Posts Tagged ‘art on paper exhibitions’
Interact Gallery “Pop!” Exhibition in Saint Paul, Mn
Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts presents POP!, an exhibition featuring exuberant new work by seven artists challenging perceptions of disability. With a shared interest in popular culture, the artists offer imaginative ways of seeing the everyday (including from underwater and outer space!). These artists explore the meaning of “pop” from different vantage points.In…
Read MoreArt To Live With for students at the University of Chicago
The Smart Museum provides an art loan program, exclusively for University of Chicago students so they can become acquainted with and appreciate art. Each fall, students living in the University of Chicago’s residence halls have the unique opportunity to borrow original works of art to live with in their dorm rooms. Students are able to…
Read MoreDavid Hornung “Intimate Visions” at Delaware Art Museum
I use my memory and imagination to invent pictures. The subjects I like to paint are ordinary—walls, ladders, rocks, trees, simple buildings, garden tools, ropes, bones, rickety tables. I strip subject matter of extraneous detail so that it appears emblematic rather than naturalistic. This also makes it possible to intermingle pictorial elements with abstract and…
Read MoreGregory Euclide at Hasimoto Contemporary in San Francisco
The depiction of land has often been used as a means of celebrating or critiquing culture. The use of pastoral views, banal architecture and everyday trash problematize the traditional definitions of a natural landscape. Through the process of transforming and miniaturizing materials found in the land, objects, in their new context, are no longer discernible…
Read MoreJames Grubola “The Friday (and Thursday) Sessions”
This exhibition marks a returning to my first love – figure drawing. In August 1975 I began teaching drawing in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Louisville with a special emphasis on figure drawing. Over the next forty-two years I worked with hundreds of students, scores of models, and set up innumerable…
Read MoreAmy Sands at Rourke Art Museum
“I am interested in the interaction of color, space and memory – both from a perspective of the artist’s process as well as from the viewer’s active interaction with a finished piece. My art originates in my interest of the day-to-day experiences influenced by color, pattern and space, and how this is recorded in memory.…
Read MoreGraphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper at Cleveland Museum of Art
Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper has more than 50 prints and drawings in the exhibition dating from 1905 to around 1922. They present their responses to urban life, the nude, landscape, and war. Together they show how the Expressionists’ new graphic language disrupted and distorted traditional artistic themes to describe both a modern utopia…
Read MoreNorman Rockwell’s Christmas: Original Artwork for Hallmark
Hallmark has a remarkable legacy of collaboration with some of the world’s most renowned artists and designers. Perhaps none of these is more beloved than the American illustrator Norman Rockwell, whom Hallmark founder J.C. Hall commissioned to produce 32 paintings for the company’s greeting cards between 1948 to 1957, at the height of his career.…
Read MoreHeidi Jensen at Ball State University
Sit Comfortably in a Darkened Room and Think of Nothing: Recent Drawings by Heidi Jensen In Claude Cahun’s monologue “Helen the Rebel”, the narrative of Helen of Troy is reimagined and retold. Rather than existing as a passive object of desire, Cahun’s Helen collaborates with her husband Menelaus to orchestrate the Trojan War. Her renowned…
Read MoreMichael Bentley “New Works on Paper” at Gruen Galleries
“Walking out to the shore every morning and looking out over the sea, I am still in awe of its beauty” — Michael Bentley With these new works, Bentley continues to explore abstract seascapes, with his unconventional use of gouache. Working with the medium’s brilliance and range of opacities and the intricate use of white…
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