlights from the Hood Museum of
Art
September 26, 2009, through
March 15, 2010
The third in a series of comprehensive exhibitions and
catalogues showcasing
the permanent collection, this exhibition surveys the breadth and depth of
the permanent collection and highlights key works from the holdings, only a
tiny fraction of which are on view in the museum's galleries at any one
time. Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth
focuses on post-1945 painting, sculpture, works on paper, new media, and
photography, and includes works by Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Alice Neel,
Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, El Anatsui, Juan Munoz, Alison Saar, Amir
Nour, Bob Haozous, Richard Serra, and Bill Viola, among others.
The African Art
Galleries African gallery showcases works from important
art-producing cultures, including the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Asante of
Ghana. Among the highlights are a towering Epa masquerade headdress by the
renowned Yoruba sculptor Bamboye and a rare Tsogo door from Gabon. A
stunning array of jewelry features ivory adornments from the Congo, silver
pendants from Niger, beadwork from South Africa and an exceptional suite
of gold jewelry from Zanzibar. The gallery also includes select examples
from its important collection of African textiles, which has gained
national recognition for its fine quality and breadth of
representation.
Jan. 31 - Feb. 28, 2010 ONCE AROUND the ARTS celebrating BlACK
HISTORY MONTH
MUSEUM HOURS- SAT & SUN 1-5 PM ADMISSION
IS FREE
The goal of the Belskie Museum of Art and Science is first
and foremost, the preservation and display of the work of Abram Belskie
and to promote his reputation as a major sculptor, medal artist and
medical illustrator of the twentieth century.
Gallery Hours: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, M-F Call
201.767.7160 for evening and Saturday hours
The Art School at Old Church houses two professionally-run art
galleries. The Mikhail Zakin Gallery presents 8-10 exhibitions annually.
The gallery focuses on exhibiting contemporary work in a variety of
disciplines from emerging and established regional artists. The Café
Gallery showcases work from students and faculty of the Art School at
Old Church. Exhibitions rotate throughout the year.
The galleries are free and open to the public. Both galleries are
wheelchair accessible.
Grounds For Sculpture is a 35-acre public
sculpture park dedicated to promoting an understanding of and appreciation
for contemporary sculpture for all people.
Two group shows are on display indoors:
Enclosures features four artists who work in different materials (steel,
wood, and stone) to build stylistically similar large sculptural forms
through the use of multiple components; and Outstanding Student
Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards presents work by college and
university-level student artists from the annual award competition
organized by the International Sculpture Center.
The curatorial
focus of Grounds For Sculpture is to present the work of both established
and emerging sculptors. Emerging sculptors are defined as artists at the
beginning of their careers as well as artists whose work has contributed
to the field of contemporary sculpture significantly without accompanying
recognition. The outdoor exhibition grows by approximately 15 sculptures
annually. New additions outdoors are selected to augment indoor
exhibitions, to add new artists to the sculpture park, and to work in
conjunction with the landscaped environment.
Most of the sculptures on exhibit
outdoors are displayed courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc., a
charitable foundation that collects works of art by American and
international artists. The Foundation supports Grounds For Sculpture
by lending works for exhibit in the park. Sculptures in a variety of
styles and media, including bronze, steel, stone, wood, concrete and mixed
media are represented.
Each season, Grounds For Sculpture presents new additions to the outdoor
permanent collection as well as a group or one-person exhibition indoors.
In Dialogue with Steel, and exhibition of Albert Paley's
work, one might find it hard to believe that he began his artistic career as
a jeweler. Paley was one of the major goldsmiths of the studio art
movement in America. Today, he is best known for his monumental
sculpture. Yet looking closely at these elaborate, impressive, and
often site-specific installations, one sees the continuum of Paley's
creativity; challenging metal of all types is his foundation. The
fluidity of molten metal is evident in the ribbons and decorative patterns
so prevalent and identifiable in his designs. Yet the hardness of
steel is also apparent in the starkness of many of his larger abstract
works, softened simply by the prominence of bright color and its ability to
evoke strong emotions.
In Reflections on Tradition, Jacobo de la Serna's
micaceous pots are exquisite dichotomies. While some expand the
boundaries of this delicate clay in execution and concept, they remain
fragile and delicate. His masterful technical ability enhances
traditional style and contemporary innovative designs. The work is
sensitive and sensual, refined and magical and it reveals the insightful
artistry of the man himself.
Grounds For Sculpture is also pleased to present the 2010
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards,
which represents the ninth consecutive year of an ongoing partnership with
the International Sculpture Center. In order to support, encourage,
and recognize the work of young sculptors, the International Sculpture
Center presents this award competition each year to its member colleges and
universities. This year 11 Winners and 10 Honorable Mentions were
selected from 441 nominees. The distinguished jury included three
jurors: David McFadden, Curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York,
NY; Willie Cole, a New Jersey sculptor; and Jeanne Jaffe, Professor and
Chair of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
The Winter Season Exhibition 2010 (January 24 -
April 18, 2010) features the annual Focus on Sculpture 2010 - a juried exhibition
of amateur photographers on display in the Education Gallery. This
year's distinguished juror, Andrea Baldeck, is a black and white fine-art
photographer. Also exhibiting in the Domestic Arts Building is glass
artist
Flo Perkins, well known for her representations of
every day objects in glass. Her originality, sensibility, and
imagination have led to her to become a well respected artist and innovator
in teh field of hot glass.
Through March 21, 2010 This exhibition
is the first to look closely at this dynamic and continually
evolving art form.
Make
Me Something Beautiful 2010 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts June 16, 2010 through August
9, 2010
For its 2010 New Jersey Arts
Annual: Crafts exhibition the Newark Museum has chosen the theme: MAKE
ME SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL. The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of
the decorative arts collection at the Newark Museum, established to promote
beauty in industrial design and handcraft for the benefit of the people of
New Jersey. In 1910 the Museum organized an exhibition entitled
Modern American Pottery, and from that exhibition
came the works that were the foundation of the collection— examples of
American art pottery that were the forerunners of today's studio ceramics.
The Newark Museum's founding director, John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), saw the
Museum's exhibitions as a means to promote both handcraft and good design,
thus improving the lives of its visitors by making art accessible.
Ever since that first exhibition, the Museum has collected contemporary
handmade objects in wood, metal, fiber, ceramics and glass that represent
the concept of beauty in all media.
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts Crafts Movement
September 15, 2010 through January 2011
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
offers the first comprehensive examination of the life and work of the
recognized patriarch of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav
Stickley. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue explores Stickley
as a business leader and design proselytizer, whose body of work included
furnishings, architectural and interior designs, and related imagery that
became synonymous with the movement, which was at its height between
approximately 1880 and 1910. This exhibition includes more than 100
works produced by Stickley’s designers and workshops: furniture, metalwork
and lamps, textiles, and numerous publications and letters, drawings, and
related designs. Also featured in the exhibition is a re-creation of
Stickley’s seminal model dining room from his 1903 Syracuse Arts and Crafts
exhibition.
Native
Couture December
16, 2007 through February 21, 2010
Baubles and bangles of
jewelry-1880 to the present-and fashions
influenced by Native American (like the
Zuni bracelet ca. 1960), Hispanic and
Western frontier traditions
Santa Fe style represents a state of mind held by those
who live in this town either as full-time or part-time residents. Santa Fe
style influenced fashion and design worldwide. It is not just jewelry and
clothing but a feeling inside, a sense of place and that total belief in
the Navajo saying, “Walk in beauty.”
The spirit of Santa Fe style has inspired an exhibit with
the same name at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Native Couture
opens December 16, 2007 and runs through September 1, 2008. Drawing from
the museum’s incomparable collections, this exhibition showcases both old
and new jewelry – 1880 to the present. The exhibition will explore the
history of Santa Fe style and what it incorporates.
The focus of Native Couture revolves around the Dicky
Pfaelzer Jewelry Collection donated to the museum by her children in 2005.
Dicky, a style-setter, was known throughout town for creating a statement
with her beautiful jewelry and exquisite clothing and a fixture on the
Santa Fe gallery scene for more than eighteen years. (She also drove a
station wagon painted with lizards and other Southwest iconography)
Permanent
Exhibitions & Tours In addition to changing exhibitions,
there are two permanent exhibitions: Family and Faith in the Hispanic
Heritage Wing; and Multiple Visions: A Common Bond in the Girard Wing.
Family and Faith/Familia y Fe is an
award-winning exhibition of northern New Mexico Hispanic material culture
and art spanning four centuries including Santos, furniture, tinwork,
straw applique textiles and jewelry.
Multiple Visions: A Common Bond is a richly
varied exhibition of folk art and miniatures from more than one hundred
countries designed by the collector, Alexander Girard.
