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UVaM in the news November 2011 Idea, Put 3D objects at your visitors fingertips: UVaM on the iPad, November 29, 2011 Hopi doll with painted headdress springs to life, spinning under my finger tips on a new iPad app from the University of Virginia Art Museum (UVaM). The delightful app presents 19 different objects in 3D, to spin and zoom, providing an immediacy that rivals seeing an object in real life. In fact, it's better in many ways than peering at an object through a protective case because the objects can be spun through a full 360°, view under bright lighting, at high resolution. October 2011 The Hook, Make it classy! How the Renaissance codified a style by Laura Parsons, October 27, 2011 Repeat after me: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite—anyone who's taken high school Latin knows these are the five types of columns used in Roman architecture. Right? Wrong! As the University of Virginia Art Museum’s current exhibition, "Variety, Archeology, and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice," shows, Roman builders were much more imaginative than later architectural experts, like Palladio and Vignola, would have us believe. August 2011 New York Observer, Jennifer Farrell Named Curator of Exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum, by Andrew Russeth, August 30, 2011 The University of Virginia Art Museum has tapped scholar and curator Jennifer Farrell, who has a long history of working at institutions throughout New York and New England, to be its new curator of exhibitions. Ms. Farrell comes to the museum from the New York-based Nancy Graves Foundation, which maintains the archive of the late sculptor and painter Nancy Graves and makes grants to artists. Before joining the Nancy Graves Foundation, Ms. Farrell served as a fellow and then assistant curator of prints, drawings and photography at the Yale University Art Gallery in in New Haven, Connecticut. June 2011 The Hook, Getting into shape: Printmakers color perceptions, June 27, 2011, by Laura Parsons "How to Steal like an Artist" is a humorous blog post by Texas-based artist Austin Kleon, full of down-to-earth advice for creative types. (Google it, if you're not reading this online where there's a hyperlink). Kleon writes that artists by nature constantly cop others' ideas and methods, adapting them for their own use. Examples of just such beneficent thievery are currently on view in the University of Virginia Art Museum's exhibition, New Images, New Techniques: Abstraction in British Screenprints circa 1970. The seven artists included in the show not only appropriated silkscreen printing from the realm of industrial and commercial production, but they also snagged ideas from previous abstract artists as well as from each other. Drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, the works displayed reveal the dynamic interplay of ideas between artists working in close proximity, as they used the same medium to delve into relationships between shape and color on the page. May 2011 Newsplex.com, WCAV-TV, CBS 19. Beth On the Bright Side: Flower Exhibition, by Beth Duffy, May 5, 2011 Many flower arrangers have been busy at the University of Virginia's Art Museum, as they work to prove the grounds around the museum can be just as artistic as what is inside. March 2011 Richmond Times-Dispatch, "Arts Briefs: U.Va. museum is as close as your computer," by Times-Dispatch Staff, March 6, 2011 The University of Virginia Art Museum has launched an online collection catalog. The collection provides access to more than 1,000 images and accompanying catalog information for browsing, studying, research and teaching.
