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Fall 2009
Exhibitions
and dates are subject to change
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September 19th– December 31st
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #351, 2000 |
Slightly Unbalanced
This exhibition will survey works by artists who have repeatedly focused on neurosis of various kinds in their work, using themselves and the people around them as fodder for their investigations. During the past fifteen years, inspired by the work of several prominent older artists, a younger generation has been exploring he peculiarities of the human psyche in their video works, installations, photographs, paintings, and drawing.
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September
19th - December 31 st,
2009
Robert Gwathmey
Tobacco Farmers, 1947
Collection of Lynn Barstis Williams
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Imprinting the South: Prints from the Collection of Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb
From etchings to relief prints, lithographs and a few serigraphs, this exhibition primarily focuses on Southern subjects from the 1920s to the 1940s with some prints from the etching revival period of the 1880s as well as some works from the contemporary era.
A former Auburn University library faculty member, Lynn Williams began collecting these images for her research. Williams and Goldfarb have made an effort to acquire prints exposing both positive and critical views of the South. The beauty of the South is demonstrated in this exhibition through scenes of landscape, architecture, worship and entertainment, while the critical perspective focuses mainly on race. Charleston, S.C., and New Orleans, L.A. , are highlighted because of the distinct architectural characteristics of both cities. Some of the artists included are Robert Gwathmey, Alfred Hutty, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner and W. R. Locke.
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Septermber 19th - December 31 th
Warhol Polaroid
self-portrait from 1975
(c) The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the
Visual Arts |
Being
Andy Warhol
This exhibition features a cross-section of snapshots and Polaroid images taken by Warhol in the 1970s and 1980s. The photographs depict rare and intimate glimpses of Warhol's life and the people he encountered in his studio or at social gatherings.
The exhibition is made possible by a bequest through the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Note
to Museum Colleagues: Plans are under way to make the exhibition
available for travel to other venues in the future. For more
information write director@louisiana.edu. |
Dates to be announced
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. |
Dates to be announced
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Architecture and Design
Bachelor of Industrial Design
Bachelor of Interior Design
Bachelor of Architecture, and Bachelor of Fashion Design
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January 22nd – April 17th
September, 2005
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Living in three Centuries: the Face of Age, photographs by Mark Story
Artist Statement:
The photographs for this portrait series were taken in various locations around the world between 1987 and 2005.
The Gerontology Research Group estimates there are 250,000 centenarians (people 100 years and older) currently living in the world. In rare instances, people live to 110 years and beyond, inspiring a new demographic label: supercentenarian. The Gerontology Research Group, through rigorous investigation of records, acknowledges about 65 supercentenarians, and estimates that about 350 are alive worldwide today.
The idea to photograph people who have lived in three centuries evolved over the course of the project. First, I was simply interested in taking portraits of people who appear worn beyond their years by living extraordinarily hard lives. Those experiences drew me to centenarians, and on to supercentenarians and their stories.
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Contemporary
Chinese Neo-Pop (under development)
Astonishing
transformations have occurred in China bringing this once
introverted country to an apex of world attention. As a rising
protagonist on the world stage, China’s recent economy,
urban developments, manufacturing boom and new found openness
to publicity,
have lifted this once secretive society to one of optimistic
exposure and embrace of all things once forbidden. While it
is still not
a country which embraces democratic thought, China has exploded
in the number of artists working with new artistic vocabularies.
In this provocative exhibition, works by as many as ten contemporary
artists will be shown merging the visual vocabulary of East
and West while challenging our expectations of China in the
21st century. Organized by the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University
Art Museum. |
Hand on Shoulder
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Ultra-Realistic Sculpture by Marc Sijan
Inspired by Michelangelo's David and intrigued by the instinctive and sensitive way Michelangelo treated the human form, Sijan took this attention to details of anatomy to a new level creating figures which seem ready to begin breathing at any moment. Sijan has described his artistic intention as follows: “I want to give it life so it doesn't come off rigid. I'm trying to create energy and motion without showing a great deal of action … a natural very fluid look. I'm making my art believable, it goes beyond the physical to the inner spirit and soul of the person.”
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Bayou
Tech, 56" x 96 inches, Oil on Canvas
Bayou Tech, 56" x 96 inches, Oil on Canvas |
Hunt
Slonem: On the Bayou Part-time Louisiana resident, Hunt Slonem will exhibit his most
recent works which are based on the alluring landscape of Louisiana.
Slonem resides in New York City for much of the year, though often
seeks the romance, mystery and tranquility he finds in Louisiana.