Walk-In Docent led tours are offered at 10:15
a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; Thursday through Sundays,
tours are at 10:15 a.m. and 1:00 and 3 p.m. There is no charge for
educational groups attending the Museum with their instructor and
chaperones. To arrange a field trip or group Docent-led tour, call
Cynthia Martinez at 476-1140.
Special Exhibitions Hall,
Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Body Parts features thirty-five representations of
individual body parts from the Brooklyn Museum’s ancient Egyptian
collection, many of which are displayed for the first time. This
exhibition uses fragments of sculptures and objects created as
distinct elements to illuminate the very realistic depiction of
individual body parts in canonical Egyptian sculpture. Ancient
Egyptian artists carefully portrayed each part of the human body,
respecting the significance of every detail. When viewed individually,
these sculptures and fragments reveal ancient notions of the body, as
well as details of workmanship, frequently unnoticed in more complete
sculptures.
May 14, 2008–March 14, 2010
4th Floor This exhibition honors the gift of twenty-one pieces of
silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist
jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982), primarily from Charles Russell,
Smith’s companion and heir.
Masterpieces of French Art Deco Opened August 4, 2009 The
Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing,
Modern Art, 1st floor
French Art Deco is one of the great
strengths of the Metropolitan’s modern design collection. The Museum
has been actively collecting in this area since the 1920s, when pieces
were acquired directly from their designers in Paris. This
presentation in The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery features
many of the collection’s most important works, some of which have not
been shown for generations.
The installation will include furniture by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann,
Louis Süe and André Mare, Armand-Albert Rateau, and Pierre Legrain;
works in glass by René Jules Lalique, Maurice Marinot, and Henri
Navarre; ceramics by Émile Lenoble and Emile Decoeur; metalwork by
Jean Puiforcat and Edgar Brandt; textiles by Paul Poiret; jewelry by
Georges Fouquet; lacquer work by Jean Dunand; and the magnificent set
of reverse-painted and gilded glass panels designed by Jean Dupas for
the first-class salon of the ocean liner Normandie.
Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the
Present June 23, 2009–June 23, 2011 LAW Wing, Design and
Architecture Gallery
This installation of highlights from
the Museum’s modern and contemporary design collection from 1900 to
the present features forty-six objects, including Charles Rennie
Mackintosh’s hand-crafted oak, tile, and glass washstand (1904);
Marcel Breuer’s iconic modernist "Wassily" chair (1927); a 1985
Formica "Ivory" table by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass; and
architect Zaha Hadid’s 2006 "Gyre" lounge chair, made of polyester
resin and lacquer. Also presented are metalwork, ceramics, glass,
jewelry, drawings, and posters.
Vienna Circa 1780: An
Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered April 13, 2010–November 7,
2010 Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery, European Sculpture and
Decorative Arts, 1st floor
Following the acquisition in 2002 of
two Viennese silver wine coolers from the Sachsen-Teschen Service,
most of the set’s surviving parts were discovered in a French private
collection. This superb ensemble was last displayed at the beginning
of the twentieth-century. Wine coolers, tureens, cloches, sauceboats,
candelabra, candlesticks, dozens of plates, porcelain-mounted cutlery,
and other kinds of tableware totaling over 350 items, represent the
splendor of princely dining during the ancien régime. It was made for
Duke Albert Casimir of Sachsen-Teschen (1738-1822), and his consort,
Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1742-1798) by the Imperial
court goldsmith Ignaz Josef Würth. The Sachsen-Teschen Silver Service,
an embodiment of Viennese neo-classicism, will be shown in the context
of contemporary silver from other countries. Accompanied by a
catalogue to be published by the MMA.
MAD is fortunate to
possess a rich assemblage of works in metal by an international roster of
artists. Technically diverse, the collection represents a variety of
approaches to form, whether it is a hand-raised teapot by Danish-trained
artist John Prip, electroformed decanters by Chunghi Choo, or a
constructed cabinet by Jim Rose. Sculptural metalwork, far removed from
its functional origins and using woven or coiled methods, is found in the
works of Jenny Edlund and Jin-Sook So. For other artists like Myra
Mimlitsch-Gray, sculpture has become a means of commentary and humor, as
seen in her traditionally-raised and perpetually-melting teapot. Jewelry
has been a fast-growing aspect of the permanent collection as well. The
Museum’s collection of early modernist jewelry by Margaret de Patta and
Betty Cooke are perennial favorites, while the brilliant woven examples by
Mary Lee Hu never fail to amaze.
Jewelry
Highlights
The Museum of Arts and
Design's jewelry collection began soon after the Museum was founded in
1956, documenting the development of studio jewelry from its origins in
the post-World War II era to the present day. Drawing from a collection of
nearly 500 jewelry pieces, these selected highlights demonstrate the
development and diversity of the art of jewelry, ranging from the
pioneering work of early American Studio Jewelers, such as Sam Kramer and
Arthur Smith, to the groundbreaking and nontraditional methods of
contemporary artists like Rebecca
Strzelec.
Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the
Table, 1500–2005
Rococo: The Continuing Curve is
organized by Sarah Coffin, head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts
department; Gail Davidson, head of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic
Design department; Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design; and guest
curator Penelope Hunter-Stiebel. This is the first museum survey of rococo
and its ongoing resurgence, tracing the design movement’s birth, rebirth
and transformation across centuries and continents. The exhibition will
explore these regional and chronological modifications, and study the
social, political and economic influences affecting the migration and
assimilation of rococo style.
Linda MacNeil is considered one of Americaís
foremost jewelry artists, a reputation built through her emphasis on
imagination and technical virtuosity in creating beautiful and comfortable
designs. Whereas bold geometry characterizes her Neck Collars and
Elements, Lucent Lines, and Mesh Necklaces, stylized
organicism defines her newest series of Egyptian-inspired Floral
Necklaces. A fusion of glass and gold, MacNeilís sculptural jewelry
possesses and exudes strength. Featuring 50 works, this retrospective
exhibition examines Linda MacNeilís artistic career.
Metalwork in the Permanent Collection of the
Gregg Museum
As sculpture, jewelry, and functional objects,
metal is the newest area of interest in the University’s collection.
Recently the Gregg has presented work by prominent jeweler and designer
Mary Ann Scherr and her daughter Sydney, while its exhibition Samuel
Yellin: A Legacy in Iron presented the lifework of America’s most
significant metalworker. In 2003, the Gregg hosted a lifelong
retrospective exhibition by renowned North Carolina artist and East
Carolina University professor Robert Ebendorf. In 2004, the Gregg again
featured metalwork with the exhibitions Rings and Elizabeth Brim: Steel
Magnolia.Through both gift and purchase, the Gregg seeks to acquire more
prime examples of historic silver, brass, bronze and iron objects, as well
as contemporary metal sculpture and jewelry in order to fulfill the Metals
Collection’s goals.
Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau
Jewelry October 24, 2009 – January 25, 2010 The organic
beauty of jewelry from the Art Nouveau movement shines in this intimate
exhibition. Selected from the finest American private collection,
Imperishable Beauty features over one hundred works from France,
Germany, Austria and the United States by major art nouveau designers and
jewelers, including René Lalique, Henri Vever, Philippe Wolfers and
Tiffany & Co. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Founded in 1963, Ohio Designer
Craftsmen is a not-for-profit organization with over 2100 members. Our
membership includes craft artists, educators, students, and others who
appreciate fine craft. Our mission is to promote the fine crafts aesthetic
by establishing a standard of excellence, encouraging creative growth,
providing professional support to craft artists, and building public
awareness, appreciation and collection of fine craft. In support of this
mission, Ohio Designer Craftsmen offers a wide range of exhibitions,
publications, programs and artist services.
Exhibitions are presented at the
Ohio Craft Museum, founded by Ohio Designer Craftsmen in 1993. Located in
Columbus, it is the only museum in the Midwest exclusively devoted to
exhibiting and collecting fine craft. Five or six exhibitions of
contemporary craft by artists from Ohio and across the United States are
presented each year. Public programs include artist lectures, hands-on
workshops for children and adults, and a summer craft day camp for children
ages 6 - 12.
Ohio Designer
Craftsmen also provides assistance to ODC's member artists.
Membership benefits include:
• Publications • Technical and
professional workshops • Marketing assistance & referral service •
Opportunities to apply to ODC craft fairs and members' exhibition at the
Ohio Craft Museum. •Workshop and
fair scholarships and work/study opportunities
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Toledo
The Toledo Museum of Art
A collection of more
than 30,000 works of art ranks among the finest in the United States. In
our more than 35 galleries, Sculpture Garden, and new Glass Pavilion,
discover important, popular, and outstanding works of art, including
paintings and sculptures by Bearden, Cézanne, Calder, Close, Cole, Degas,
van Gogh, El Greco, Holbein, Kiefer, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso,
Rembrandt, Rubens, and Turner; masterworks from antiquity and Asia;
decorative arts; and highlights from our renowned glass
collection.
