Mapping: Memory, and Motion in Contemporary ArtCurated by Sarah Tanguy
In the Beitzel, Righter, and Project Galleries
October 3, 2010 – January 9, 2011
One of the oldest forms of nonverbal communication, maps have been drawn since prehistoric times as a means of wayfinding and charting one’s place in the world. Today, with the advent of GPS and Google Maps, they have infiltrated our daily life more than ever before. In an era of global culture, artists are increasingly exploring maps as both image and cipher. This exhibition takes a look at current map-based works that represent actual locations – real and imagined. Encompassing the stars, the body, the land, and the built environment, it explores various strategies that artists are using to track their subjects, distilling them into art objects and activities that choreograph location through time and space. The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, sculpture, video, and a live web broadcast.
Uri Shulevitz: How I Learned Geography In the Learning Center
October 3, 2010 - January 9, 2011Based on Uri Shulevitz’s childhood memories of World War II, Caldecott Honor Book “How I Learned Geography,” illustrates how a map and his imagination took young Uri far away from his hunger and misery.
Drawing Conclusions: Modern Masterworks on PaperCurated by Ellen Keiter
In the Beitzel and Righter Galleries
January 23 - May 1, 2011This exhibition features 65 original works on paper by 58 artists, with an emphasis on Minimal, post-Minimal, and Conceptual art, all drawn from the Wynn Kramarksy collection. Since beginning his collection in the early 1960s, Kramarsky has amassed over 3,000 artworks, with a primary focus on drawing. Kramarsky’s interest is in process and the relationship that exists between an artist and his or her medium. Drawing Conclusions celebrates the beauty of a fluid line, the energy of scrawling shapes, and the power of a single band of color. The artists employ many objects in the service of mark-making - including ash, wax, string, tape, tea, and tar – and experiment with various drawing surfaces. Works on view range from an intimate, five-inch drawing by Jay Kelly to the larger-than-life work of Jill O’Bryan. Artists include Carl Andre, Stephen Antonokas, Mel Bochner, Mark di Suvero, Roni Horn, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, and Christopher Wilmarth, among others.
Young Artists 2011
In the Beitzel and Righter Galleries
May 15 - May 22, 2011
The 27th annual exhibition of artwork by high school seniors features works selected by art teachers from the Museum’s member schools. The students themselves design the invitation, plan and install the exhibition alongside museum professionals, and arrange the opening reception. Young Artists affords them the opportunity to learn about every aspect of exhibition development and implementation.
