Kluge-Ruhe › Aboriginal Art Collection
Tjumpo Tjapanangka, Kangaroo Dreaming at Lake Mackay, 1991 ©2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Viscopy, Australia
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yam Dreaming of My Country, c.1991 ©2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Viscopy, Australia
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Family Bush Tucker Dreaming, c.1972 ©2009 Aboriginal Artists Agency, Sydney
Jimmy Angunguna, Marrchila (Saltwater Crocodile), 1996 ©2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VISCOPY, Australia
History in the Making: Aboriginal Art in the Twentieth Century
History in the Making: Aboriginal Art in the Twentieth Century presents a chronological look at Aboriginal art from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition features paintings on bark and canvas, sculpture and limited edition prints from Kluge-Ruhe Collection. It explores the changing perceptions of Aboriginal art over the last seventy years, from the early production of bark art for outsiders, to the international recognition of contemporary Aboriginal art in the fine art world.
ill-like - VERNON AH KEE
January 24 – April 8, 2012
Vernon Ah Kee’s exhibition ill-like includes drawings and text works exploring issues of race and racially motivated violence in conjunction with Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s birthday and Black History Month in February. Vernon Ah Kee is a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanyi, Yidinjii and Gugu Timithirr peoples. He is known for his candid explorations of contemporary and historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people in Australia. His work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, and he represented Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Kluge-Ruhe on Grounds
UVa Art Museum has included two large paintings by Johnny Liwangu from Ramingining, Northern Territory in their current exhibition and a selection of 17 objects including sculpture, bark paintings and musical instruments in the Object Study Gallery.
Past Exhibit – Reko Rennie: Patternation
Patternation was a collaborative installation project by artist Reko Rennie, curator Stephen Gilchrist and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art collection. Reko Rennie is a Melbourne-based visual artist who uses stencilling on public and private walls to question notions of cultural invisibility, national identity and public surveillance. Sampling Aboriginal symbology with secular imagery, his work embodies the easy duality of contemporary Aboriginality. The title Patternation refers not just to the repeated geometric patterns that often appear in Rennie’s work but to the rhetoricized and contrived “patter” of Australian national discourse which promises so much, but enacts so little.
Browse Gallery Panorama
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Exhibits
January 24 - April 8, 2012
Vernon Ah Kee’s exhibition ill-like includes drawings and text works exploring issues of race and racially motivated violence in conjunction with Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s birthday and Black History Month in February. Vernon Ah Kee is a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanyi, Yidinjii and Gugu Timithirr peoples. He is known for his candid explorations of contemporary and historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people in Australia. His work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, and he represented Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale.