With over 200 photographs, film and TV clips displayed, this program “explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s.”
ICP – International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Sonny Rollins A Remarkable Jazz Musician, whose music sounds as fresh to me as it did in 1955 celebrates his 80th birthday at the Beacon Theater in New York. Some things are the way they are supposed to be-Sonny Rollins still going strong at 80. Blessed.
I was recently able to get to the Museum of Modern Art, NYC and visit one of my favorite paintings again.
“Starry Night”, makes me smile, makes me want to get up close. I swear that the swirling stars are infused with some sort of electrical current to make them look like they are about to fling themselves off the canvas. I expect to hear a sizzle when I lean in.
I think Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was able to recreate “night” brilliantly – no pun intended. Fortunately for us, he did a lot of paintings and so many of his landscapes show his treatment of evening light.
According to a museum catalog, he “attempted the paradoxical task of representing night by light. His procedure followed the trend set by the Impressionists of “translating” visual light effects with various color combinations. At the same time, this concern was grafted onto Van Gogh’s desire to interweave the visual and the metaphorical in order to produce fresh and deeply original works of art”.
(Just an aside – Had a conversation with someone speculating what would have been the outcome if Van Gogh had taken his medication consistently, would he have “seen” things the way he did? I assume that he painted what he “saw” – exploding stars, riotous color and all. If he were sedated, would his visions have been different? I don’t know.)
Woodcut, Linocut and Letterpress Prints and Photographs
The Cathedral Center for the Arts additionally hosts tours of the historic Cathedral and demonstrations of the famous Shantz Organ.
I look forward to seeing you at Cathedral Center for the Arts Olney Gallery !
Roberta Hancock
Gallery Director
Olney Gallery
Cathedral Center for the Arts
100 W. Roosevelt. St.
Phoenix, AZ 85003
The Olney Gallery is located in historic Trinity Cathedral at 100 W. Roosevelt St., Phoenix, AZ. Ample parking is located in the parking garage just north of the Cathedral between Roosevelt and Portland Streets.
For ArtLink Shuttle service; carpool and shuttles start at the Phoenix Art Museum. Trinity Cathedral is also immediately accessible from the Roosevelt Station of Valley Metro’s Light Rail.
I am fascinated by artist who image the “real”. The creations Patricia Piccinini have given reason to question what we look like and why we interpret intelligent life to look like us. Every time I see “The Embrace” I a startled a little as I am awakened to a possibility that I don’t think of or more accurately a possibility that I avoid thinking of. It is this type of imagination that I want to show up in my work one day.
“French master Paul Cézanne, one of the most recognizable names in art, is celebrated worldwide for his Post-Impressionist masterpieces. However, Cezanne’s greatest legacy may be the transformative effect his work had on 20th century artists. Cézanne and American Modernism is the first exhibition to examine Cezanne’s influence on American artists working between 1900 and 1930 by bringing together 16 of the French master’s paintings and works on papers with more than 80 works by 33 American artists, including Marsden Hartley, Maurice Prendergast, Arshile Gorky, Alfred Stieglitz and Man Ray.”
FYI: Cézanne (1839–1906) – Often referred to as the father of Modern Art “for his revolutionary use of flattened perspective, carefully structured compositions and his signature technique of painting with patches of color. “
Phoenix Art Museum : McDowell Road & Central Avenue
1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ
Images: Self Portrait (1875) and “Still Life with a Curtain” (1895)
The distinction we make about race must be some primal system that forgot to grow up. We’ve all heard ourselves at one time or another claim to be color blind and mean it and be both surprised and ashamed of our private thoughts about people who are not like us. In the last two years we’ve heard people say some of the most outrageous things about the President of the United States and his family and before taking a single proclaim “I am not a Racist”. I’ve wondered were our meanness comes from, what its purpose and when if ever will it end. It is painful to confront ourselves.
Progeny Two: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas
October 8, 2010 – January 9, 2011 an Exhibit at
“Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was one of the most well-known photographers from the Northwest. Working at a time when women photographers were few, Cunningham dedicated her life to her art. Drawn entirely from the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition of 60 photographs from 1915 to 1973 reveal Cunningham’s inquisitive eye—from portraits of Frida Kahlo, Alfred Stieglitz and other well-known artists of her time to portraits of her husband on Mt. Rainier, considered some of the first known photographs to be published of a male nude taken by a female photographer (in 1916) and much more. Spanning the artist’s career, the photographs on view demonstrate the breadth and range of Cunningham’s artistic vision and showcase one of the strengths of SAM’s photography collection.” –Marisa Sánchez, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Seattle Art Museum – SAM
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
The de Young Museum of San Francisco has a current exhibition focusing on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art from Paris.
“Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents nearly 100 magnificent works by the famous masters who called France their home during the mid- to late-19th century and from whose midst arose one of the most original and recognizable of all artistic styles, Impressionism. The exhibition begins with paintings by the great academic artist Bouguereau and the arch-Realist Courbet, and includes American expatriate Whistler’s Arrangement in Gray and Black, known to many as “Whistler’s Mother.” Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Sisley are showcased with works dating from the 1860s through 1880s, along with a selection of Degas’ paintings that depict images of the ballet, the racetrack, and life in the Belle Époque.”
With over 200 photographs, film and TV clips displayed, this program “explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s.”