The Hook, "That '70s show: U.Va. paints an era," by Laura Parsons, March 1, 2011, issue #1009 No artist works in a vacuum. Whether consciously or un-, artists constantly respond to a host of factors: exposure to other artwork, the immediate environment, ideas discussed with creative types, political, economic, and social circumstances, etc. But inevitably, what seems radical at the moment will fade to unremarkable in the future. So, reinvigorating the zeitgeist of the era was curator Andrea Douglas's challenge in organizing Excavating New Ground: American Art in the 1970s, currently on view at the University of Virginia Art Museum. Douglas selected 13 paintings and one sculpture from the Museum's permanent collection, most of them monumental in size, to reflect the "big" East Coast ideas of the period, which included a both/and rather than either/or approach to formerly clear-cut divisions like realism and abstraction, sculpture and painting. Read more > February 2011 NBC 29 WVIR-TV, "Henry Moore's Seated Woman," February 22, 2011
CBS 19 WCAV, "'Seated Woman' Statue Now Sits Along Rugby Road," February 22, 2011 On Tuesday, a statue entitled Seated Woman 1958-1859, was installed along Rugby Road in Charlottesville. The statue which now sits in front of the University of Virginia Art Museum is an indefinite loan from the Henry Moore Foundation. Read more >
The Hook, Southern (dis)comfort: Photographers expose their roots, February 21, 2011, by Laura Parsons "You don't have a southern bone in your body," a friend recently remarked. She meant it as a compliment, but the truth is I consider myself quintessentially southern. I was born in Lexington, to parents who were both native Virginians, and although I don't identify with bigots, moonshiners, or those who pine for the Confederacy, I do love storytelling and the melancholia of faded beauty. The South is fundamental to my identity, just as it is for the six artists with work in the UVA Art Museum's exhibition, Southern Views/Southern Photographers. Each contributor offers a distinct aesthetic, but what Shelby Lee Adams, William Christenberry, Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Pamela Pecchio, and Jeff Whetstone share is a sense of place and a nostalgic impulse that finds beauty in the not-always-pretty way history— both personal and impersonal— unfolds
Cavalier Daily, "Framing Andy Warhol: U.Va. Art Museum shows collection of portraits and snaphsots by post-modern master" by Sofia Economopoulos, February 10, 2011 "Old-school glamour made its appearance at the University's Art Museum Jan. 14 when photography by Andy Warhol came to town. The Andy Warhol Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pa. gave more than 28,000 photographs to 200 museums across the nation. The pieces on display include the Polaroids that later became his iconic, four-color silk-screen portraits and snapshots from Warhol's photographic diary (1975-1980). The photos are striking in their variety of style and technique and prominently feature both celebrity and unknown subjects." "These photographs are like a time capsule of New York in the 1970s and '80s," curator Matthew Affron said of the collection. "My favorites are pictures of celebrities like Debbie Harry and Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz... Many are spontaneous, candid snapshots of places he was and the people he saw there, and then there are the studies for portraits, so it's this back and forth between the posed and the unposed." Read more >
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Art and Alzheimer's at U.Va. by Carolyn Mooney, February 3 , 2011 "Art engages the senses and makes few demands. It is easily appreciated for its own sake. It humanizes." "That helps explain why more art museums are developing programs for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. The University of Virginia Art Museum recently began offering its Eyes on Art program, a collaboration with the Alzheimer's Association's Central and Western Virginia Chapter. Docents trained to deal with Alzheimer's patients lead them on small-group tours when the museum is closed to the public. The tours, which also include family members and care givers, typically focus on three paintings that encourage discussion and self-expression: The Lobby by Willard Franklin Midgette; Jerdon's Courser, a Frank Stella abstract; and Our Good Earth, a World War II poster by John Steuart Curry." Read more > January 2011 WVTF Public Radio, "Warhol in Charlottesville" by Sandy Hausman, January 26, 2011 The artist Andy Warhol was known for thumbing his nose at the world of fine art while putting ordinary objects and portraits of celebrities on museum walls. Sandy Hausman reports on a little-known collection of Warhol’s works on display at the University of Virginia's art museum. Listen >
NBC 29 WVIR-TV, "U.Va. Art Museum Get Kids Jammin For Art" by Dannika Lewis, January 24, 2011 The University of Virginia Art Museum is handing over the canvas and encouraging families to enjoy art together.
NBC 29 WVIR-TV, "Warhol Photographs on Display at UVA" by Derick Waller, January 19, 2011 He is known as the creator of iconic 1960s pop culture paintings, but now you have a chance to see another side of Andy Warhol. Read more or watch video > December 2010 Daily Progress,"Industrial Resolution" by David Maurer, December 27, 2010 It was a time when people throughout Europe were being uprooted from ancestral soil like market produce, and driven by invisible forces to large cities. The rule of nobility was being ended by mob decree and the busy work of the guillotine. Towering factory chimneys were beginning to spew smoke rising from the fires of progress. And within the human mind was flowering the profound notion of equality, staying the knee from bending to any king of flesh. Feeding this roiling sea of change were the surging rivers of awakening science and technology. Like the cave painters and stone etchers before them, the artists and writers had to document and make sense of it all. As Irish poet, writer, and physician Oliver Goldsmith shows us in his 1770 poem, "The Deserted Village," they performed magnificently. The works of some of the greatest painters and writers of this period, roughly from the last part of the 18th century to the first part of the 19th century, are presented in a new exhibit at the University of Virginia Art Museum. Titled From Classic to Romantic: British Art in an Age of Transition, it runs through Jan. 30. "This exhibition is about one of the most tremulous periods in Western history — the age of revolutions," said Bruce Boucher, director of the Museum. "You start about 1750 with neoclassicism, which was the last age to have an unalloyed admiration for the classical world. Read more >
The Hook, The 2010 visual vault, December 23, 2010, by Laura Parsons Despite an economic climate that challenged both art practitioners and purveyors, the Charlottesville art scene made several memorable leaps in 2010. Man, oh, Man Ray: In late August, the University of Virginia Art Museum made another impressive showing by hosting the traveling exhibit, "Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens," which examined how Man Ray's photographs of African sculpture shifted it from being regarded as anthropological evidence to being considered fine art. Numerous lectures and a film series augmented the rich and informative main exhibition, which included not only images by Man Ray and his contemporaries but also the objects they photographed.
