The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke presents the first career retrospective of the renowned A
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke presents the first career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Hendricks's unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere between portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast.
Cool, empowering and sometimes confrontational, Hendricks's artistic privileging of a culturally complex black body has paved the way for today's younger generation of artists. This unprecedented exhibition of Hendricks's paintings will include work from 1964 to the present. Trevor Schoonmaker, curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum, is organizing the show. The exhibition catalogue, distributed by Duke University Press, will include contributions from Schoonmaker, Richard J. Powell, the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection.
The exhibition will travel to the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Santa Monica Museum (Los Angeles), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston.
Video credits: camera, edits, etc: D. Colagiovanni
Special thanks: Barkley L. Hendricks, Susan Hendricks, Trevor Schoonmaker, & Rick Powell
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An Exhibition of 3 fresh new artists who deal with street culture at the Nasher Museum of
An Exhibition of 3 fresh new artists who deal with street culture at the Nasher Museum of Art.
The artists in "Street Level" explore the ways that cultural territories are defined and space is transformed in urban environments. For Bradford, Cordova and Rhode the streets of Los Angeles, Lima, Miami, New York, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Berlin act as sources of inspiration. They share a common interest in found materials and artistic gestures such as sneakers thrown over a telephone wire, stripping cars, spontaneous shrines and piles of discarded objects, that help build a gritty foundation for their art.
Street Level is the first show at the Nasher Museum to be organized by curator of contemporary art Trevor Schoonmaker.
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The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke presents a mid-career retrospective of the work of Romani
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke presents a mid-career retrospective of the work of Romanian artists Dan Perjovschi and Lia Perjovschi. Born in 1961 and educated in the Romanian socialism system, Dan & Lia Perjovschi create work that resides at the nexus of art, society and politics; both artists belong to the first avant-garde movement following the 1989 Romania Revolution. Dan is internationally renowned for large and small scale drawing installations of hundreds of cartoon-like figures that comment on local, national and international cultural and current affairs. He is also the foremost political cartoon satirist in Romania. Lia is well known for her performance and conceptual art. This unprecedented exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, videos, installations and conceptual art from 1986 to the present, as well as new commissioned works. The show follows a recent installation of Dan Perjovschi's drawings in the "Projects" section of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The show runs from August 22nd, 2007- January 8th, 2008
Music for the video was graciously provided by: Benjamin Dauer, & Edmund II
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Lump is very pleased to present trash and other camouflage an exhibition of new work by Th
Lump is very pleased to present trash and other camouflage an exhibition of new work by Thad Kellstadt and Jesse McLean.
Garbage, diamonds, blood drips and boat trips.
Thad Kellstadt and Jesse McLean create structures from a variety of sources. Refuse, found footage and mental trash are revealed and hidden alternately to explore the idea of transformation.
With his sculpture and painting, Kellstadt creates a sense of multidimensional disorder. The work in this exhibition reflects on the teenage spirit, displacement, enlightenment, and modern rural mysticism. Natural yet uncomfortable, the images channel the past and present simultaneously, playing like a warbled field recording.
McLean's Rough Diamonds, questions modern value systems by forcing unwanted material into the forms of five popular diamond cuts. Considered waste, these byproducts are abstracted into shimmering surfaces of video. In her Action Paintings, she contrasts abstract expressionist ideals against the bravado of popular action films. By using a video camera as a brush and action movies as paint, McLean swirls and streaks violent, hyper-masculine worlds into broad strokes of vivid color.
Kellstadt and McLean both hail from Chicago via Pittsburgh, where they are pursing MFAs at the Art Institute.
The exhibition was on view from October 5 -- 27, 2007
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Video credits:
Interviewed by Gilbert Duran
Camera by Shane Petty and Stephan Byerley,
editing by Shane Petty, audio and post by: Cornell C. Hopkins & Devlin Chapman, and hand-drawn titles by dc. Special thanks Thad, Jesse and Lump Gallery
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Lump is very pleased to present Urd Up, an exhibition of new work by Jeanine Oleson.
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Lump is very pleased to present Urd Up, an exhibition of new work by Jeanine Oleson.
The exhibition will run from March 7 - 29 and is on view Saturdays from noon - 5pm.
Urd is the name of a Norn fate who personifies relationships with the past. Urd Up is an exhibition of sculptures also relating to history- a costume made of old fur coats bought on ebay with the fur turned inward, a gold-leafed fence referring to the unicorn tapestries, and a speaker that looks like a beaver dam mixed with a craft project. Everything looks a bit like a handmade fantasy projection for physical sensation and moments in history. There are also images of the above items placed in context, so they become activated for use in situations and landscapes. The physical items become an overwrought fence for a miniature horse, a primordial person in an industrial landscape- both strange removals from the perceived originations of the objects. All of these things are imbued with a sense of humor.
Jeanine Oleson is an artist whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of performance, film/video, installation, and photographic work, often collaboratively. She attended the School of the Art institute of Chicago, Rutgers University, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Oleson has exhibited at venues including: L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; Monya Rowe Gallery, NY; Samson Projects, Boston; John Connelly Presents, NY; Bates College Museum of Art, ME; Kansas City Museum of Art, MO; Participant, Inc., NY; PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; Pumphouse Gallery, London; Art in General, NY; and White Columns, NY. Her work has been recently published in Performa: New Visual Art Performance, DAP 2007, Documenta magazine project, 2007, and LTTR V: Positively Nasty, 2006.
video credits: animation, d.colagiovanni
music, bobby gentry
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A conversation with Rich Superfine
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