The Museum’s collection also includes works in glass, metal, fiber and
wood. With an emphasis on modest works – many created at the beginning of
artists’ careers – the collection reflects the Museum’s role in the
Northwest’s rich craft heritage.
The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft is the premier showcase for
fine craft in the Pacific Northwest. Located in The Pearl, Portland’s
central cultural district, The Gallery represents artists working in
ceramics, glass, wood, metal, fiber and mixed media. Here you’ll find the
perfect handmade gift or an exquisite piece to add to your collection.
The Gallery represents over 100 regional and nationally noted artisans.
Offerings include jewelry and accessories, bowls and vessels, sculptural
works and functional wares. Talk with one of our staff to learn about the
artists and their creations, ask about gift registry and national and
international shipping.
Museum of Contemporary
Craft 724 Northwest Davis Street Portland, Oregon 97209
In 1973 the Allentown Art Museum purchased a
room from a Prairie style house built by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's
designs are closely related to the Arts and Crafts Movement from the early
20th Century, which emphasized traditional materials and simple designs.
This tour offers decorative arts that compliment
Recent museum acquisitions of 20th- and
21st-century hollowware, sculpture, and
jewelry celebrate Philadelphia’s rich
heritage in the field of metalwork.
Museum Celebrates Philadelphia's Extensive Metalworking
History with Exhibition of Sculpture and Jewelry
Philadelphia has a rich history of metalwork, and
owes much of its early development to the industrial welders who helped
shape the city during its settlement. The city has continued to rely on
the skills of metalsmiths, who have gradually incorporated ornate design
into functional works over the centuries. In conjunction with 800
metalsmiths arriving in Philadelphia for the 40th-annual conference of the
Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) May 20 to 23, the Museum
celebrates the city’s longstanding metalworking heritage with Wrought
& Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900 to the Present, organized by
Elisabeth Agro, the Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern
and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts. The exhibition opens May 9
and runs through January 2010 in the North Auditorium Gallery.
Showcasing more than 50 works, Wrought & Crafted highlights
the Museum’s extensive holdings of 20th- and 21st-century hollow-ware,
sculpture and jewelry, documenting the development of metalwork over the
past two centuries.
This exhibit – a collaborative effort between the GoggleWorks, Freyberger
Gallery at Penn State Berks and Freedman Gallery at Albright College – is a
collection of 52 sculptures by Steven Siegel, Red Hook, N.Y. More than six
years in creation, the sculptures consider the progression of cellular and
biomorphic growth and its cumulative changes over time if left with no
forces to influence it. Siegel´s sculptures often utilize recyclable or
natural materials and everyday objects.
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
of ArtSubject
to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century
ongoing
Flash holder
The new Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries in the 1926 Radeke Building
display masterworks of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, drawings,
photographs, costume, textiles and industrial design from 1900 to 2000, all
drawn from the Museum's permanent collection. From the work of Henri Matisse
and Frank Lloyd Wright to that of Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis and Ettore
Sottsass, the objects convey the last century's revolutionary changes in art
and design, as well as the tremendous impact of technology.
Calderwood addresses the ideas of
consumption and personal obsession with irony, humor, and color. Using a
combination of traditional metalsmithing processes such as raising and die
forming as well as industrial processes such as laser-jet cutting, her work
merges contemporary enameled imagery with traditional forms.
Tributaries: Susan Myers
April 2,
2010 - May 23, 2010
Susan Myers' work has been exhibited throughout
the United States, including the Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco
and the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. She has taught at
Penland School of Crafts and Syracuse University.
Dichotomies of Place and Object: South African Studio
Jewelry
April 2 - May 23, 2010
Curated by Lauren Kalman with help from Carine Terreblanche Dichotomies
of Place in Objects is comprised of jewelry artists from Stellenbosch South
Africa. The artists have been selected with the assistance of Carine
Terreblanche a jeweler and educator from Stellenbosch. All selected are all
affiliated with Stellenbosch University; the only school in South Africa
teaching conceptual approaches to jewelry making, either as faculty,
students, lecturers, or alumni. They have been selected to represent a
diverse cross section that reflects both highly conceptual practices, to
tongue-in-cheek kitsch, to more poetic material investigations of form.
Jewelers in Stellenbosch are trained with a high technical proficiency but
the samples also include artists working with contemporary media such as
digital video.
Iron: Twenty Ten
May 28 - August 29, 2010
With an eye toward the future of a vital art form, Iron: Twenty Ten
offers a survey of the finest contemporary blacksmithing in the United
States. Employing both traditional and innovative approaches, the selected
work demonstrates the tremendous breadth of ideas and depth of talent found
in American blacksmithing today. The work, from an exciting mix of
established and emerging artists, was selected by a jury of prominent
blacksmiths and scholars, including Anna Fariello, Tom Joyce, Richard
Quinnell and James Wallace. Taken as a whole, the exhibition offers both the
casual viewer and the seasoned metalsmith a comprehensive picture of the
state of contemporary American blacksmithing. (left, Lee Sauder's
Odalisque, bloom iron with steel base, 2007)
Master Metalsmith 2010: Michael Jerry
September 3 - October 23, 2010
Exhibits
change every ten to twelve weeks and range from jewelry and hollowware in
precious metals to sculpture and architectural ironwork. Approximately
two-thirds of the Museum’s exhibitions are organized in-house; the others
are touring, rented exhibits or borrowed collections from other
institutions and/or individuals.
The Master
Metalsmith series began in 1984 as a way for the Metal Museum to honor the
most influential metal artists of the day. In the years since its
inception it has brought the work of more than twenty internationally
acclaimed metalsmiths to Memphis for solo exhibitions. The honor of
being chosen as a Metal Museum Master Metalsmith is now highly esteemed in
the field.
Sculpture
Garden
A growing outdoor sculpture garden features work by internationally
recognized metalsmiths from the Artist Blacksmith’s Associations of North
America and Great Britain. Other outdoor sculpture has either been
donated by the makers or purchased with restricted gifts from individuals
and corporations.
The Metal Museum is funded through the generosity of members and donors
and through ArtsMemphis and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Each year the Metal Museum honors a metalsmith who has had a
significant influence in the field. This year the Metal Museum is pleased
to host Gary Griffin. This exhibition will focus on work generated while
Griffin was Resident Artist in the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s Art
and Industry Program in early 2007. Titled “The Penumbra Series,” the body
of work includes 18 ductile cast iron frames explore the moment where
molten iron is arrested within a picture plane.
National Ornamental Metal Museum 374 Metal Museum
Drive, Memphis, Tennessee 38106 Phone: 901-774-6380 or
1-877-881-2326
Classes
The Metal Museum offers various education programs
ranging from public demonstrations to middle and high school programs to
blacksmithing and casting. Metalsmithing and foundry classes are taught on
site. Classes start at beginner levels and go to advanced specialized
sessions. After students take a basic class, they are eligible to use the
Metal Museum's shop facilities (Membership at the $250 level required).
The Metal Museum also offers acid/copper etching, silver bracelet
fabrication and aluminum casting for children and participates in the
Memphis City Schools Summer Arts Program.
George Rickey's Three Red Lines Through December 2010
One of postwar America’s preeminent sculptors, George Rickey was a pioneer
in the field of kinetic art. From the 1950s until his death in 2002, he
employed his deep knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to produce works in
which the lyrical interaction between industrial materials and the
surrounding forces of nature creates an experience of profound beauty and
philosophical resonance.
Rickey’s sculptures are composed of
geometrical metal forms, which swivel on pendulums, ball bearings, and
knife-sharp edges to follow pre-determined paths in response to the
slightest movement of the wind. One of the centerpieces of the Hirshhorn
Museum’s internationally renowned sculpture collection, Rickey’s
Three Red Lines is 36 feet tall and features three
pointed arms that gracefully move back and forth in an implied parabolic
arc.
The Frist Center is pleased to display
Three Red Lines on our front patio located on the Broadway side of the
building.
Fletcher Benton's Truckin’
Jumbo Geo
Composed of geometric elements that have been
welded together in abstract configurations, Fletcher Benton’s sculptures
explore tensions between space and volume, balance and precariousness, and
simplicity and complexity. Truckin’ Jumbo Geo is
from a series that also evokes mechanized transportation, reflecting the
artist’s fascination with bicycles, racecars, trucks, and locomotives.
In 2008 Benton received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary
Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in Hamilton, New Jersey.
