by Sandy | Aug 4, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Creativity, Drawing, Exhibits, Museums
“Capturing Nature’s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes”
In this current exhibit, the Getty Museum “highlights key moments in the French landscape tradition, from its emergence in the 1600s to its preeminence in the 1800s.“
The 40 drawings on view include work by artists such as Van Gogh, Fragonard, Pissaro, Callot and more.
“Three Centuries of French Landscapes”, until November 1, 2009
J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California
by Sandy | Jul 19, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Creativity, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Photographer Ansel Adams and painter Georgia O’Keeffe had similar sensibilities and a mutual love of the American West. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has selected 100 pieces from these 2 artists that reflect their appreciation of dramatic landscapes with both paintings and photographs.
“Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities”
SF MoMA – Until 9/7/09
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
Images: “The Tetons and the Snake River”, Adams 1942 and
“Black Mesa Landscape, O’Keeffe, New Mexico 1930
by Bob Martin | Jul 7, 2009 | Art, Creativity
Julie Anand, Richard Lerman, Carrie Marill
October 10, 2009-February 20, 2010
“Nowhere to Hide” presents the work of three artists who live in Phoenix and have explored definitions of sustainability in their multi-media artworks. Their approaches range from photography to sound sculpture and gouache paintings.
Julie Anand’s Material Histories are based on her walks around the Valley; as she moves through the city’s neighborhoods she collects lost and discarded items along the way. Her brilliantly-hued photographs present the found objects like specimens and begin to tell stories of the people who have traveled along the same path – their habits and preoccupations.
Richard Lerman is a well-known sound artist who creates speakers and instruments from tumbleweeds and cactus, cereal boxes and rejection letters. His work often explores the inevitable trade-offs in our interaction with the land, how even green systems and solutions impact our environment.
Visual Aides, by Carrie Marill, is a series of gouache paintings which represent environmental problems and solutions brought on and devised by humans. The series was inspired by candy-colored classroom posters from the 1940s, found by the artist at a flea market in France, of different domestic, agricultural, industrial and maritime landscapes. She reprints the images on watercolor paper and updates them with current events and objects, like recycling bins in a bucolic farmyard and a cargo ship with a parasail in the busy harbor scene.
Marill, like all of the artists in the exhibition, grapples with issues of personal responsibility and control, sustainable systems that inevitably require compromise and the complex, global challenges of humans living on earth.
Inquires
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85287-2911
t. 480.965.2787
f. 480.965.5254
e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu
w. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
blog. http://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/
Donations to the ASU Foundation
by Sandy | Jul 4, 2009 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Creativity, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
The California African American Museum, (CAAM), presents:
“Inside My Head: Intuitive Artists of African Descent”
The catalog describes “Inside My Head” as a “showcase for the work of 32 contemporary artists of African descent who have developed a mature style in an intuitive manner. The exhibition explores pure artistic creativity and validates the connection to ethnic-specific traditions and ways of doing.”
Using painting, jewelry, sculpture, dolls, collages, some of the artist’s themes include dreams, spirituality and transformation.
“Inside My Head” – Until September 27, 2009
California African American Museum –CAAM
600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA
Images: “Earth Mother”, 2007, Cola and “Poor Butterfly”, 1997, Madi Comfort
by Bob Martin | Jul 1, 2009 | Art, Artist Residencies, Creativity, Galleries
Social Studies Project 5
Artist in residence in the gallery: October 5-November 14, 2009
Exhibition: October 5, 2009-January 9, 2010
Social Studies challenges the traditional exhibition format by opening with an empty gallery and an artist in residence who considers social interaction a crucial part of their art-making. Visitors are invited into the gallery to participate with the artist to create objects and installations, or to observe and question the process. Working through public/private partnerships with multiple ASU departments, schools and community organizations, the project brings museum visitors into the art-making process, invites extensive collaboration with community and university students, and greatly enhances the museum’s role as a vital gathering place.
In this, our fifth Social Studies project, Canadian artist Jillian McDonald will explore sustainability in the museum while including grassroots, community conversations. “At this point, my thoughts for the Tempe project circulate around haunted sites, ghosts and abandoned houses, focusing on ideas around sustainable living, ghost towns and The Day of the Dead,” says McDonald. “I will be visiting Arizona in June to get acquainted with the landscape and local customs, and to further develop site-specific ideas.”
Usually, a work of art is created in the solitude of an artist’s studio, shipped to an exhibition space and installed by museum staff; this project will allow museum visitors direct access to a contemporary artist and her creative process. Research, discussion and art-making are the subject matter of Social Studies rather than a behind-the-scenes activity.
The project will culminate in an installation, led by the artist, which will remain at the museum beyond the six-week residency. There are few artists in Phoenix who work in this method and, as the city continues to mature, projects like Social Studies will play an important role in presenting new ways to make, think about and participate in art.
Inquires
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85287-2911
t. 480.965.2787
f. 480.965.5254
e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu
w. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
blog. http://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/
Donations to the ASU Foundation
by Bob Martin | Jun 29, 2009 | Art, Artist, Creativity
The Banff Centre – Work Study Opportunities
Live and learn in the inspiring Canadian Rockies. The Banff Centre’s work study program provides internship-style opportunities that attract talented and creative individuals who are seeking opportunities to enhance their education and pursue a career in the arts.
Positions available immediately.
Visual Arts Opportunities
Banff New Media Institute Opportunities
For more information and to apply:
The Banff Centre, Office of the Registrar
Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.6180 or 1.800.565.9989
Box 1020, Banff, Alberta
Canada T1L 1H5
http://www.banffcentre.ca
