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Exhibition: Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection
Exhibition runs February 5-March 29, 2009.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5-7:30 pm.
In Conversation: Artist Sheron Rupp discusses her exhibition with art critic Gloria Russell. Wednesday, February 25, 5 pm.
The University Gallery is pleased to present Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection, the second exhibition in an annual series in which we invite an artist to study the permanent collection first-hand, curate an exhibition from our holdings, and integrate their own works in direct dialogue within the exhibition. Sheron Rupp's idiosyncratic selection, ranging from photographs by Jan Groover and Ralph Eugene Meatyard to prints and drawings by Judy Pfaff and Theodore Stamos, provides unexpected juxtapositions and conversations between her own works with those in the permanent collection. The exhibition also affords the opportunity to premiere Sheron Rupp's recent color photographs of formal and social landscapes.
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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Video Installation Miroslaw Balka: Gravity
Exhibition runs February 5-May 24.
Exhibition Preview: Thursday, February 5, 5 pm.
Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6:30-7:30 pm.
The University Gallery is pleased to premiere recent video works by the internationally acclaimed Polish artist, Miroslaw Balka. This is the artist's first museum exhibition in the U.S. to focus on his new video installations.
In Conversation: Thursday, February 5, 5:30-6:30 pm.
Artist Miroslaw Balka and Barbara London, curator of media, Museum of Modern Art, NY; moderated by Barton Byg (UMass Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies and founding director of DEFA Film Library)
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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Exhibit: Natural History Prints
Exhibition runs through May 3, 2009. Photos by John Green, nature photographer. For hours, call 545-1370.
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“Thin” and “Girl Culture”
“Thin” is a documentary project by noted contemporary photographer Lauren Greenfield on the subject of eating disorders. Greenfield followed and photographed a group of women in treatment at the Renfrew Center in Florida, producing color photographs and a documentary film about the women and their experiences. “Thin” grew out of an earlier body of work, “Girl Culture,” which focused on the image-obsession of women of all ages in the United States. Selections from “Girl Culture” will be displayed in an adjacent gallery to provide a context for “Thin” and expand the themes of the show. “Thin” was curated by the artist Trudy Wilner Stack and was organized by the Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas, Texas, and Greenfield/Evers, LLC. Ends April 26.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum.
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Emulation or Imitation: The Case of Dürer vs. Marcantonio Raimondi
This small-focus show presents a singularly important early stage in the emergence of the concept of the individual artist and his work in the Northern Renaissance. Dürer’s unprecedented lawsuit against the Venetian printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi, who, ca. 1511, copied his series “Life of the Virgin,” spotlights an important historical turning point in which the conception of originality was beginning to emerge as the definition of artistic creativity. Through April 19.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum.
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Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art
This exhibition celebrates the recent gift of 34 works by 22 noted Chinese contemporary artists to SCMA by Smith alumna Joan Lebold Cohen and her husband. The works provide a look into the era when Chinese artists began to throw off the restrictions of China’s 30 years of Maoist communism and reclaim their individuality. Through May 31.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 pm.\ Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 pm.\ on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 pm.\ Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum
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Exhibition-- SAND T: New Work
Exhibition runs 3/23/09-4/3/09. Reception Saturday 3/28, 12-2 pm.
Artist Talk Friday 4/3, 1-2 pm.
The Student Union Art Gallery presents an exhibition of 40 new works by SAND T. SAND T's new works on acrylic or hardboard panel use epoxy resin, graphite, and paint to create a simple visual experience with the basic elements of dot, line, surface and light, yet they suggest the abstract concepts of time, concentration, and meditative energies of motion. The physicality of "drawing the lines" and "dropping the dots" underlines the artist's fixation with chaos, the keen desire to bring order within the structural grid.
SAND T has exhibited her work in solo shows in Malaysia and the USA. She has participated in group shows in the USA, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, and her work resides in public and private art collections worldwide.
SAND T operated artSPACE@16, an award-winning non-commercial gallery in Malden, Massachusetts from October 1998 to May 2008. Her recent awards include The Malden YWCA Tribute to Women Award 2007, grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, and 2007) and the LEF Foundation (2006 and 2007). SAND T was nominated for a Commonwealth Award in 2007 for Outstanding Contributions to Arts and Culture in Massachusetts.
Artist's website: http://www.SandTworks.com
Artist's blog: http://sandtblog.blogspot.com/
Student Union Gallery, located in the Student Union Building between Earthfoods and People’s Market.
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Mongolian Art Exhibit
In conjunction with the symposium “Buddhism in Mongolia: Rebirth and Transformation” taking place at Smith March 27-29, paintings by Mongolian artist Soyolma, named Female Artist of the Year by the Union of Mongolian Artists, will be on exhibit. Runs March 18 to April 4. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/buddhism/mongolia/exhibit.php An artist's reception will be at the Arts Lounge on Friday, March 27, 5–7 p.m.
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Ingeborg Bachmann Exhibition
An exhibition of the antiwar writings of the Austrian poetess Ingeborg Bachmann. Runs March 23 to April 12. For more information, contact Joseph McVeigh at (413) 585-3406 or jmcveigh@smith.edu
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Human Trafficking Photo Exhibit
Photographs of human trafficking displayed on Chapin Lawn. Part of the South East Asian Alliance Conference on human trafficking in Southeast Asia.
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Some Things: An Exhibition by Micah Lexier
Selected works by Canadian conceptual artist Micah Lexier. Lexier sees “Some Things” as part of a new hybrid activity that is part artwork and part curatorial practice. For the past few years Lexier has presented found and collected objects in vitrines or display cases—bringing together particular groupings for particular situations.
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Tulip Mania
Anna Pavord, best-selling author of The Tulip, provides the text for this beautifully illustrated exhibit. Richly colored graphic panels tell the story of this beautiful and enigmatic flower, which ultimately becomes the object of obsession in 17th century Europe. For more information, see http://www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html. March 6 through June 2.
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