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Jackson Gallery

San Diego State University
School of Art, Design and Art History

5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA  92182-4805

April 17-22, 2010
Opening Reception
April 17, 6-9

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San Francisco

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.

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.

Admission: $15 two-day admission. Allows free admission to San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show.

http://www.smmoa.org/

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Bloomington 

Indiana University Art Museum
http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu/

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Indianapolis

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Kentucky

Louisville

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Kansas

Manhattan

www.k-state.edu/bma

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Olathe

New Orleans

Ogden Museum

Paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and prints by acclaimed artist Nene Humphrey. She is the wife of the late Benny Andrews, whose work, along with his father, George Andrews, are also part of the Andrews-Humphrey Collection.

Biba Schutz and Marc Maiorana - Convergerent Lines: The Art of Adornment

Biba Schutz's art jewelry is composed of free-flowing linear metal forms, each one is a small wearable dynamic sculpture. Marc Maiorana's sculptural metal objects traverse the boundaries between form and function, infusing everyday objects with the poetry of art. This will be in the Center for Southern Craft and Design.

Ersy: "Hommage to the Society of Ste. Anne"

This sculpture was inspired by the artist's experience with the Society's annual parade, a costumed walking Mardi Gras krewe. The handcrafted sculpture is made of cast bronze and sits atop of a tall mahogany table with a sandblasted Plexiglas surface.

http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/index.html

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/

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.

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.

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

"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.

http://www.artsmia.org/

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.

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.

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.
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Hamilton

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 the Fall/Winter Season (October 2009 - April 2010), New Additions Outdoors is presented by Herb Ferris, Sydney Hamburger, Allan Houser, Joseph Howard, Seward Johnson, Royden Mills, Robert Roesch & Suzanne Reese-Horvitz, and James Surls.

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.

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.

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.