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Mobius: Stark: A Large Scale Drawing Installation by Jennifer Hicks
Hicks spent a winter week at the
C-Scape Dune Shack, which lacks heat, running water, and electricity. She
spent the days working outside, drawing the landscape and creating
performance pieces in the dunes. Then in the evening by kerosene ligh...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Lynn Geesaman Photographs: Poetics of Place
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Portland Museum of Art: James Fitzgerald in Maine
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Portland Museum of Art: Last Chance! James Fitzgerald in Maine
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University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach: Catherine Chalmers: Prey and Eat
In one series, entitled Food Chain, the images sketch with vivid intimacy, on a stark white background, scenes of a caterpillar eating a tomato, a praying mantis eating a caterpillar, and a frog eating a praying mantis. The result is humorous, sur...
NSA Gallery: Icons of Transfiguration by James Olmesdahl
Olmesdahl states “there was part of me (when making these works) that intuitively sought to explore the kinds of meaningfulness that could be generated by the unusual and unfamiliar sonorities of black and white. I became engrossed in seeking out ...
Fraser Gallery: Catriona Fraser and Malcolm Sharp: Landscapes of Scotland
Art critic J.W. Mahoney wrote about Fraser's work in the Washington Review: "The single eye of Catriona Fraser's camera has been directed toward the timeless world of her Celtic ancestors for many years ...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Humanity Refigured:
Henry Moore and Postwar British Sculpture
Dubbed Britain's New Iron
Age, the group - which included Kenneth Armitage, Lynn
Chadwick, Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows and Eduardo Paolozzi -
created expressions of anxiety and disquietude that stood in stark
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MoMA QNS: Masterworks of German Expressionism
Also featured are works by artists active after World War I, such as Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz, who found that the bold, graphic use of black-and-white printmaking perfectly suited their stark, socially critical imagery. Printmaking was of c...
Oakland Museum of California: California's Native Grandeur: Preserving Vanishing Landscapes
The evocative 19th- and early 20th-century paintings celebrate the states natural scenic and biological diversity. The exhibition portrays the states landscapes, region by region, from the stark beauty of the desert to the South Coast, which is ho...
San Diego Museum of Art: Roger Ballen: Photographs
These portraits of forgotten civil servants, their children, maids, and pets are studies of the degradation and failure of apartheid. Shot with a direct flash his poor white subjects, their personalities and their flaws, are depicted in stark reli...
Crafts Council Gallery: Pattern Crazy: Curated by Carol McNicoll and Jacqui Poncelet
Pattern Crazy features the work of over 30 UK artists and testifies to the sheer vitality and diversity of the work being made using pattern. The exhibition celebrates the resurgence of interest in pattern and also highlights the progressive thi...
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television: Luc Delahaye: Photographs
From the haunting and humanizing image of a dead,
young Taliban warrior to the tiny figures among the rubble of the Jenin
refugee camp, the works invoke grand themes. Familiar because of their
reference to 19th century war photographs and the t...
Kunsthalle Basel: Personal Plans: Twelve Current Positions in the Genre of Drawing
Works included are by: Rita Ackermann (born 1968, Budapest/New York), Anna
Ammadio (born 1963, Basel), Edgar Arceneaux (born 1972,
Los Angeles), Thomas Baumann (born 1967, Vienna),
Annelise Coste (born 1973, France/Zurich), and Andro
Wekua (bo...
Mobius: Descent of Flowers: Installation by Frank Vasello
Using the Greek myth of Persephone/Hades/Demeter as
inspiration, Descent of Flowers is an installation
exploring the themes of loss, longing and death.
Persephone, the Goddess of the Spring, di...
Delfina: Renderings: Haluk Akakce, Gareth Jones, Katja Strunz, Nicole Wermers
Haluk Akakçe’s giant wall drawing conjures up an illusionary space that both frames, and provides a centrepiece for the show. With architectural and geometric elements he creates an environment that is at once both real and imagined, taking his pa...