WCAV CBS-19, Popular U.Va. Sculpture on the Move. December 14, 2010 The popular "Tripes" sculpture at the University of Virginia was removed from grounds Tuesday morning. Crews used a crane to lift the heavy piece of artwork that has been part of the landscape in front of Peabody Hall since last year. U.Va. Vice Provost of the Arts, Elizabeth Turner, says the 12-foot sculpture is being moved to Manassas to undergo much needed repairs. Read more >
WVIR NBC-29, U.Va. Sculpture Removed for Preservation Work. December 14, 2010 One of the sculptures outside of the University of Virginia's Peabody Hall was carefully removed early Tuesday morning so it can get some much needed sprucing up. Crews removed the Alexander Calder sculpture known as Tripes. It is now headed to northern Virginia for some preservation work. Read more > November 2010 WHTJ. Charlottesville Inside out, Season 4, #403, November 25, 2010 Visit the newly renovated U.Va. Art Museum with host Terri Allard, a local performing artist and native daughter of the region, who introduces viewers to the people and places that define the Charlottesville area. Watch now > September 2010 Daily Progress. "Ray of Light," by David Maurer, September 21, 2010 The horrific bloodletting of World War I helped ignite fires of artist expression that continue to impact human sensibilities to this day. From the ghastly ferment arose literary voices such as those of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. And at the vanguard of the visual arts was Emmanuel Radnitzky — known to the world as Man Ray. The contributions of this American artist, who spent much of his career in Paris, have become increasingly appreciated since his death in 1976. Before the start of the new millennium, ARTnews, the oldest and most widely circulated art-related magazine in the world, listed Man Ray among its top 25 most influential artists of the 20th century. Although the Philadelphia-born artist thought of himself primarily as a painter, he also was an exceptional fashion and portrait photographer. This latter pursuit is the focus of the University of Virginia Art Museum’s major exhibit, Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens. Read more > August 2010 The Hook. "Out of Africa: Man Ray adjusts the lens," by Laura Parsons, August 30, 2010 "Wow" is not a word you see on this page. So pay attention. Almost a year ago, University of Virginia Art Museum director Bruce Boucher announced the museum would be hosting a Man Ray show this fall. Since then, I’ve been counting the days. But I had no idea what a rich and enriching experience awaited me. Wow. More than an exhibition about Man Ray’s work, Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens examines a zeitgeist moment in 20th century art and culture in the U.S. and Europe, when African art shifted from being regarded as anthropological evidence to being celebrated as fine art worthy of appreciation and imitation. The show includes over 50 photographs by Man Ray, as well as images by his contemporaries (e.g. Walker Evans and André Kertész), displayed alongside the actual African pieces photographed. In addition, the exhibit presents African-inspired artwork from the period, along with books, magazine articles, and catalogues. Read more >
Cville. "The Bayly [U.Va. Art Museum] looks at African art through Man Ray's lens, Into the art of darkness" by Andrew Cedermark. Issue #22.34 :: 08/24/2010 - 08/30/2010 "From the entrance on Rugby Road, the event itself looked to have wilted in the 92 degree afternoon heat; it was move-in day at U.Va., and students rode past the Bayly Building in the backs of pickup trucks, beside their mattresses and couches. Theirs was a trip into the heart of darkness worthy of a new exhibit at the U.Va. Art Museum, Man Ray: African Art and the Modernist Lens, which was celebrated with a low-key three hour community event dubbed Man Ray Day." Read more >
Newsplex.com. "Man Ray Day Celebrates New Exhibit, African Culture," August 21, 2010 The University of Virginia Art Museum held a festival dedicated to African culture Saturday, in celebration of their new exhibit "Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens." Festival-goers made their own African art, watched tribal performances and took tours of Man Ray's exhibit, featuring his work. Bruce Boucher is the museum's director. He says Man Ray was influential in shedding light on African art. "What strikes me about these images is their potency," Boucher explains. "They are the perfect balance between what's real and abstract." The exhibit will run until October 10. Watch video >