Previous recipients have included Louise Bourgeois, Anthony Caro, Christo
and Jeanne Claude, George Rickey, Mark di Suvero, and other illustrious
sculptors working since the mid-twentieth century.
Truckin’ Jumbo Geo is located on the back lawn of
the Frist Center.
Bachelor of Fine Arts Juried Exhibition
Various Media Description: This juried student exhibition highlights the
best of TTU art students. Work represented includes: clay, fibers, glass,
metals, painting, and wood. Gallery One
January 14-February 18
Brian Ferrell Static Wood & Metal Description: Variety of
pieces ranging from metal vessels, wall-mounted cabled pieces, and
free-standing furniture. All works have a consistent aesthetic language. Gallery Two
January 28-March 10
Nathan Dube Boys Toys Mixed Media /
Metals Description: This series of work examines the ideas of childhood
and play. It explores the relationships to humor, aggression, masculinity,
and how the adult male identity is constructed in contemporary culture. North Windows Gallery
About the
Metals Program
We offer a comprehensive program laying
the foundation for a career in contemporary metalsmithing. Our students
pursue careers as jewelers, blacksmiths, studio artists and teachers.
The B.F.A. curriculum has a series of
classes in jewelry, casting, hollowware, sculpture, blacksmithing,
drawing, design and history, in addition to general academic studies.
Projects range from jewelry to architectural ironwork.
Students are exposed to a broad range of
techniques and historical metal work in these classes. The use of
traditional hand tools, combined with modern machine tools, is taught with
an emphasis on creativity. Students design and create solutions for
functional and aesthetic problems using more advanced tooling and skills.
During the final semesters, students refine their work by creating and
exhibiting a body of work.
Studio
Profile
Learn ancient techniques with
contemporary interpretation
Enjoy a 6,000-square-foot
studio including blacksmithing facility, main bench room, raising,
buffing and chemical rooms
Develop professional skills from fine
jewelry to large-scale sculpture
Work with a resident artist, visiting
artists, and workshop lecturers
Have access to professional groups
and studio/gallery visits
We offer an array of sculpture, goblets,
jewelry, scent bottles, paperweights, platters, wall art, and many other
treasures, large and small. Featuring an ever-changing selection of
outstanding and innovative work by over 300 contemporary glass
artists.
Iron:
Forged, Tempered, Quenched
January 16 – May 16, 2010
Opening
Reception Friday, January 15, 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Gallery Talks Saturday, January 16
11:00 AM Dave Koenig, Blacksmith and Founder of Houston
Area Blacksmiths’ Association (HABA) 12:00 PM Kenneth
Schwarz, Blacksmith and Master of Shop at Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation 1:00 PM Gabriel Craig, Metalsmith,
Writer, and Craft Activist; Current HCCC Artist-in-Residence
“Iron:
Forged, Tempered, Quenched
celebrates the rich history of American blacksmithing by
bridging historical and contemporary works and illustrating the
wide variety of blacksmithing techniques and processes currently
practiced in the U.S. The exhibition is one of the most
significant exhibitions of blacksmithed objects in decades.” –
Gwynne Rukenbrod, Curator of Fine Craft at HCCC
Finely crafted ironwork is often overlooked in our daily lives.
It graces the façade of everyday buildings in the form of door
latches and window grills. It decorates the gate that encloses
the neighbor’s yard, so the dog cannot get loose. Houston Center
for Contemporary Craft celebrates this overlooked art form with
Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched, an exhibition of
historical and contemporary pieces of ironwork created in the
tradition of blacksmithing.
In early colonial American settlements, blacksmiths were
responsible for making everything from weapons to farm equipment
to cookware. As the Industrial Age took hold, the skills of a
blacksmith were in less demand. Very few blacksmiths continued
to learn the trade until a renewed interest in the art of
blacksmithing and metalwork emerged during the late 1970s. With
this resurgence came an interest in breaking away from the
historical mold and using the medium as a creative outlet to
shape new work, including sculpture.
The exhibition educates audiences about the processes used to
create historical and contemporary ironwork. Contemporary pieces
are exhibited alongside important historic works, such as farm
implements and tools, to allow visitors to visually identify how
blacksmithing artists combine contemporary design sensibilities
with historical traditions and techniques to create their
pieces.
Iron
features more than 40 pieces by 38 artists from across the U.S.,
including Elizabeth Brim, Frederic Crist, Carl Jennings, John
Medwedeff, Lee Ann Mitchell, Noellyn Pepos, Jon Shearin, Lee
Tribe and James Wallace. Local and regional artists in the show
include Dave Koenig, founder of the Houston Area Blacksmiths’
Association (HABA), members of the Austin Metal Authority, and
Texas artists, such as Todd Campbell, Tim Bailey, and Lars
Stanley. Contemporary works on view include sculptural and
conceptual works and interior furniture, including select pieces
from the permanent collection of The National Ornamental Metal
Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
2010 Exhibitions:
Michael Peterson:
Evolution/Revolution
March 27 – July 2
ClayHouston Exhibit
March 27 – May 23
2009 Artists-in-Residence Exhibit
May 29 – July 25
Paper Runway June 5 –
September 5
TAODA Exhibit July 31 – September
26
CraftTexas 2010 September 25, 2010 –
January 9, 2011
Jenine Bressner Glass Beads
October 2 – November 28
Leighelena Jewelry
December 4, 2010 – January 30, 2011
On view through February 21, 2010 At the Caroline Wiess Law
Building
The MFAH presents important additions to the museum´s design collection,
created by some of the most renowned designers of the 20th and 21st
centuries.
A sensory experience of eclectic art, featured in Metalsmith’s 2008
Exhibition in Print, catches the viewer by surprise with its exuberant
eccentricity.
Quirk features exhibitions of innovative work by both established
and emerging American and international artists. Our artists are chosen
for uninhibited use of materials and forms, for juxtaposition of tradition
and experimentation, and for refinement of vision and skill.
New Waves 2010 is CAC's annual,
multi-media, juried exhibition. As the leading contemporary art
institution in Virginia, CAC provides an opportunity for Virginia
artists to gain professional and public recognition through New
Waves 2010. Many works in the exhibition are available for
purchase--it's a great time to start collecting contemporary art and
support Virginia artists at the same time!
Featuring Works by:
Angela
Allen
Aurora Lutty
John Henry Blatter
Aaron McIntosh
Shane Butler
Sarah Mizer
Warren Craghead
III
Sonya Paclob
Mary Elkins
Nikki Painter
Ana Esteve Llorens
Pamela Pecchio
Ryan Gothrup
Tate Pray
Christi Harris
Kristen Rego
Akiko Jackson
Matthew Damian Ritchie
Paul Jeffreys
Susan Tolbert
Andrew Kozlowski
Keith Varadi
CALL TO
ARTISTS:
Create work for new Art School at
Virginia Beach Middle
The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (CAC)
is accepting proposals on behalf of Virginia Beach City Public Schools
(VBCPS) from artists for an outdoor public sculpture for Virginia Beach
Middle School (VBMS). The school is located five blocks from the
oceanfront on 25th Street and the school mascot is the Seahawk. Works must
be original and respond to the VBMS mascot. The commissioned piece will be
an integral and permanent part of the school's property and will be
located within a traffic circle in the public right-of-way.
This
call is open to Virginia artists 18 years of age and older.
2200 parks avenue | virginia beach, va | 757.425.0000
About Shelburne Museum: Located in Vermont's scenic Lake
Champlain Valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the nation's finest, most
diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over
150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition
buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum
grounds.
The museum’s collection includes works by the great Impressionists
Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas as well as a prized collection
of folk art including trade signs, weathervanes and quilts.
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, May 17 through October 25.
Featuring six large-scale works by sculptor John
L. Dreyfuss, this exhibition is an exploration into the evolution of
form and the wonder of invention. Referencing bones and early tool
shapes, each work examines the relationship between form, strength
of materials and the harnessing of power. Beginning with sketches,
wax, plaster and cast metal models, Dreyfuss has subtly refined each
work over the past decade and, through an ongoing collaboration with
aerospace engineers, has experimented with the fabrication process.
Rendered for the first time at monumental scale in composite
materials, these extraordinary works simultaneously draw on ancient
and primal references, while being distinctly contemporary in their
conception. This exhibition is generously supported by AT
The American University Museum hosts two
permanent collections:
The Katzen Collection, provided through an extraordinary gift from Cyrus and Myrtle
Katzen, contains more than 300 works of art including paintings, prints,
drawings, and sculpture. The collection, a joyous, eclectic mix of fine,
pop, and folk art, contains many works from artists such as Marc Chagall,
Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, and Pablo Picasso.
