by Sandy | Nov 18, 2008 | Artist, Exhibits, Museums
Artist Edward Hopper, 1882- 1967, has an exhibit at SAM, the Seattle Art Museum in Washington until March ’09 that focuses specifically on his women themed work. Consisting of paintings, etching and photographs, the intention of the show is to support the opinion “that Hopper found his most potent, enigmatic subject in the American city–the modern American woman… a look at a social dynamic that was reshaping the urban scene–the influx of young women into the modern work-a-day world.“
SAM – Seattle Art Museum Downtown
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
(Image = Chop Suey, 1929, oil on canvas)
by Sandy | Nov 15, 2008 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Asian/American/Modern Art:
“Shifting Currents, 1900-1970”, thru Jan. 18, 2009
This 95 piece exhibit, lauded as “the first comprehensive survey of 20th century Asian American art”, will include work by:
Painter and watercolorist Dong Kingman
Sculptor Isamu Noguchi
Video artist Nam June Paik
“Shifting Currents, 1900-1970”
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Image “Setting Sun: Sacramento Valley,” a 1925 scroll painting by Chiura Obata)
by Sandy | Nov 5, 2008 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, sculptor
“These things are very dear to me. They’re a part of me…They’re my treasure. If I sold these, I’d be really poor.”
Sculptor and self taught wood carver Ulysses Davis, 1913-1990, will have the 1st major exhibit of his work in 25 years at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA beginning December 6, 2008.
Featured will be “approximately 115 works including representative works from every genre in which Davis worked: portraits of U.S. and African leaders, religious images, patriotic works, carvings influenced by African forms, fantasy, flora and fauna, love, humor, abstract decorative objects and utilitarian objects such as canes and furniture.”
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309
http://www.high.org/
by Bob Martin | Oct 31, 2008 | Art, Artist, Exhibits, Museums
Art Review – ‘theanyspacewhatever’ – A Romantic Comedy Unspools at the Guggenheim – NYTimes.com
This speaks for itself – unfortunately, you had to be there.
by Sandy | Oct 16, 2008 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927 – 1937″
Barcelona born surrealist painter, Joan Miró (1893–1983), will have 10 years of his work, 1927 to 1937, presented at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC from November 2, 2008–January 12, 2009.
“I want to assassinate painting” he said. According to the exhibit catalog, “Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, purposeful stylistic heterogeneity, and the use of collage and ready made materials are among the aggressive tactics that Miró used in pursuit of his goal.”
The presentation features 12 of the artist’s paintings beginning in 1927 and ending with the “hallucinatory”, Still Life with Old Shoe”, 1937 seen above.
Joan Miró – 11/2/08 thru 1/12/09
Museum of Modern Art
www.moma.org
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by Sandy | Sep 21, 2008 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Museums
MoAD presents: ”The Hewitt Collection of African American Art”
Oct 15, 2008 – Jan 11, 2009
58 paintings collected by John & Vivian Hewitt of New York from 1949 – 1998 will be on display starting October 15. Some of the artists are well known, Romare Bearden, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Ann Tanksley, Jonathan Green, others not, but all represent the wide range of subjects, themes, techniques used by African Americans of the last 100 years or more.
The Hewitt Collection * 10/15/08 – 1/11/09
MoAD – Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
BTW: Vivian Hewitt’s cousin is acclaimed Phoenix, AZ artist and teacher, Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby
http://www.moadsf.org/
(Image: Ann Tanksley, Canal Builders II, 1989, Oil on linen)