Helsinki City Art Museum: David Bailey: Birth of the Cool
Born in London in 1938, Bailey’s career took off in the 1960s when he began to shoot for the Vogue magazine at the
tender age of 22. He went on to become the magazine’s most prolific contributor of the decade. As a fashion
photographer, ...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Trace Murdoch: Solo Exhibition
Peering into one of the boxes the viewer will, Alice in Wonderland-like, see a maze of table legs while through another viewing slot a formal arrangement of differently coloured table tops will be visible. 15XTABLES not only displays Murdoch’s co...
Studio Visuals: Mosa Neshama McNeilly: The Journey Begins; A 15 Year - Retrospective 1987-2002
The work begins in 1987 with the stark black and white works, transitions into the densely textured monoprints, evolves into the colourful mixed media works and culminates in the ritualistic found objects installations in 2002. This exhibition is ...
McMichael Canadian Art Collection: Lawren Stewart harris: A Painters Progress
The artist moves slowly but surely through many transitions toward a deeper and more universal expression. From his particular love, and in the
process of creating from it, he is led inevitably to universal qualities and toward a universa...
Mannheimer Kunstverein raum 2: Wolfgang Pavlik: Different Image
The viewer looks at faces that withhold from being identyfied by him. Their eyes are closed or hidden by means of a shade cast on them so as to shift the other parts of the face to the centre of attention. It’s a common feature in many of Pavlik’s...
Pacific Art League: Werner Glinka: Urban Totems
“It is our pleasure to offer this exhibit of Werner Glinka’s works to the community,” said Claudia Morgan, president of the Pacific Art League. “To provide art-loving audiences with direct access to excellent emerging artists is central to the Pac...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Picasso Erotica
But, of all of Picasso’s multitudinous erotic adventures in various media, the etchings are by far his most important body of work. They are not merely numerous, but rather each is highly charged with the unbridled life force that infused all of h...
National Museum of Women in the Arts: Stunning Chronicle of Suffering and Renewal by Russian Artist
Eva Levina-Rozengolts
In her ink-drawing series Trees (1956-60), Marshes (1960-61), Sky (1960-63), and People: Plastic Compositions (1965-68),
Rozengolts relates the stark landscapes, bleak skies, and barren forests of Siberia to the people condemned to live and work the...
International Center of Photography: Ken Light: Coal Hollow
Light shows how the erosion of the coal mining industry has devastated individual lives and families in the close-knit communities of rural West Virginia. Where generations of coal miners once made their livelihood off the plentiful supply of co...
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art: Creeping Revolution 2: Bas Jan Ader (NL), Sture Johannesson (S), Silke Otto-Knapp (D), Mathilde Rosier (F), Wilhelm Sasnal (PL), Lily van der Stokker (NL), Frances Stark (US)
However, any idea that this is a return to a reactionary position must be dismissed. It is a case of maintaining both social and personal change (even revolution) as equally significant aims for contemporary art. To define the work in the exhibiti...
Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios: Andrzej Klimowski: Day for Night
Head of Illustration at the Royal College of Art, Klimowski is enthusiastic about bringing his work up to Northumberland, indeed he has produced paintings especially for this exhibition. This artistic coup for the region is due in the main to an ...
University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: Visions from the Soul: Woodcuts by Hans Friedrich Grohs
As a young master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Grohs studied under Lyonel Feininger but he left the academy in 1919 following a controversial dispute with founder Walter Gropius regarding the sacrifice of German “identity” for the increasing ...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: Distinctly American: The Photographs of Wright Morris
Morris occupies a singular position in the history of American arts and letters. Recognized as one of America?s most gifted authors, he is also respected for his photography and his pioneering work combining images and text. Morris wrote 33 award-...
J. Paul Getty Center: Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray
As muse, Miller was a rare inspiration, equally comfortable and forceful in front of and behind the camera and canvas. At the age of 19, she became a model in New York where her image, captured and composed by photographers Arnold Genthe, Edwa...
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