The Watkins Collection,which contains more than 4400 works of art, including paintings,
prints, drawings, and sculpture focuses on twentieth century art, with a
special emphasis on Washington area art produced since the 1940s. The
Watkins Collection was created in 1945 as a memorial to C. Law Watkins,
the former chair of the Department of Art at American
University.
With
great sadness the Bead Museum Washington DC closed its doors to the
public on December 31, 2008. Though successful on many levels, the
mounting costs of operating the Museum in the current fiscal climate
dictated the decision to close. We thank the many volunteers who donated
their precious time and energy, and the many other friends whose
generous donations enabled us to exist in the heart of our nations
capital for 12 years.
Programs -the
majority of the programs affiliated with the museum will continue as
activities of The Bead Society of Greater Washington.
This installation of more than 30 bronze sculptures
from the Corcoran’s world-renowned collection of American art highlights
works dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries by such masters of
the medium as Elie Nadelman, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Alexander Phimister
Proctor (sculptor of Washington’s Buffalo Bridge). Works by women
sculptors are a particular strength of the Corcoran’s collection, including
those by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Anna Hyatt
Huntington, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh. The exhibition also features popular
favorites such as western bronzes by Frederic Remington, a Civil War group
by John Rogers, and sculptures by artists better known for their paintings,
such as Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent.
Sculpture from the Mouse House: The
Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran on view
now
Even before her marriage to one of the most astute art
collectors of the 20th century, Olga Hirshhorn had long been accumulating
objects on her own. While her first collections consisted of hats, hair
combs, furniture, and jewelry, they pointed the way to her lifelong
commitment to art. She is a passionate collector with an extraordinary
breadth of interest in small scale objects at the forefront of artistic
thought or steeped in traditional culture, from artists both renowned and
little-known. From Cypriot, African, and pre-Columbian antiquities to
sculpture, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary masters, Hirshhorn
has amassed a treasure trove of primarily small and domestic-scale objects
that demonstrates her searching, critical eye and sensitivity to a wide
range of forms and styles.
In 1995 and again in 2004, Olga Hirshhorn donated
significant groups of art from her collection to the Corcoran Gallery of
Art. Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at
the Corcoran displays a selection of three-dimensional works from these
gifts that she had displayed in her Washington, D.C. home. Her tiny
residence came to be called the “mouse house” by her friends, and the size
of these works reflect the intimate nature of her home as well as the
lasting friendships between herself and some of the artists whose work she
collected.
Olga Hirshhorn’s collection was created mainly during
the 1960s and 70s, a time when her late husband, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the
founding donor of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, was still
avidly collecting. Through him and his legendary love of American and
European modern art, she met artists and dealers and became an avid
collector herself. Her collection substantiates her astute eye and keen
passion for all the arts. Ranging from the geometric elegance of works by
Henri Laurens, Ilya Bolotowsky and Kenneth Snelson to the pop sensibilities
of John Chamberlain and Antonia Miralda, the Hirshhorn collection at the
Corcoran offers a glimpse into the passion of collecting for the love of
art.
Corcoran Gallery of Art 500 Seventeenth
Street NW Washington, DC 20006
The museum's Renwick Gallery is home to the nation's
premier collection of American studio craft and contemporary decorative
arts. The permanent collection features works in all of the craft
media—glass, ceramic, wood, fiber, and metal—as well as mixed media
objects. Jewelry and studio furniture make up a significant part of the
collection. Highlights include works by Wendell Castle, Robert Ebendorf,
and Albert Paley. Larry Fuente's Game Fish (right), an assemblage
of game pieces in the form of a trophy fish, is a favorite among Renwick
visitors.
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese
American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Special exhibition galleries, 1st floor, Renwick
Gallery March 5, 2010 –
January 30, 2011
The Art of Gaman showcases arts and crafts made by
Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. Soon after
the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, almost all ethnic
Japanese—more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth—were
ordered to leave their homes and move to ten inland internment camps for the
duration of the war. While in these bleak camps, the internees used scraps
and found materials to make furniture and other objects to beautify their
surroundings. Arts and crafts became essential for simple creature comforts
and emotional survival. These objects—tools, teapots, furniture, toys and
games, musical instruments, pendants and pins, purses and ornamental
displays—are physical manifestations of the art of gaman, a Japanese
word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience.
The exhibition features more than 120 objects, the majority of which are
on loan from former internees or their families. The display at the Renwick
Gallery includes several objects that have not been seen publically,
including works by Ruth Asawa, Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Isamu Noguchi,
Henry Sugimoto, and master woodworkers Gentaro and Shinzaburo Nishiura. It
presents an opportunity to educate a new generation of Americans about the
internment experience and will provide a historical context through archival
photographs and artifacts. The exhibition is organized by San
Francisco-based author and guest curator Delphine Hirasuna, and is based on
her 2005 book The Art of Gaman, published by Ten Speed Press.
The exhibition is presented under the patronage of The Honorable Norman
Y. Mineta. Mr. Mineta, a former Congressman and Regent of the Smithsonian,
was interned at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.
Credit The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts
from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 is presented at
the Renwick Gallery, with the cooperation of the Japanese American Citizens
League, San Francisco Chapter. The James Renwick Alliance, Japan Foundation
Center for Global Partnership, Nion McEvoy, and Cary Frieze provided support
for the exhibition.
Renwick Craft Invitational 2011
Special exhibition galleries, 1st floor,
Renwick Gallery March 25, 2011 – July 31, 2011
The Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 presents the work of
ceramic artist Cliff Lee, furnituremaker Matthias Pliessnig, glass artist
Judith Schaechter and silversmith Ubaldo Vitali. These four extraordinary
artists create works of superior craftsmanship that address the classic
craft notion of function without sacrificing a contemporary aesthetic
Cliff Lee (b. 1951), a neurosurgeon by training who works in Stevens,
Pennsylvania, creates elegant porcelain vessels with the exactitude of a
doctor, often using his knowledge of chemistry to recreate medieval Chinese
glazes long thought lost to history. Matthias Pliessnig (b. 1978), a
furniture maker in Philadelphia, uses boat-building techniques in new ways
to create graceful forms with curved wood strips that may have up to 5,000
points of contact without the aid of hardware. Judith Schaechter (b. 1961),
a glass artist based in Philadelphia, brings a wealth of knowledge about
traditional stained-glass practice to her moody windows. Ubaldo Vitali (b.
1944), a fourth-generation silversmith and master conservator of historic
silver in Maplewood, New Jersey., uses classical techniques he learned in
Rome to create luminous works for popes, kings, and presidents.
The Renwick Craft Invitational is the fifth in a biennial exhibition
series—established in 2000—that honors the creativity and talent of craft
artists working today. The four artists to be included in the exhibition
were chosen by Nicholas Bell, curator at the museum's Renwick Gallery;
Ulysses Dietz, senior curator of decorative arts at the Newark Museum in New
Jersey; and Andrew Wagner, editor-in-chief of ReadyMade magazine.
Book A catalogue, with essays by Nicholas Bell, Ulysses
Dietz, and Andrew Wagner, will accompany the exhibition.
Credit The Ryna and Melvin Cohen
Family Foundation generously supports the Renwick Craft Invitational 2011.
Beads travel vast distances, pulling different
parts of the world together like miniature magnets. In this installation,
you'll see how small glass "seed beads," manufactured in the Czech
Republic and Venice, Italy, have circled the globe. They decorate a hat
for a storyteller from Tibet, a flag for a ceremony in Haiti, garments for
a bride in South Africa and for a horse in Japan.
Seattle Art Museum Downtown 1300 First
Avenue Seattle, WA 98101-2003 206.654.3100
Edge of the Sublime
presents a first-ever retrospective of works by Jamie Bennett, one of the
most important enamelists working today. This exhibition explores the
artist’s creative use and development of a variety of enameling and
metalworking techniques to produce highly color-saturated imagery on
signature brooches, necklaces and pendants. Included are more than 80
ornaments, in addition to paintings and a selection of wall reliefs,
sketches and notebooks. Drawings and accompanying texts shed light on the
artist’s practices, revealing both working processes and conceptual
developments.
Over the past 30 years, Bennett’s painterly innovations have greatly
expanded the field of fired enamel into a medium for contemporary
expression. Enameling is an ancient method of decorating metal by sifting or
painting enamel powder (finely ground glass) onto a metal surface and then
heating the piece with a torch or in a kiln to melt and fuse the glass to
the metal. Certain influences are clearly visible in Bennett’s work,
including his fascination with words and symbols, and his mother’s work as a
fashion designer/dressmaker.
About the Artist Jamie Bennett
divided his time growing up between a Pennsylvania suburb and New York City.