NBC29.com. "Exhibit at U.Va. Art Museum Focuses on Man Ray," August 21, 2010 Watch video > July 2010 Unbeige. "University of Virginia Art Museum to Celebrate 'Man Ray Day'", by Stephanie Murg, August 10, 2010 "Dry those suspiciously globular tears! Man Ray Day is almost upon us. On Saturday, August 21, the University of Virginia Art Museum will celebrate the artist (almost exactly 120 years after his birth as Emmanuel Radnitzky) in conjunction with its current exhibition, Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens, which explores the role of photography in changing the perception of African objects from artifacts to fine art." Read more >
WVTF Public Radio. "Man Ray exhibit at U.Va.", by Sandy Hausman, August 9, 2010. "The University of Virginia Art Museum has a new exhibit on display. It is an interesting mix of photographs and African sculptures centered around the work of modern artist Man Ray." Listen >
The Hook. "Face forward: Uncapping the lens of vulnerability," by Laura Parson, July 26, 2010 I thought I knew what I was in for when I visited the University of Virginia Art Museum’s exhibit, "The Figure in Photography, 1995-2005," curated by museum ace Andrea Douglas and art prof William Wylie. But instead of images examining the human body, what I found was a show highlighting work by eight photographers who, with one exception, explore context-specific, color portraiture. Each artist dismantles the artificial veneer of formal portraits to disclose the vulnerability of the subjects in front of the lens. Several of the show’s photographers work within particular environments, like Dave Woody, who shoots adolescent boxers before and after bouts. Read more > March 2010 UVA Today. "Conservator Gives Museum's Statues a Spring Cleaning Before Exhibit," March 24, 2010 Adam Jenkins, a visiting conservator, spent several days in residence at the museum repairing two early 20th-century sculptures that will go on display April 2, along with other key pieces from the University collection. "Pause in a Dance" (1908), by German sculptor Reinhold Begas, is a cast bronze statue of a sensuous, partially veiled female dancer holding a tambourine. The museum purchased the sculpture last year shortly after Bruce Boucher became its new director. Boucher had been familiar with the piece and coveted it. " 'Pause in the Dance' struck me as a major acquisition of a major piece of sculpture by a contemporary of Rodin," Boucher said. "Thomas Fortune Ryan" (1910) is a marble bust by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Read more > February 2010 Richmond Times-Dispatch. "Exhibit at U.Va. explores ageless expression," February 21, 2010 "Dorothy C. Wong gazed at an inscrutable face of stone and smiled. Like countless others before her, the associate professor of East Asian art at the University of Virginia was experiencing the silent communion of thought and soul-stirring sensation that great art can inspire. A thousand years and more have passed since skilled hands, using mallet and chisel, shaped the sacred countenance of Buddha and other Buddhist deities now on display in the main gallery of the U.Va. Art Museum. Wong is the curator of "Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University." Read more >
UVA Today. "A Little Bit of Russian Comes to U.Va. Language Students," by Jane Ford, February 10, 2010. "A group of Russian language students arrived at the University of Virginia Art Museum Thursday just as the museum was closing for the day. They were there for a special tour in Russian led by museum volunteer docent Daria Kolchugina. The tour, which lasted a half hour, provided an opportunity for the students, who were from a number of different advanced language classes, to hear someone other than their teacher speak Russian. "It's a chance for the students to test their language skills outside the classroom and see how they can handle conversations," said assistant professor Lilia Travisano, who heads the Russian language program in the College of Arts & Sciences. "It's is a rare chance to hear a native speaker. It's a little bit of Russia coming to our students." Read more >
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Virginia Living Blog."Yes, It's Art," February 3, 2010. "The first time U.Va. displayed an Alexander Calder "stabile," in the 1950s, the work was met with questions and dark Cold War insinuations. Now, the university is exhibiting another Calder installation on its historic grounds, and the reception is entirely different. Since last March, a new presence has dominated one of the most heavily trafficked spaces on the grounds of the University of Virginia. The monumental, 12-foot-tall Tripes, which now stands near the entrance of Peabody Hall, was made in 1974 by renowned American modernist Alexander Calder. Even today, it resonates with echoes of conspiracy and innovation that once characterized