Gene(sis) Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics
January 31 - May 2, 2004
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Marsden Hartley: American Modern
Marsden Hartley was a key member of America's first artistic
avant-garde. He was a leading figure in the circle of artists
and writers surrounding Alfred Stieglitz in the early decades
of the 20th century in New York. Through a generous bequest from
Hudson Walker of the collection he built with his wife, Ione,
the Weisman Art Museum holds the largest number of works by Hartley.
This retrospective will be drawn entirely from the museum's rich
collection. This exhibition opens June 4, 1997 and runs through
September 8, 1997.
Recent Exhibitions
Frank Gehry
September 6 - January 4, 2004
Twelve Years and
Thirteen Days
November 19 - December 18, 2003
Trace Evidence
May 2 - August 3, 2003
Beauty in the Box
May 17 - August 3, 2003
Almost Home
February 7 - May 4, 2003
In the Spirit of Martin
January 19 - April 6, 2003
Springsteen: Troubadour
of the Highway
September 22 - January 19, 2003
Inside Cars: Surrounding
Interiors
September 7 - December 29, 2002
Art for Life
July 9 - October 27, 2002
On the Edge of Your
Seat
April 21 - August 4, 2002
Time Take:
January 18 - April 7, 2002
New Visions:
November 18 - March 24, 2002
The Vanished Mississippi
October 7 - January 20, 2002
Bookplate Collection:
October 26 - December 31, 2001
The Don Quixote Series
August 11 - October 14, 2001
Minnesota art with a twist:
July 21 - October 21, 2001
Voyager: An Installation
by Nancy Randall
with Elisa Carlson, Ken Chastain,
and Steve Andersen
April 13-July 22, 2001
The Third
Minnesota National Print Biennial
April 29-June 24, 2001
Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities
February 23-May 27, 2001
Painting Revolution: Kandinsky,
Malevich, and the Russian Avant-Garde
January 28-April 8, 2001
Clarence "Cap"
Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone
November 12, 2000-March 25, 2001
Facing Death: Portraits from Cambodia's Killing Fields
February 10-April 1, 2001
Clementine Hunter:
From Cotton Fields to Canvas
Listening with the Heart: The Work of Frank Big Bear, George Morrison and Norval Morrisseau
Contemporary Native Art in Minnesota: Starr Big Bear, Julie Buffalohead, and Jim Denomie
A Scholar Collects: Pueblo Pottery from the Frank Sorauf Collection
Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry
Hospice care, offering physical, emotional, and spiritual assistance to terminally ill people and their families, is the subject of this unique exhibition featuring the work of five outstanding American photographers --Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Jack Radcliffe, and Kathy Vargas -- and a documentary film produced and directed by filmmakers Susan Froemke and Deborah Dickson with Albert Maysles for Home Box Office (HBO). Each project documents individual perspectives on the emotional and collaborative experience of living and working in hospice environments throughout the country. By immersing artists in the world of patients, families, and health care providers, the exhibition offers a broad public understanding of hospice experiences, goals, and benefits. Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry was organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in collaboration with the National Hospice Foundation
Building a Collection
Ceramic collections of the Weisman Art Museum
Drawing the Future
Images from the 1939 World's Fair
World Views: Maps and Art
World Views: Maps and Art, opening on Sunday, September 12. Inspired
by dramatic changes in the world in recent yearsthe
collapse of the Soviet Union, conflicts in the former Yugoslavia,
Tibet, and the Middle Eastthe exhibition examines the
complex relationships between maps and art. Maps are thought to
be objective documents, yet they are also aesthetic objects and
repositories of cultural values. Many modern artists, working
in a wide range of media, have become fascinated by the formal
richness and social significance of maps and have responded by
making works of art that build upon map imagery and map-making
strategies.
Structures of Memory
This exhibition presents new modes of depicting architecture developed
by Andrzej Piotrowski, associate professor of architecture at
the University of Minnesota. Starting with the idea that new technology
could be used not only to assist architects in the process of
design, Piotrowski uses computers to capture attributes of a building
that structure our perception of its physical form and its meaning.
Theatre of Wonder: 25 Years in the Heart of the Beast
Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern
Design
In addition to his 30-year tenure as Professor and Head of the
School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota, Ralph Rapson
has designed furniture and buildings in the modernist style of
his teachers Eliel Saarinen and László Moholy-Nagy.
This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, collects Rapson's drawings, architectural elements,
models, furniture, photographs, and video installations.
Charles Biederman
Internationally acclaimed artist Charles Biederman, born in Cleveland
in 1908, has created a particularly personal style. Educated at
The Art Institute of Chicago, he spent time in the great artistic
capitals of New York and Paris, where he mixed with European artists
such as Fernand Léger, Constantin Brancusi, and Joan Miro.
Biederman himself points to Paul Cézanne as the inspiration
for his style of artistic abstraction. Since the 1950s, he has
lived and worked in a farmhouse studio near Red Wing, Minnesota,
reflecting his desire to live close to the rhythms of nature.