After a brief period at New York University, he transferred to and graduated
from the University of Georgia, Athens with an undergraduate degree in
business in 1971. After receiving his BBA, Bennett followed his passion for
the arts to the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, where he
devoted himself to becoming a metalsmith. He completed his MFA in 1975, and
went on to several teaching positions including a faculty position for the
Program in Artisanry at Boston University. He is now a Professor of Art in
the Metal Program at his alma mater, SUNY at New Paltz. His work is included
in the collections of over 20 museums around the world, including: the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Musée de
Arts décoratifs, Paris; Museum of Arts & Design, New York; and the Renwick
Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Softcover and hardcover exhibition catalogues are available for purchase
in the Museum Store.
Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard
March 18 - August 1, 2010
The Gold Standard
is Lisa Gralnick’s
most recent body of work. A series in
three parts, it explores the
relationship between gold’s history and
lore and its function as a commodity in
today’s world. Thought-provoking,
powerful and extremely well crafted,
Gralnick’s jewelry and sculptural works
question our relationship to the
material world.
In Commodification and Sensible
Economy, Gralnick casts used and personal objects in 18k gold and plaster,
calculating the ratio of gold to plaster on the basis of the market value of
the object and the value of gold at a set date. Section two, Phenomenology
and Substantialism, was borne out of the artist’s need to buy gold at an
affordable price to melt down and recover the gold. Gralnick “recorded”
these objects before destroying them by casting them in plaster, leaving an
eerie ghost of each object behind. In Transubstantiation and the
Historicized Object, the artist employs the recycled gold from part two to
create an ironic collection of objects with invented histories – genuine
forgeries inspired by her fascination with the Victorian era and its
obsession with the body, death, sexuality and the repression of women. With
each section, the artist delves deeper into the unique aspects of value –
both personal and societal – that make an object precious.
Gralnick is currently a Professor of Art at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, a position she has held for eight years.
Previously she was head of the metals program at Parsons School of Design in
New York City. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, Racine Art Museum and the Renwick
Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Tacoma Art Museum holds an important collection of studio art jewelry
by Northwest artists. The collection includes key works by Mary Lee Hu,
Ken Cory, Ron Ho, Ramona Solberg, Kiff Slemmons, and Nancy Worden.
Tacoma Art Museum 1701 Pacific Avenue Tacoma, WA
98402 253.272.4258
The Milwaukee Art Museum's extensive
collections of modern American and European art reflect the Museum's
intense interest in European modernism during the first half of the 20th
century. As early as 1914, just one year after the historic Armory Show in
New York, the Milwaukee Art Society presented “The Modern Spirit,” an
exhibition that included works by Duchamp and Léger. MAM's collection of
Modern art includes important works such as Léger's Study for Three
Portraits , Robert Henri's The Art Student (Miss Josephine
Nivison) , George Bellows's The Sawdust Trail , and Ludwig
Meidner's Portrait of a Young Man .
It was, however, the immense generosity
and vision of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley that established the Milwaukee Art
Museum as a leader in the United States of late 19th- and 20th-century
European art. Begun in 1950, the Bradley collection represented the
epitome of classic Modernism from 1906 Fauve paintings by Braque and
Vlaminck to seminal Expressionist paintings by such masters as Kirchner
and Kandinsky. Magnificent works by Picasso, Giacometti and O'Keeffe
represent some of the highpoints of artistic achievement in the mid
20th-century.
Alberto
Giacometti
Grounded in Cubism and Surrealism,
Alberto Giacometti turned to a signature investigation of mass and space,
with particular attention to the perception of the human figure in its
environment. His intensely modeled, emaciated figures increasingly
struggle to maintain their form against an aggressive, intimidating space.
After a period of working from memory,
in the 1950s Giacometti resumed using a model, often, as here, his wife,
Annette. Slender and elongated, the figure appears composed and her
clearly articulated features are no longer anonymous.
By positioning the truncated seated
figure on a beam rising from the base, the artist implied a chair but
actually permitted the fragmented, massive bronze figure to hover in
space, anchored but curiously light.
We welcome you to experience one of the nation's most impressive
contemporary craft museums. With a permanent collection of over 3,500
contemporary craft objects, RAM provides the opportunity to view many of
these in one of the collection shows throughout each year.
With a
concentration in ceramics, fibers, glass, metals and wood, RAM features
one of the most significant collections of contemporary crafts in North
America. The evolution of its collections began at the Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts with 300 pieces created for the Works Progress
Administration's Federal Art Project in the 1930s.
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Today, RAM holds more than 3,500 objects in its permanent collection,
including works by Dale Chihuly, Joel Philip Myers, Wendell Castle,
Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Lia Cook, Peter Voulkos, Albert Paley, Toshiko
Takaezu, Arline Fisch and several hundred more.
RAM's metal collection focuses on American Studio Jewelry, rather than
holloware and architectural metal work. They document the major movements
of American studio jewelry ranging from a concern with semi-precious
material, to more sculptural forms that challenge the relationship between
art and the body and finally today's preoccupation with the narrative and
the figure. Artists such as Arline Fisch, Richard Mafong, Earl Pardon, and
Robert Ebendorf employed a variety of techniques when they created these
pieces, ranging from a playful exploration of color to the use of natural
and industrial objects as raw materials.
Showcasing works in all media by artists
from east-central Wisconsin.
This
spring, the Arts Center will host Eight
Counties, an extensive juried exhibition
celebrating the breadth of art created
in east-central Wisconsin. Showcasing
works in all media including
photography, painting, drawing,
printmaking, ceramics, woodworking,
metals, textiles, glass, and mixed
media, this exhibition is the twelfth in
a series of surveys devoted to
highlighting the talents of our region’s
exciting artists.
We invited submissions from all
practicing artists—professional and by
avocation—in the eight county area of
Brown, Calumet, Fond du Lac, Manitowoc,
Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and
Washington counties, and this year we
were delighted by an unprecedented
number of strong entries. We received
submissions from over 520 artists
offering more than 1,550 individual
works of art!
31 October 2009 > 7 February
2010 Siegfried De Buck a career as a jewellery designer and
silversmith Siegfried
De Buck will turn sixty on 24 August 2009. To mark this occasion, Design
museum Gent will present an overview of his work. As a contemporary
jewellery designer and silversmith, Siegfried De Buck plays an important
role in the development of Belgian jewellery art. His career, in which
craftsmanship and elegance are key, spans over 30 years and bears witness to
a great personality. By virtue of his incessant drive for innovation,
various style periods surface within his design. Led by his sense of
materials, the designer joins precious and non-precious materials to form
unique objects.
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October 2009 > 7 February 2010
Disappeared from the GDR Design from 50 years ago In
1959 Christa Petroff-Bohne (°1934) was commissioned by the Ministry of the
Interior of the GDR to design a series of crockery for the GDR gastronomy.
At the time Christa Petroff-Bohne was working at the East Berlin Academy of
Arts. This academy had been set up at the beginning of the 1950s under the
direction of the Dutch architect/designer Mart Stam.This commission, which
was actually a pioneering work, was a challenge for Christa Petroff-Bohne.
She did not know any foreign designs and she was rather unfamiliar with the
term ‘Bauhaus’. Walter Ulbricht, the leader of the GDR, who had been trained
as a traditional furniture maker, hated the Bauhaus designs. Bauhaus was
taboo to him.
For many weeks Christa Petroff-Bohne studied the daily
routine in the various forms of gastronomy in 1959. She wanted to learn
more, for instance, about the requirements to be met by the new, stainless
steel crockery. That very same year the first designs were taken into
production in the Auer Besteck- und Silberwarenwerke (ABS) in the town of
Aue within the Erzgebirge district. The Wellner plant, a 19th-century
producer of silver cutlery and crockery, had been converted into a ‘Volkseigener
Betrieb’ (VEB). These designs, in a slightly modified version or not, were
produced until the beginning of the 1990s. A couple of new designs were
added to the series in the 1960s. Designers such as Brigitte Mahn-Diedering
and Dietmar Scheibe were involved. ABS did not produce the series of
stainless steel crockery for the average East German families but for
gastronomy and export purposes. The wholesale business ‘SUCCES’ from Lanaken
(B) imported the crockery to sell it in Belgium. In practice, the crockery
was highly satisfactory and there was no need to change it. Christa
Petroff-Bohne, who had in the meantime been appointed professor at the
Weissensee Akademie, stopped designing metal crockery after 1959. She still
made drawings of porcelain crockery and she also drew the shape of the
electric hand mixer KOMET RG 5. All gastronomy companies in the GDR (the
well-known Inter Hotels, restaurants, ice-cream parlours, etc.) used this
crockery for thirty years. After the ‘Wende’ (reunification of East and West
Germany) these companies were privatized at the beginning of the 1990s,
which implied that the old crockery was taken to the scrap dealer almost
everywhere. Only the Schwarzer Bär Hotel in Jena held on to the collection
and its guests still make use of it today, in 2009.
