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Exhibitions, Fall 2008
Click on the exhibition title below to see dates and scheduled events. The "Read more" link under some listing provides additional information.
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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