CHERYL GOLDSLEGER: Recent Works
Goldsleger’s works are inspired by relationships between location and territory, between micro detail and macro expanse, and between order and chaos. Using a highly nuanced palette of whites, greys, blacks and muted colors, these new works deconstruct reality into the two-dimensional plane. Although rooted in reality, these mixed media paintings and drawings are constructed in…
Read MoreThere was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman at the Smart Museum of Art
An extraordinary collection of 830 photographic works spanning from 1844 to 2012, given as a bequest to the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, forms the basis of “There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman” exhibition. There was a whole collection made mines the Estate of Lester and…
Read More“Cats and Hats” and “Turtle Power! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Samurai Heroes” at the Springfield Museums
Next summer, the Springfield Museums will open The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss, the first museum to honor Springfield native Theodor Geisel. In anticipation of that momentous occasion, the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts will exhibit a series of whimsical works on paper around the common theme of “Cats in Hats,” in…
Read MoreRineke Dijkstra: Rehearsals and The Lives of Other: Portraits from the Photography Collection at Milwaukee Art Museum
Over the past 30 years, Dijkstra has produced a sensitive and eloquent body of photographic and video work. In her large-scale photographs and video installations, she is particularly interested in moments of transition, especially adolescence, a time when individuals build their own identities and begin to present themselves in the way they wish to…
Read MoreHumanism + Dynamite = The Soviet Photomontages of Aleksandr Zhitomirsky at the The Art Institute of Chicago
“What gives the strength of dynamite to the photo-poster and pamphlet? First of all, its motto is humanism. And, of course, the ability to see in subjects something new, that which others do not see, but that they should by all means see.”—Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, The Art of Political Photomontage, 1983 Zhitomirsky began publishing drawings in…
Read More“Impressions of War” at the Saint Louis Art Museum
The Saint Louis Art Museum will present Impressions of War, an exhibition featuring The Disasters of War, Francisco de Goya’s 80-plate contemplation of war and its aftereffects, as well as additional series of prints by three artists whose works equally respond to the darker side of war and its aftermath. Francisco José de Goya…
Read MoreAtsuko Morita “365” at Space236 in San Francisco
The “365 ” exhibit is now over two years in the making. Using a pinhole camera I crafted specifically for this project, I have captured one moment from each day in my life. The photos are clustered by month, with a small portion of the negative exposed for each calendar day. I have been producing projects for years…
Read More“Masterpieces of The Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection” New Britain Museum of American Art
The New Britain Museum of American Art is pleased to present the exhibition Masterpieces of The Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, opening on July 8. Consisting of over 80 works by approximately 70 artists, this presentation represents a small yet exceptional portion of the Museum’s nearly 1,800-piece Low Illustration Collection. The Museum’s first director, Sanford…
Read MoreJerome Hershey ” New Strokes + Words” at Pennsylvania Arts Experience
“I make number and text based, color oriented abstract paintings and drawings. The paintings are created by repeating and layering the words or numbers found in the title of the piece. I use my own handwriting, fragment each letter or number and assign colors to every unit. Repeated over and over, the words become purposefully…
Read MoreODESSA / ОДЕ?ССА ‐ Babel, Ladyzhensky, and the Soul of a City at Yeshiva University Museum
Through the pairing and perspectives of two artists – the writer Isaac Babel and the painter Yefim Ladyzhensky – ODESSA / ОДЕ?ССА: BABEL, LADYZHENSKY AND THE SOUL OF A CITY offers an enriching dialogue between two masters across different media, bringing to life a city in the midst of revolution. The original exhibition immerses visitors…
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