Silver Waves – Hiroshi
Suzuki - a major show of silver
vessels by the internationally acclaimed
Japanese silversmith.
Hiroshi graduated from the Royal
College of Art in 1999 and has since
taken the silversmithing world by storm!
His rise to prominence has been as
remarkable as his extraordinary
hand-raised silver vessels.
His work is considered unique due
to the superlative skill of his
craftsmanship and the monumental size of
the majority of his pieces. He
commands high prices and his pieces are
avidly collected - he is now
represented in 27 major public
international collections including the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the
Museum of Arts and Design, New York and
the Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide.
Tuesday 2 to
Friday March 5, 2010 10.00am to
5.00pm (late night opening until 8.00pm
on Wednesday March 3)
An exhibition of
the best entries from the 2010
Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship & Design
Awards provides a revealing and
fascinating insight into the highly
skilled art and working techniques of
today’s leading jewellers and
silversmiths.
Admission Price: Free Website:
http://www.craftanddesigncouncil.org.uk
Overview
The Company has a unique private
collection of antique silver, contemporary silver, jewellery and art
medals dating from the 15th century to the 21st century. The Collections,
which nearly all bear the London hallmark, number some 8,000
items. These items are used either for their original purpose, or to
display in exhibitions, or to inspire contemporary patronage of living
craftsmen. http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/
Now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert
Collection of gold, silver, mosaics, gold boxes and enamel portrait
miniatures was given to the nation by Sir Arthur Gilbert (1913-2001) in
1996. The collection was on display at Somerset House, London from 2001
until 2008 when it was transferred to the V&A Museum, South Kensington,
London. The move to South Kensington enables the collection to be
appreciated by a wider audience and the spectacular masterpieces it contains
will greatly enhance the V&A's existing displays.
The range of material and types of objects in the collection demonstrates
the personal interests and passions of Rosalinde and Arthur. These were
comprehensive yet selective, as can be seen in the array of artefacts so
carefully and enthusiastically acquired over many years. A passion for
opulence and the finest craftsmanship is evident throughout, unifying the
whole collection. The collection also shows how one passion inspired and
influenced the next. The collection of gold boxes, for example, included a
number which were set with portraits in enamel. It was this that first
encouraged the Gilberts' interest in, and particular affection for, enamel
portrait miniatures.
Some pieces from this vast collection, including objects made by Paul de
Lamerie, will be incorporated into displays elsewhere in the V&A, including
the Whiteley Silver Galleries. Some of the silver will be returned on loan
to the historic houses for which it was originally made, to Uppark, West
Sussex; Belton House, Lincolnshire; Erddig, Wrexham; Shugborough,
Staffordshire, and Dunham Massey, Cheshire. Hardstone (pietre dure) objects
from the collection will also be on show to the public at the Cliffe Castle
Museum in West Yorkshire. Further examples from the collection can also be
seen at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton,.
Selections from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection are now on
display to the public
in Rooms 70-73 at the V&A.
In a refurbished suite of galleries overlooking the garden, the display will
celebrate the masterpieces of the collection, with a particular focus on the
gold boxes. For any questions or enquiries about the Rosalinde and Arthur
Gilbert Collection please email gilbertcollection@vam.ac.uk
An 18th Century Enigma: Paul de Lamerie and the
Maynard Master
11 May 2009 - May 2010
Room 66 Free admission
Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751) was the greatest
silversmith working in England in the 18th century. A Huguenot (French
Protestant), he came to London with his parents, fleeing persecution in
France. His success lay in his own exceptional creativity in producing
stunning objects, but also in his ability as a businessman, retailing some
astonishingly spectacular silver using the most effective and innovative
suppliers in the trade.
The silver shown here is associated with de Lamerie's most brilliant
craftsman, whose identity is still a mystery, who worked from 1737 to 1745.
He is known as the Maynard Master, named after the dish made for Grey, 5th
Baron Maynard now in the Cahn family collection. Other masterpieces marked
by de Lamerie are from the collection of Sir Arthur Gilbert and this display
celebrates the opening of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries at the
V&A in 2009.
For more information about the V&A's collection of silver by Paul de Lamerie,
visit the
Paul
de Lamerie pages on the website. From there
you can also download and print a trail to bring with you to the V&A, to
help you find the highlights of the de Lamerie permanent collection across
the galleries.
Judaica from the Gilbert Collection
Until 30 September 2010
This small display features ornate Jewish ritual objects from Rosalinde and
Arthur Gilbert's collection. Arthur Gilbert's family, the Bernsteins, were
successful Jewish immigrants, who had moved to London from Poland in the
1890s. Central to Jewish observance is the Torah, the first five books of
the Hebrew Bible. The scroll on which the Torah is written is wound on
rollers called 'Trees of Life' ('Atzei Hayyim'). It is customary to decorate
the rollers with either a crown or a pair of rimmonim. The crown symbolises
majesty and the law of Torah. The rimmonim evoke the bells worn on the high
priest's robe as described in the Book of Exodus.
The William and Judith Bollinger
Jewellery Gallery displays 3,500 jewels from the V&A's jewellery
collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. The
gallery centres principally on the story of European jewellery during the
last 800 years. On show are jewels that reflect the splendour of courtly
life, some of the finest designs from the great jewellery houses of the
20th century and jewels designed by important contemporary makers.
Historic highlights include jewelled
pendants given by Queen Elizabeth I to her courtiers, and diamonds worn by
Catherine the Great of Russia. The age of Napoleon is represented by the
famous Beauharnais Emeralds, the gift of Napoleon to his adopted daughter,
and by tiaras and ornaments worn by the Empress Josephine.
Displays include a superb group of
jewellery by the famous, French art-nouveau designer, Réné Lalique, and
Lady Mountbatten's 'tutti frutti' ruby, sapphire, emerald and diamond
bandeau, which she bought from Cartier in 1928. The gallery will provide
the first opportunity to see the jewels given by New York collector and
dealer, Patricia V. Goldstein, which have significantly added to the
V&A' s collection of jewels by Tiffany and Cartier.
On display are exquisite pieces made
by some of the most prestigious designers of New York, Paris, London and
St Petersburg. There are two diamond tiaras by Cartier, a rare
plique-à-jour enamel and pearl bracelet by Boucheron and a gold Chaumet
bangle with a core of rubies and diamonds. Among the objects by Fabergé is
an enamelled snuff box with the diamond monogram of Tsar Nicholas II. The
V&A's collection is outstandingly rich in 19th century jewellery.
There are sprays of diamonds mounted on tremblers as well as revivalist
jewellery in the archaeological and renaissance styles. New to the gallery
will be the Judith H. Siegel gift of jewellery by Castellani and Giuliano
which includes the Helen of Troy necklace designed by Sir Edward
Poynter.
Over 140 living goldsmiths and
jewellers are represented in the gallery. The contemporary work ranges
from ring sets by Wendy Ramshaw to a carved pin in recycled acrylic by
Peter Chang and a vivid papier-mâché neckpiece by Marjorie Schick. Another
addition is a selection from the Royal College of Art Visiting Artists
Collection.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has collected dress
since its earliest days.
The collection covers fashionable dress from the
17th century to the present day, with the emphasis on progressive and
influential designs from the major fashion centres of Europe. The V&A
collections also include accessories such as jewellery, gloves and
handbags.
Some designers in the Jewellery Collection see website for
more...
Wendy Ramshaw is a leading and internationally renowned
artist jeweller, who never ceases to experiment with a diverse range of
materials and new technologies. She first trained in illustration and
textile design. Her early jewellery, made in the early 1960s with her
husband David Watkins, used screen-printed acrylic and paper. In about
1970 she turned to working in silver and gold, rapidly establishing a
distinctive minimalist style influenced by modernism and industrial
design.
Nephrite jade was first introduced into the Mughal empire as a raw
material from China in the reign of the emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605), but
no artefacts are known to have been made at court until the reign of his
son, Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Jade was used to fashion royal wine cups,
dagger and sword hilts and jewellery, and was probably seen only at the
highest levels of the court. By the second half of the 17th century its
use was increasingly common, and the jade was often studded with jewels
set in gold that was so highly refined its softness allowed it to be
shaped round the gemstones to hold them in place. This thumbring came from
the famous collection formed by Colonel Charles Seton Guthrie, who served
in India from 1828 to 1857. He stayed in India for several years after his
retirement, and was thus in a position to buy jades and other hardstones
from the royal collections that were being broken up as British rule
steadily encroached, leading to the 1857 Sepoy Revolt.