Theatre of the Fraternity: Staging
the Ritual Space of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1896-1929
Theatre of the Fraternity will illustrate through photographs,
scenic backdrops, rare programs, costumes, objects, and sketches
the fantastic imagery, ritual, and elaborate theatrical productions
of the Scottish Rite, a segment of the larger Masonic movement.
This exhibition will be on tour until September 1998.
Women in the Weisman Collection: The Spirit of Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls, New York was the site of an assembly held in
1848 that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States.
The women of Seneca Falls began a social revolution that has touched
every aspect of American life. In honor of women's contribution
to the visual arts throughout the 150 years since the Seneca Falls
Convention, the Weisman Art Museum presents a selection of artworks
from its collection produced by 60 women artists, nearly one-half
of them Minnesotans. The exhibition is part of a Twin Cities-wide
series of programs and performances celebrating women in the arts
over the past century and a half. This exhibition runs from July
3 through August 30, 1998.
Metroscapes: Suburban and Urban Photography
Metroscapes joins two photography exhibitions-The Minneapolis Gateway Photographs of Jerome Liebling and Robert Wilcox and Suburban Landscapes of the Twin Cities and Beyond. Each exhibition presents urban and suburban landscapes created primarily in the Twin Cities by photographers who live in Minneapolis and St. Paul today or who lived in these cities when the work was created. The photographs document significant change and transition in this region through a focus on inner city realities prior to 1960s urban development and on the evolving nature of life in American suburbs. This exhibition runs April 11 through June 14, 1998.
The Documentary Eye
Photographs taken from the Weisman Art Museum permanent collection.
Including works by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn
that depict the effects of the 1930s Depression across America.
This exhibition opens February 14, 1998 and runs through April
12, 1998.
In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience
1930-1970
Social commentary is an important part of the history of American
art, most closely identified with the 1930s, when social realism
was the prevailing style. This exhibition, drawn from the extensive
holdings of the Schiller Collection in Highland Park, Illinois,
will consist of approximately 40 paintings and ten prints ranging
in date from 1932 to 1970. It features a range of American artists,
including Philip Evergood, Jacob Lawrence, George Grosz, Rockwell
Kent, and Ben Shahn, among others. This exhibition opens January
23, 1998 through March 22, 1998.
Indian Humor
Indian Humor will document through visual expression the contexts
of humor among Native Americans of different tribes. The vernacular
images represented in this exhibition will help both Indians and
non-Indians to redefine negative ideas and humorless approaches
to viewing Native America. The artists utilize many approaches;
artists' ideas vary from reflections of historical events, activities
of the trickster, people playing Indian, humor found in domestic
situations, and "insider" private jokes, to the comical
view of contemporary life in general. This exhibition opens September
27 through January 4, 1998
The Unseen Wanda Gag
Artist and Minnesota native, Wanda Gag, is best known for
her prints and incredible contributions to children's literature.
This exhibition, organized by the Weisman Art Museum, takes a
look at a volume of work by Gag-watercolors on sandpaper, rare
drawings, several of her oils, and her diaries-never exhibited
in the Midwest and rarely seen in a public exhibition. This new
exhibition, taken from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art and the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania,
will expand popular concepts about this important artist and her
role in the art world of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. This exhibition
opens October 26 through January 26, 1998
Buildings Celebrated-Celebrated Buildings
The Weisman Art Museum's collection includes outstanding paintings
and works of art illustrating the built environment. Works in
this exhibition, drawn from the collection, will range from photographs
by Berenice Abbott to paintings by such artists as Lyonel Feininger
and Ernest Lawson. This exhibition will be at the Wriston Art
Center at Lawrence University
in Appleton, WI from November 14 through December 14, 1997.
Critiques of Pure Abstraction
A select survey of artists who both participate in and examine
the trajectory of abstract art in the twentieth century. Works
by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Sherrie Levine, Nam June Paik,
Richard Artschwager, Jonathan Borofsky, Jasper Johns, and John
Baldessari will be included, among others. This exhibition opens
April 4 and runs through May 25, 1997.
Masterpiecework: The Louis Sullivan Owatonna
Bank
One of acclaimed American architect Louis Sullivan's most
important buildings is located in the southern Minnesota town
of Owatonna. This small exhibition presents a comprehensive look
at the development and construction of this architectural landmark.
This exhibition opens February 14 and continues until April 13,
1997
To Touch the Past : Painted
Pottery of the Mimbres People
Co-curated by two native American potters from the southwestern
United States in collaboration with J. J. Brody, this will be
the first comprehensive exhibition ever to be mounted of this
extraordinary collection of Mimbres pottery.
Kate Hunt:Clearing - new public
sculpture installation, June 1995-August 1997.
New Work : 1995 Department
of Art Faculty Exhibition - eighteen artists from the University
of Minnesota department of art faculty present there most recent
work.
Dictated by Life - paintings by Marsden
Hartley and Robert Indiana, April 14 - June 18, 1995.
Jacob Lawrence: Thirty
Years of Prints (1963-1993) - the exhibition of some 70
prints presents a retrospective of the work by this important
African-American artist.
