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Exhibitions
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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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Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists
Composed of more than 90 vibrant and dynamic ceramic sculptures, this exhibitition features leading contemporary Japanese women artists working within and transforming a medium traditionally associated with men. The accompanying catalogue, with an essay by ceramics specialist Todate Kazuko, Chief Curator at the Tsukuba Art Museum (Ibaraki, Japan) and artists biographies by Wahei Aoyama, provides the first in-depth study of the phenomenal rise of women ceramic artists in Japan. Oct. 9-Feb. 28, 2010. See http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/general/ for Museum hours and other information.
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Witness: an installation-- exhibit of ceramic sculpture by Beckie Kravetz.
Exhibition runs Tuesday 10/13 – Friday 10/30/2009. Reception, Saturday 10/17, 2-4 pm.
The Student Union Art Gallery proudly presents an exhibit of ceramic sculpture by Beckie Kravetz. This work is a response to tragedies, both personal and global. The crowd has gathered to watch an unknown, powerful event. The viewer becomes part of the crowd, and individual experience informs their interpretation of the event and the other witnesses.
Gallery hours are M-Th 10-5, F 10-3
Made possible by the UMass Arts Council, the GSS, and the SGA.
www.umass.edu/rso/suag
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A Plantsman in Asia
Compelling color photographs by Paul W. Meyer tell vivid stories about the importance of plants in the lives of Asian peoples. The photos were taken over a period of 20 years of plant exploration in the Far East. Meyer, a
leader in the field of plant exploration and evaluation, will be speaking at Smith Nov. 13 in conjunction with Bamboo and Blossoms: The Fall Chrysanthemum Show at Smith Nov. 7-22. The photographs will be on exhibition October 17 through December 15.
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Lecture/Reading
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Financing Life
Financing Life with Professor Randall Bartlett (Economics). Learn the basics of budgeting, managing credit and debt, taxes, home ownership, and much more essential to our everyday financial lives. The more you know the better prepared you'll be. Sponsored by Women and Financial Independence: The Smith College Center for Financial Education. Lunch provided for the first 75 attendees. For more information, contact WFI at 413.585.3653 or visit them on the web at www.smith.edu/wfi.
October 22:
Professor Bartlett will discuss the fundamentals of insurance: liability, disability, life and casualty.
October 29:
Professor Bartlett advises on what to do with savings. This will include the fundamentals of investing stocks, bonds, mutual funds; risk and return;relevant tax issues.
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"We are Marshall Bloom: Suicide, Memory, and the Legacies of the Sixties"
Part of colloquium on social change, UMass Amherst Libraries. Talk by Blake Slonecker.
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"The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London"
Presented by Adam Zucker.
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Where are we Now?: Women and American Politics
Robin Leeds, senior political strategist, organizer and advocate with more than 30 years of work in the government, labor, business and non-profit sectors. As the Obama Administration pushes for women's rights internationally under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, we will take the opportunity to assess the situation for women in the United States and to think about where we would like to see it going. Leeds will present her assessment of the current Administration's actions.
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Colloquium on Social Change: Radical Democracy and the Moral Economy of Social Change
Todd Gitlin and Raymond Mungo, renowned writers/activists.
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