The Austrian jeweller Fritz Maierhofer is also a sculptor,
furniture designer and graphic artist. In 1971 his work was shown at the
Electrum Gallery, London, alongside that of German jewellery makers Claus
Bury and Gerd Rothmann. All three broke with convention by combining a
non-precious material, such as acrylic, with gold. Maierhofer then went on
to experiment with an even wider range of materials, including tin and
Corian.
C. R. Ashbee was a man of immense talents and energy and a
defining figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. In 1888 he founded the
Guild of Handicraft in the East End of London with the intention of
reviving traditional craft skills and providing satisfying employment in a
deprived area of the city. Trained originally as an architect, he is known
also for his highly innovative furniture, metalwork, silver and jewellery
designs.
This brooch was originally a pendant, attached with many
others to a necklace also made by the Guild of Handicraft. Its ship motif
was a favourite of Ashbee's, often appearing on Guild of Handicraft work.
The ship was also popular amongst other Arts and Crafts designers in
Britain, American and Scandinavia.
Lapland and Iceland are the most remote areas of north-west Europe.
Their traditional jewellery retains many medieval characteristics lost
elsewhere.
Before zip fasteners, women laced their bodices with a
cord running through eyelets at either side of the front opening, in the
same way that people still lace their shoes. Because of their prominent
position on the front of the costume, the eyelets, along with their cords
and tags, often became pieces of jewellery.
These eyelets, or
bodice fasteners, consist of silver rings with Gothic letters and pendants
on the front. They were worn by the nomadic Sami women of Lapland. The
Sami women did not wear bodices, but their costume included a decorative
yoke, or collar, which was covered with small pieces of silver jewellery.
They wore these bodice fasteners as decorative appliqués on the yoke.
A New Acquisition for
the V&A
The Sculpture collection is pleased
to welcome a new addition to its collection of contemporary art medals - a
silver version of Leda and the Hat Pin by Linda Crook, 2003. If you can,
come and see the medal on display at the Victoria and Albert
Museum in Room 64, Level 2.
The Metalwork
collection
The Metalwork collection at the Victoria and Albert
Museum includes the newly displayed national collection of English silver,
as well as ironwork, continental silver, arms and armour, enamels,
brasswork, pewter and medieval metalwork of international importance. In
this section you can learn about the process of returning the Hereford
Screen to its former splendour and see the restored Silver
galleries.
Glass
The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the National Collection of Glass.
It includes more than 6000 pieces, from the Middle East, Europe and
America, and illustrates the 4000-year history of glass, from the
2nd millennium BC to the
present.
Metalwork
The Metalwork collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum includes the
newly displayed national collection of English silver, as well as
ironwork, continental silver, arms and armour, enamels, brasswork, pewter
and medieval metalwork of international importance. In this section you
can learn about the process of returning the Hereford Screen to its former
splendour and see the restored Silver galleries.
Sculpture
The Sculpture collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the
most comprehensive holding of post-classical European sculpture in the
world. Read some interesting stories behind the objects and explore the
collection of beautifully illustrated books on sculpture.
Rodin at the V&A
The 1914
Gift
In November 1914, the great French
sculptor Auguste Rodin gave 18 of his sculptures to the V&A in honour
of the French and British soldiers killed in the war. Most of the works
were bronzes, but there was also one marble and one terracotta.
This group of works is unique in
public collections, having been personally selected and given by Rodin
himself. He described it as a collection he had been making all his life.
For us it provides an accurate retrospective view of the major
achievements of his sculptural output.
The Gilbert Bayes Sculpture
Gallery
This gallery is devoted to the making
of Sculpture. It charts the creative process from the first idea through
all the intermediate stages to the finished object. The pieces have been
selected to illustrate the rich diversity of materials and wide variety of
techniques that sculptors have used. They are mainly small in scale and
range from early medieval ivories to modern bronzes.
Gilbert Bayes (1872-1953), after whom
the gallery is named, had a long and eventful career. He produced a wide
range of sculpture, using many of the techniques and materials shown here.
At one end of the gallery are modelled and cast works. At the other end of
the gallery are carved objects.
Ryedale Folk Museum
Located within Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton le
Hole, North Yorkshire, The Gallery is a new public visual arts space for
Rural North Yorkshire. We display contemporary arts and crafts in the
heritage context of the Museum and celebrate the creativity of the local
community.
We are an
internationally oriented, cultural institution functioning on a public
service basis. Our primary concern is the promotion and support of
contemporary trends in jewelry as well as in metal hollow- and flatware
design. Providing young gold- and silversmiths with a forum for the general
public through competitions, exhibitions, and publications is one of our
most important objectives. We promote the awareness and acceptance of art
jewelry as well as limited edition production or classic one-of-a-kind
jewelry. In the meantime, contemporary jewelry and silverware have become
coveted collectors' items. A special venue for exhibitions is offered by the
Hanau museum, the German Goldsmiths' House, which has been under the
direction of the Association for Goldsmiths' Art since April 1, 2006.
Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V. (Association for
Goldsmith’s Art) Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau Altstädter
Markt 6 D-63450
The Horyuji Treasures consist of over 300
valuable objects, mainly from the 7th - 8th century, which were donated to
the Imperial Household by Horyuji Temple in 1878.
Sculpture and Metal
Art
Modern
Sculpture Corridor April 7, 2009 - April 4,
2010 Including: Mr. Tobari Kogan, By
Ogiwara Morie, dated 1909 Eva, By Auguste Rodin, 19th
century
Metalwork Room 5 March 24, 2009 - April 11,
2010 Exhibit includes: Dragon-head
Pitcher, Asuka period, 7th century (National Treasure) Mirror
with design of Sea and Islands, Tang dynasty or Nara period, 8th
century (National Treasure)
Steneby is the collective name for the
stimulating educational and cultural activities found in the invigorating
setting at Dals Långed in Sweden’s Dalsland Province. Today the
Stenebyskolan Foundation and the School of Design and Crafts at University
of Gothenburg offer a broad spectrum of one and two-year preparatory
courses in the art´s field, as well as university education at both the
bachelor and masters levels.
Between Metaphor and Object features a range of
works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works
from the 1990s. It provides perspectives on the diversity of practice that
is represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its
particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends
of the decade. The title of the exhibition references perceived polarities
in art since the 1960s and also proposes the idea of the continuous flux
visited upon artworks in the mind of the viewer between symbolism and
objecthood. Notably the exhibition incorporates a number of pieces from the
Weltkunst Collection, which is on loan to IMMA since 1994. This significant
collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s and ‘90s will
return to the Weltkunst Foundation in 2010 and the exhibition acknowledges
the generous loan of these works.
For further information please contact : Irish Museum of Modern Art/Áras Nua-Ealaíne na
hÉireann Royal Hospital Military Road Kilmainham Dublin
8 Ireland Telephone : +353-1-612 9900 Fax : +353-1-612 9999
The Rolling Ball Museum in Seoul, Korea has
acquired two of Los Angeles metal sculptor Bruce Gray's kinetic rolling
ball machine sculptures for their permanent collection. The museum's
website is at:
Deadline for submitting photographs and
registration forms is March 15, 2010 for
"I Care A Lot" online exhibition which
will take place May 15, 2010. The
project's aim is to raise the discussion
about current issues in the Middle East
through an international art exhibition
in which jewelry is the chosen media.
The work should have an unexpected
creative concept. The jewelry pieces can
express a belief, a wish, it can be a
trigger to start a discussion, raising
questions, showing your opinions, a
teaser, a protest or what ever you find
relevant to the topic. There will be a
color printed catalogue, limited
edition, anticipated to be published
June 15, 2010. The project will be
presented to galleries and museums for a
future exhibition. The exhibition is
juried and open to professionals and
students working in any visual medium.
SCHWARCZ #827,
June Schwarcz, Spun copper bowl with electroformed lines, red
enamel interior, and opal, beige and white enamel exterior,
U.S.A., 1981 
SCHWARCZ #2358,
June Schwarcz, Electroformed copper foil vessel, red enamel
interior, iron plated exterior, U.S.A., 2008 
In
1959 Christa Petroff-Bohne (°1934) was commissioned by the Ministry of the
Interior of the GDR to design a series of crockery for the GDR gastronomy.
At the time Christa Petroff-Bohne was working at the East Berlin Academy of
Arts. This academy had been set up at the beginning of the 1950s under the
direction of the Dutch architect/designer Mart Stam.This commission, which
was actually a pioneering work, was a challenge for Christa Petroff-Bohne.
She did not know any foreign designs and she was rather unfamiliar with the
term ‘Bauhaus’. Walter Ulbricht, the leader of the GDR, who had been trained
as a traditional furniture maker, hated the Bauhaus designs. Bauhaus was
taboo to him. 