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Exhibition: The Minox & the Big Shot -- Andy Warhol’s Photography (1970-87)
Exhibition runs September 23rd through December 13th, 2009. Opening: Wednesday, September 23rd, 5-7:30 pm. The University Gallery proudly presents its acquisition of 100 original Polaroid photographs and 50 original black and white gelatin silver prints dating from 1970 to 1987 granted through the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. These photographs were given to the University Gallery as part of an unprecedented gift in honor of the Andy Warhol Foundation's 20th anniversary. The aim of the Photographic Legacy Program is to provide greater access to Warhol's artwork and process, and to enable a wide range of people from communities across the country to view and study this important yet relatively unknown body of Warhol's work.
An obsessive photographer, Warhol took more than 100,000 photographs between 1976 and 1987, most with his SX70 Polaroid camera (which Polaroid kept in production just for Warhol) and black and white prints with a pocket-sized Minox 35 mm camera. Some Polaroids served as source material for large, silk-screened portrait paintings for which Warhol is famous. These photographs range from celebrities to unidentified acquaintances or patrons. The black and white snapshots offer a fascinating glimpse of the people and places of Warhol's life. In the end, some of the most captivating photographs are not the celebrities, but rather those of everyday objects and people.
As the University Gallery’s first Curatorial Fellow, Kathleen Banach (M.A. candidate in Art History ’09) will work in consultation with the staff of the University Gallery and art history professor Mario Ontiveros to focus her research on these photographs. She will be the first to study this relatively unknown body of Warhol’s work.
Seen in conjunction with this exhibition is CONNECTING THE DOTS….. THE WARHOL LEGACY: TOM FRIEDMAN, ELLLEN GALLAGHER, VIK MUNIZ, ROB PRUITT, an exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice.
Check the University Gallery’s website for related panel discussions, guest speakers, and film screenings.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2-5 pm. Wheelchair accessible. Free parking evenings and weekends.
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Exhibition: Connecting the Dots….the Warhol Legacy: Tom Friedman, Ellen Gallagher, Vik Muniz & Rob Pruitt
Exhibition runs September 23rd through December 13th, 2009. Opening: Wednesday, September 23rd, 5-7:30 pm.
An exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice, demonstrating how Warhol’s legacy continues to influence and shape the content of the work of a new generation of artists. Rather than look strictly at artists who have been stylistically influenced by Warhol, this exhibition focuses on the work of four leading artists where the Warholian impulse is more conceptual and subtle.
Tom Friedman transforms mundane consumer products into playful yet meticulously crafted artworks of almost obsessive intricacy. Friedman’s art is characterized by its attention to process and use of modest, ephemeral materials. Friedman also displays a sly, almost scientific interest in systems of representation. Works in the exhibition will include the serial sculpture 9 Lives and two digital prints, Dollar Bill (2000) and Mandala (2008), commissioned by University Gallery and UMass Art Dept.
Repetition and revision are central to Ellen Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines such as Ebony, Our World, and Sepia. Her medium of printmaking, immersed in ideas about process and the mechanics of transformation, echoes some of Warhol’s themes. However her aesthetic strategy differs from her predecessor in its autobiographical dimension and focus on the issue of racial identity, while at the same time suggesting a more formal reading with respect to materials, processes, and altered states.
Vik Muniz defies traditional concerns over appropriation and authorship to reveal the power of images in our collective memory. Creating images made of dust, chocolate sauce, sugar, or thread, his work is informed by media and popular culture. This exhibition will include The Best of Life (1989 – 2000), a portfolio of ten Memory Renderings, which are photographs of drawings he drew from his recollection of photographs from Life magazine between 1936 and 1972.
Rob Pruitt’s work is rooted in a pop sensibility and a playful critique of art world structures. His conceptual projects have encompassed sensational staged events as well as simple gestures that promote possibilities for creativity in everyday life. Pruitt’s work is always characterized by an incisive humor and exuberant visual flair. This exhibition will focus on iPruitt (2008), snapshots taken with his mobile camera.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2-5 pm. Wheelchair accessible. Free parking evenings and weekends.
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Framework V: Restoring the Boundaries
“Framework V showcases the results of the ongoing work by museum staff and students to conserve frames for the Smith College Museum of Art’s painting collection. In this apprenticeship program, now in its fifth year, Smith College and other Five-College students are trained by Chief Preparator William Myers and Associate Director David Dempsey in the techniques of frame conservation. The featured frame in this installation was created in the appropriate Pre-Raphaelite style for Meditation (1873), a portrait by John Everett Millais and a recent gift to the collection. Through Nov. 1.For more information about this exhibition, museum hours, and other museum informatin, see: www.smith.edu/artmuseum/.
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William Kentridge: What Will Come
This installation features the debut of an important new addition to the SCMA collection, “What Will Come” (2006), a major film by the South African artist William Kentridge. One of the most innovative aspects of Kentridge’s work is his hand-drawn films. “What Will Come” takes its title from a Ghanaian proverb: “What will come has already come," a sentiment reflected in the imagery of the film, which speaks to the range of conflicts that have marked modern human history. This work also displays Kentridge’s keen interest in optics. The film is projected from the ceiling onto a round metal table which bears a polished circular column in its center. The images are reflected on the surface of the column, which corrects the perspective of the drawing for the viewer. The images circumnavigate this column, changing form as they move to a haunting musical track. Through Dec. 31. For more information abou this exhibition, museum hours and other museum information, see www.smith.edu/artmuseum/.