With a home located on the Bayou Teche, Slonem has immersed himself
in the slow, sleepy and exotic locale of the rural south.
In
his new works, made specifically for exhibit at UAM, Slonem
wraps 9 x 9 foot paintings around a 5500 sq.
ft. gallery. Unlike
his images of rabbits, birds, and tigers, Slonem turns his eye
to the striking flora and fauna of southwestern Louisiana. His
imagery and style lie equally on the continuum between abstraction
and representation, mimicking a surrealistic character that pervades
rural folklore. Working with the same sumptuous texture and movement
of his previous paintings, Slonem’s new direction captures
the bayou’s edge as it winds through high grasses and rice
fields, or the thick, lush, and languid lines of Live Oak trees.
Slonem’s interest in Louisiana began when he attended Tulane
University in the early 1970s. Having lived in Hawaii, India, and
Managua, Nicaragua, as a foreign exchange student, Slonem has maintained
a love of tropical birds and vibrant color. It’s not surprising
then, that he should fall in love with the land which famous
ornithologist John James Audubon once explored while recording
numerous examples
for his legendary illustrations in Birds of America.
Slonem has been recognized with more than 250 exhibitions including
international exhibits in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San
Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo,
Cologne, Tokyo and Hong Kong. His paintings are found in more than
eighty museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American
Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC, New Orleans Museum of Art, and the
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum.
Note
to Museum Colleagues: Plans are under way to make the exhibition
available for travel to
other venues in the future. For more information write director@louisiana.edu.
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WILLIAM A. HUNTER, Kinetic
Rhythms #1277, 1997,
Gift of Jane and Arthur Mason,
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina |
Turning
Wood Into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection
Organized by Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Turned-wood objects
embody a provocative combination of the natural and the manmade.
The dialog between an artist and the wood on the
lathe is a balancing act between precise control and the forces of
chance, a collaboration of hand, machine, mind, and matter. Indeed,
the allure of a turned-wood piece resonates from the intersection
of the material’s inherent beauty and the turner’s mastery
of technique, concept, and form.
The exhibition
features the work of forty artists from around the world, including
Stephen Hogbin, Po Shun Leong, and Hans Weissflög.
The collection encompasses the work of the 1960s with influential
artists such as James Prestini, Bob Stocksdale, Rude Osolnik, Ed
Moulthrop, and Mel Lindquist, as well as the next major group of
turners to emerge: David Ellsworth, Mark Lindquist, and others playing
a strong role in shaping the international field of woodturning.
This exhibition is curated by Mark Richard Leach, Founding Director
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Selections from the Permanent Collection
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Olympia,
Untitled,
Oil on canvas |
Cuban
art, Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
The
exhibition will focus on that which serves as
a source for all of Latin American art – its spirituality.
It will engage the visitor as they view, participate in, watch
and listen to the roots of Cuban culture from its sources in
Africa, Asia, Spain, China, and indigenous culture. Cuban art
today embraces
and visualizes the very nature of the Cuban soul. This is the
subject of Ajiaco. Their art combines the tales of the Orishas
of Africa
with Chinese calligraphy, the environment and feminist issues.
The formats change, the materials vary, but the element that
remains constant between the Cuban and Cuban-American artists
is a commitment
to the visualization of the syncretistic mix that is Cuban
culture.
Organized by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT, the
exhibition is guest-curated by Gail Gelburd, Ph. D., a Professor
of Art History and Criticism at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Dr. Gelburd has been conducting research on Cuban art and artists
for over 15 years. She has lectured in Cuba, Taiwan, Korea, South
Africa, Australia, England, and Wales, and at such major institutions
as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn
Museum, College of William and Mary, Williams College, Chicago
Art Institute, and Springfield College.
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Mid-Century
Design
This exhibit considers the philosophical explorations and realizations
of legendary architects and designers working in the mid-20th century.
An emphasis on technology, form, production, and sustainability
will be shown through objects and writings by Paul Rudolph, Buckminster
Fuller, as well as noted designers such as Arne Jacobsen, Charles
and Ray Eames, and Russel Wright. Illustrating the transition from
early modernism of the so-called International School to Postmodernism,
the philosophies and objects presented in this exhibition offer
insights for 21st century discourses relative to sustainability,
technology, social engagement, and ultimately how design affects
individual lives.
The exhibition, Paul Rudolph: the Florida Houses organized by
Joseph King and Christopher Domin will comprise one aspect of the
trio: architecture, philosophy, social function. Objects designed
by Fuller as well as those designed for mass consumption and sold
by companies such as Herman Miller, Dansk, and Rosenthal will complete
the other two aspects.
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