its maker and his oeuvre. It also recalls the once notorious and now mostly forgotten presence of another Calder sculpture, Steel Fish, which briefly stood in front of the Rotunda more than 60 years ago. " Read more > January 2010 Charlottesville Daily Progress. "The Spirit Inside the Stone," by David A. Maurer, January 24, 2010. On a recent morning Dorothy C. Wong gazed at an inscrutable face of stone and smiled. Like countless others before her, the associate professor of East Asian art at the University of Virginia was experiencing the silent communion of thought and soul-stirring sensation that great art can inspire. A thousand years and more have passed since skilled hands, using mallet and chisel, shaped the sacred countenance of Buddha and other Buddhist deities now on display in the main gallery of the U.Va. Art Museum. For the next two months, these ancient works of art will fill the large room with an unseen radiance that can be felt as surely as a human touch. Wong is the curator of "Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University." This is the final stop in the two-year exhibition tour organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia. Considered one of the most notable collections of Chinese stone sculpture in the nation, it includes 21 monumental sculptures that include steles, full figures, heads of divinities and funerary objects. Some of the pieces are more than 2,000 years old, and together they provide a visual time line of the spread of Chinese Buddhist culture along the extensive Asian trade routes known as the Silk Road." Read more > October 2009 Gabriel Laderman: Unconventional Realist, exhibition news The Wall Street Journal, "Murderers and Metaphors: And other shows worth seeing in New York's galleries," by Lance Esplund September 2009 WINA, Charlottesville-Right Now: Bruce Boucher (Director of the U.Va. Art Museum), Charlottesville Podcasting Network, September 22, 2009
Cavalier Daily, "Calder Mobile Debuts at Art Museum: 'Untitled 1976,' on loan from the Calder Foundation, decorates entryway of Bayly Building," by Virginia Terwillinger, September 17, 2009 The mobile added a missing piece to the decor, Art Museum Director Bruce Boucher said. The Untitled Calder mobile links together two of the museums signature pieces located in the entrance gallery: Frank Stella's Jerdon's Courser, an abstract piece, and Willard Midgette's Lobby, a realist painting. All three works are pieces from the 1970s, the peak decade of the abstract movement, Boucher said. The black mobile in the museum is made of sheet metal, rod and wire and moves with changing air currents generated by the museum's new climate control system.
WVTF Public Radio (Roanoke VA), "University of Virginia Art Museum", September 15, 2009
Charlottesville Daily Progress, "New research revives exhibit on Jefferson's Academical Village," by Olin Ericksen, September 12, 2009 Now an updated exhibit opening today at the newly renovated UVa Art Museum offers Cornett and others a chance to see how it got that way. Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece delves deep into the UVa founder’s crown jewel in design and building. Read more >
Charlottesville Daily Progress, "U.Va. Art Museum reopens today," By Olin Ericksen, September 12, 2009
WVIR NBC-29, "U.Va. Art Museum Re-opens," September 11, 2009
WCAV CBS-19, "U.Va. Art Museum Reopens After Renovations," September 11, 2009
WVTF Public Radio (Roanoke VA), "U.Va. Art Museum Re-opens," September 10, 2009
C-ville, "New Alexander Calder piece bound for U.Va.," by Brenda Fitzgerald, September 8, 2009 August 2009 The University of Virginia Magazine. "The Vision for the Village: Jefferson's drawings show multiple influences and singular genius" by Maura Singleton, Fall 2009. "Jefferson died in 1826 believing he had created a leading educational institution and an architectural landmark. Posterity continues to reappraise it; perceptions have obviously improved, though speculation over the sources of his ground plan—the gardens at Marly-le-Roy? The Hôtel de Salm in Paris?