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Exhibitions, Summer 2008
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Sedentary Pleasures For more than four decades UVA alumnus Dr. Irwin Berman (MD '62) has explored a variety of artistic practices and media. This exhibition presents a selection of his stools, designed as art statements. Whether he chooses to manipulate photographic properties or transform wood, metal, plastic and glass into surprising forms, Berman pushes the boundaries of a material's flexibility, achieving results that can range from elegant formal sculptures to playful and challenging three-dimensional forms. Humor and deep reflection coexist in ironic, playful, and deeply serious ways. The dynamic tensions and topical references call on viewers and sitters alike to question our ecological, ethical, and sexual beliefs and practices. This exhibition is made possible by Arts$.
Highlights from the Black Maria Film Each year the Virginia Film Festival brings a much
anticitpated film society program featuring works
from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. William Wylie: Carrara William Wylie, photographer and associate professor in the McIntire Department of Art, has worked over seven years making photographs and shooting video in the spectacular marble quarries of Carrara, Italy. The 2008 video pieces are meditations on the workers and the work involved in everyday activities within the quarries. Using High-Definition video to record the passing of time and the processes involved in moving, cutting, and hauling the massive marble blocks, these videos capture the essence of the labor and life of the cavatori (stonecutters) as well as the machines that they use to dismantle the mountains. Wylie is debuting these films at the Museum. The exhibition opens in conjunction with the second annual Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph.
LOOK HERE Speed Drawn from the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, LOOK HERE Speed explores artists' use of “motion” in their work. Featured in the exhibition are a variety of pieces, ranging from paintings to sculpture and mobiles. In addition to exploring the ability to literally depict or more subtly convey speed and motion in a particular piece, the exhibition also examines the dialogue between an artist's intention and the viewer's perceptions, such as whether an artist intended a brush stroke to give the appearance of being made slowly or quickly. Among the works featured in the exhibition are James E. Butterworth's 19th-century painting A Racing Yacht on the Great South Bay, Jacob Lawrence's 1943 watercolor Subway—Home from Work, and a 20th-century Eshu dance hook made by a Yoruba artist.
LOOK HERE Speed organized from VMFA is sponsored by SunTrust with generous support from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Additional support provided by the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation, the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Exhibitions Endowment, the Fabergé Ball Endowment, the Fabergé Society, and The Council of VMFA.The exhibition at the University of Virginia Art Museum is supported in part by the J. Sanford Miller Family Trust.
Charlottesville Collects Drawn from the Museum's growing collection of Tibetan objects, the exhibition, organized by Elena Pakhutova, the 2007-08 Luzak-Linder Graduate Student Fellow, responds to the interest in our academic and Charlottesville communities in Himalayan art and culture. Featured in the exhibition are selections from the Museum's fine collection of Tibetan tangkas.
Exhibition made possible with the support of Arts$. Mutual Attraction In this small grouping selected from a trove of choice photographic images held by the University of Virginia Art Museum, attraction is the essential and often explicit ingredient. As these examples suggest, attraction becomes beauty when it is reciprocated. Some subjects openly court the photographer¹s gaze with their own good looks, while others respond to each other or themselves in situations made for us, strangers they will never know. Included in the exhibition are works by Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Burk Uzzle and William Wylie.
John Toole John Toole arrived in Albemarle County in 1825 to attend the University of Virginia. His studies were short lived as he found painting far more interesting. His career as a prolific itinerant portrait painter spanned over 35 years and today his images offer a peek into the lives of middle-class Virginians. The exhibition, drawn from more than forty paintings and drawings that comprise the collection as well as his extensive archive that together makes up the John Toole Memorial Trust, offers a rarely seen glimpse of the way in which an itinerate painter earned his living. The exhibition is organized by Christopher Oliver, an art history graduate student and Museum intern.
Exhibition made possible by the John Toole Memorial Trust of the University of Virginia Art Museum. |
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