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Exhibit: The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art
Exhibit runs 9/14-1/29. Showcasing the works of local authors/illustrators: Leonard Baskin, Kathryn Brown, Corinne Demas, Patricia MacLachlan, Richard Michelson, Dennis Nolan, Jane Yolen.
Info: 545-3971 or http://tiny.cc/picturebook. Gallery hours follow library hours: open Saturdays 9 am-9 pm, then Sunday from 11 am onward, open 24 hours a day through Friday (www.library.umass.edu/hours.html). Handicap accessible.
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Exhibit: All Roads Lead Back to Amherst
Exhibit runs 9/15-12/11. Nature photographs by Annie (Fournier) Tiberio Cameron ’73, UMass Amherst.
Opening reception 9/15, 4:00-6:00 pm, refreshments.
Handicap accessible. More info: www.library.umass.edu/news
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Unconquered by Flames: The Literary Lights of Yaddo
An exhibition celebrating the talents of poets Lola Ridge, Sylvia Plath '55, Constance Carrier '29, and scholar Newton Arvin. Contact: Karen Kukil 413-585-2908. For library hours and other information, see: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/.
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Unconquered by Flames: The Literary Lights of Yaddo
The exhibition focusing on Yaddo, the legendary artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, that hosted the most illustrious music composers, writers and visual artists of the 20th century. On view through October. For more information contact Karen Kukil: kkukil@smith.edu, 585-2908, or visit
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/fyi/606.htm.
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Kindergarten Artwork
Students in EDC 231, Foundations and Issues of Early Childhood Education, taught by Susan Etheredge, explored how young children think and learn. They examined the teaching/learning relationship in the early childhood classroom using the Lyman Conservatory as a laboratory. In the investigation of leaves and bulbs, students used inquiry-based teaching with kindergarteners of the Campus School. Together they engaged in a collaborative inquiry through observing, collecting data, sketching, photographing, generating metaphoric language, and learning scientific language to describe the leaves, reading and writing poetry, keeping journals and notebooks, and contributing to a small exhibition at the Plant House on their inquiry and study. Through October 9, 2009.
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Botanical Architecture: ARS285 Student Projects
Students in Smith College's Introduction to Architecture: Language and Craft studio (ARS285), taught by Jim Middlebrook, were asked to reinterpret the spatial language of flowers. Each student chose a flower from the Botanic Garden. She photographed this flower and analyzed its spatial character in terms of certain organizational principles. The student built a model to abstractly re-present the flower according to this visual ?language.? Finally, these forms were appropriated by the student in the design of a theoretical pavilion for the display of flowers next to Paradise Pond. On display in the Church Exhibition Gallery are the photos, models, and pavilion designs. More information is online: http://www.smith.edu/gardens/exhibits/exhibitions.html
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Lecture/Reading
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Faculty Colloquium Series 2009-10: Monica Ringer
On Friday, Sept. 25, from noon to 1 p.m., the Faculty Colloquium Series for 2009-10 is sponsoring "Religion and the Citizen: Theorizing Modernity in the Middle East" presented by Monica Ringer, assistant professor of history and Asian languages and civilizations. This event will take place in the Mullins Room, Lewis-Sebring Commons.
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“Constitutional Decay in a Time of Financial Crises: Lessons from TARP and AIG”
Richard Epstein, professor of law at the University of Chicago, will speak about the current financial crisis and the constitutionality of bailouts. Epstein is the author of more than 14 books and has written on numerous legal and interdisciplinary subjects. He also served as editor of "The Journal of Legal Studies" and "The Journal of Law and Economics." At present, Epstein is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics.
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Lectures on Jungian Psychology.
“The Canny Feminine: Problem Solving Through the Union of Eros and Logos.” Karen A. Smyers, Ph.D., IAAP. One of the most dangerous characteristics of our time is a stark splitting that occurs at psychological, social, and cultural levels. From within these polarized fundamentalisms, problem solving often works through confrontation and aggression, paying little attention to the relationship between the parties or the dignity of the other. What I have termed “the canny feminine” is a way of solving problems that preserves eros. It works through indirection, humor, and suggestion in a conscious modality, but one open to the gifts from the unconscious. Stories from the Bible to contemporary popular culture show that this modality is deeply human and has always been with us. I argue that it is another model of individuation. Karen A. Smyers is a graduate of ISAP- Zürich and has a private practice in Northampton. Sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Association of Jungian Psychology. Open to public, no charge, but donations accepted. For more information, contact: Karen Smyers, President of WMAJP, (413) 320-9748; email: email@karensmyers.info.
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“Obama and Israel: A Sobering Report”
Glen Lewy, the national chair of the Anti-Defamation League, will speak about the United States’ relations with Israel under the Obama Administration. As national chair, Lewy has traveled extensively to meet with foreign and domestic leaders; with respect to the Middle East, he has met with the President of Egypt, the King of Jordan, the King of Saudi Arabia, numerous foreign ministers from the region and all of the most recent Prime Ministers of Israel. Lewy is the senior managing director of Hudson Ventures. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York Historical Society and is vice chair of the Board of Directors of the SEED Foundation.
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