—has become an absorbing hair-splitting exercise among historians and critics. "For U.Va. architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson, ongoing research has strengthened his conviction that the University was, ultimately, Jefferson’s own design. In the U.Va. Art Museum’s current exhibit, "Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece, 1817-1826," his rule breaking reveals itself. A reprise of a 1993 exhibit, the current show explores the genesis of the University through a trove of original drawings, Jefferson’s correspondence with colleagues and newly gleaned information about the construction process." Read more > July 2009 UVA Today, "Polishing a Gem: U.Va. to Renovate and Expand Bayly Building", July 2, 2009 The decision to proceed with a renovation of the building - designed in the Beaux Arts style by former architecture dean Edmund S. Campbell - reflects the first phase of the University's commitment to transform and expand the space into a world-class academic museum, said Elizabeth Hutton Turner, vice provost for the arts. "The Bayly is a fine and beautiful gem in need of extensive polishing," she said. "The second phase of the museum's renaissance will include a four-level, 20,000 gross-square-foot addition on the west side of the existing building, currently in the planning stage. The project will support the museum's teaching and exhibit missions by providing expanded exhibit and teaching galleries; improved art storage, art handling and art conservation facilities; additional offices; and other support spaces." June 2009 Albemarle, June-July 2009 March 2009 Richmond Times Dispatch, "U.Va. show focuses on French art" by Roy Proctor, March 29, 2009
The Cavalier Daily. "TJ's New Director, Incoming director of the University Art Museum hopes to promote a well-rounded education with increased museum functionality," by Sara Danver, March 26 2009 "Being the director of a small art museum is a bit like being a small town doctor," University Art Museum Bruce Boucher said. "You end up treating the whole family — and everyone is related to Thomas Jefferson." Mr. Jefferson led the recently hired Boucher to the University by way of a book he wrote about Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect whose work greatly influenced Jefferson's designs. Sound familiar? Think "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Neither Bacon nor Palladio, however, can take all of the credit. Boucher already had a vested interest in the University through family connections, including a brother who graduated from the Medical School. Read more >
WMRA, 103.5 FM. Wednesday, March 11 Download mp3 > February 2009 UVA Today. "Library Staffer's Twin Passions Yield Valuable Online Tool to Study Ancient Coins," February 18, 2009
WVTF. "Art Activity," February 3, 2009 January 2009 The Cavalier Daily. "U.Va. Art Museum gains new director" by Bethel Habte, Cavalier Daily Senior Writer; January 30 2009
C-ville. "UVA announces new director " by Chiara Canzi, January 29, 2009
Daily Progress. "UVA announces new director" by Daily Progress Staff, January 29, 2009
Daily Progress. "Drawing on the political climate" by David Maurer. January 18, 2009 November 2008 The Hook, November 6, 2008, "The future was then: Hideyo Okamura channels El Lissitzky" by Laura Parsons October 2008 The Cavalier Daily, October 2, 2008, " U.Va. Art Museum presents: El Lissitzky", by Jeannette Williams March 2008 Falls Church News-Press on William Christenberry: Site/Possession, at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center: "Context is a funny thing. It can color and flavor things in unexpected ways. The current offerings at Katzen Arts Center feature the art of southerners, or those that had their roots in the South. ....What seems curious and quirky at first becomes more and more menacing as the space pinches down on you. There you find hooded portraits of Bubbas too brave to show their faces." February 2008 Organized by the University of Virginia Art Museum William Christenberry: Site/Possession, this exhibition features 50 of Christenberry's rarely-exhibited drawings and the Klan Room Tableau, which includes over 200 works, is on view at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center through May 11, 2008. The Eagle, American University's independent student voice reported: "Artist William Christenberry is no stranger to odd looks from store clerks. During a tour of his new exhibit "Site/Possession," which opened Tuesday at the AU Museum, the artist recounted one such instance. "'I have to ask, sir,'" Christenberry recalled the cashier saying, "'What are you going to do with 20 G.I. Joe dolls?' And I said, 'You wouldn't believe me if I told you.'"It is hard to believe what Christenberry can do with those dolls, or paint or ink for that matter." Read more > November 2007 From The Washington Post, "Southern Trees: Rooted in His Memory". Washington artist William Christenberry, 70, a persistent man, has revisited Hale County, Ala., at least once a year for more than half a century. His exhibition "Site/Possession" is on view in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia Art Museum... its photographs and sculptures and abstract-expressionist drawings, which are expressionist but not entirely abstract -- evoke that hardscrabble, kudzu-covered, rural Southern place... Read more > |
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