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21/9/2002

Three exhibitions

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield

Yuken Teruya
Early Acclaim
Fifty Years of supporting the New : The Charles H. Carpenter Jr. Collection



Yuken Teruya
September 22 - December 31, 2002

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that Yuken Teruya has been selected as the recipient
of the Aldrich Emerging Artist Award for 2002 by the curatorial staff of the Museum. This award is given to an artist
whose work exhibits bold innovation, exciting originality, clear direction, and serious dedication. As the 2002 recipient,
Teruya will exhibit his work in a solo exhibition opening September 22 at 4 pm.

The Emerging Artist Award is administered and the recipient selected by the curatorial staff of The Aldrich Museum,
which includes associate curator Jessica Hough, assistant director Richard Klein, and director Harry Philbrick.
Beneficiaries of the award, which has been presented by the Museum since 1997, receive a cash prize of $3,000. This year,
for the first time, the artist will be given the chance to exhibit at The Aldrich-a tradition the Museum plans to continue.
The exhibition will be Teruya's first solo show. Previous winners have included Roxy Paine, 1997; Paul Henry Ramirez,
1998; Bonnie Collura, 1999; John F. Simon, Jr., 2000; and Claire Corey, 2001.

Born in Okinawa and a resident of New York, Yuken Teruya approaches each project with a keen sense of the
environments he inhabits. His work often traces the link from nature to consumerism, as well as actively borrowing from
both traditional and contemporary sources in his art making. In recent exhibitions, including The Aldrich Museum's Model
World, Teruya drew from his urban New York surroundings, producing constructions crafted from the simple and banal
materials of fast-food paper bags that are transformed into fragile trees. Isolated within their own environs, these
small-scale trees are made from the very paper walls they inhabit.

Appearing in this exhibition will be a work titled youi, youi (Tying Together), which appeared in the 2002 Vision of
Contemporary Art (VOCA) in Tokyo. In this hybrid work, Teruya uses the traditional Japanese craft of bingata, an
Okinawan technique of stenciling on cloth to create a kimono. Upon closer inspection of the images, parachutes and
airplanes are juxtaposed with chrysanthemums and flowing water, fusing tradition with contemporary political tensions in Okinawa.


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Early Acclaim
September 22 - December 31, 2002

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art will look back at the five outstanding artists who have received the Aldrich
Emerging Artist Award over the past five years in an exhibition opening September 22, 2002. In celebration of the award's
success in identifying important artists early in their careers, the previous award recipients have been invited to show new
work in Early Acclaim: Emerging Artist Award Recipients 1997 - 2001. This exhibition will include work by past award
recipients Roxy Paine (1997), Paul Henry Ramirez (1998), Bonnie Collura (1999), John F. Simon, Jr. (2000), and Claire
Corey (2001). Chosen by the curatorial staff of the Museum, the Emerging Artist Award is given annually to one artist
whose work exhibits bold innovation, exciting originality, clear direction, and serious dedication.

Claire Corey marries the world of digital technology to the more traditional art form of painting in her full-color digital
abstractions. The swirling colorscapes printed on watercolor paper seduce the viewer with an immediate rush of color, line,
and form, demonstrating the artist's facility with digital technology as well as her love of painting.

Using intricate computer programs, John F. Simon, Jr. makes moving "paintings" that operate on wall mounted screens.
Characterized by patterning and symmetry, the results are mesmerizing non-repeating compositions. Although his use of
technology is cutting-edge, his artistic sensibility is grounded in the early modernists such as Piet Mondrian and Paul
Klee.

Paul Henry Ramirez uses sensuous abstract forms, playful lines, and pools of color to create his appealing paintings and
works on paper. A sense of pushing, squeezing, and pulling is evoked through the shapes of the colorful amorphous
forms. The paint, although still and dry, often seems to be animated like a cartoon, evoking movement on the surface of the
canvas.

Brightly colored and fragmented objects are assembled by Bonnie Collura to create distorted, slumped, and mutated
sculpture, completely detached from our reality. Borrowing from a wide variety of literary and culturally disparate
references spanning Greek mythology to Pop culture, Collura comments on the recycling of universal cultural myths
throughout history.

Roxy Paine explores growth and change in nature with man-made materials. His life-like, unsentimental, and often satirical
sculptures of mushrooms, fungus, flowers, and grasses are made using painstaking methods and man-made materials in
order to reproduce that which is found in nature.

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Fifty Years of supporting the New :
The Charles H. Carpenter Jr. Collection


September 22 - December 31, 2002

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art announces the opening of Fifty Years of Supporting the New: The Charles H.
Carpenter, Jr. Collection, on September 22, 2002. The exhibition features highlights from the collection of New Canaan
resident Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. and includes artwork by such important artists as Jackson Pollock, Theodoros Stamos,
Jean Dubuffet, Mark Tobey, Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt, Myron Stout, Richard Stankiewicz, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg,
Andy Warhol, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Alan Shields, Robert Colescott, Richard Baker, Paul Bowen, Alan Johnston,
Janine Antoni, Spencer Finch, Alicia Henry, Glenn Ligon, Fred Tomaselli, Polly Burnell, Dove Bradshaw, and Bob
Mitchell.

Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. has been a first-rate collector for more than 50 years, assembling a world-class art collection that
rivals those in the nation's best modern and contemporary art museums. An important resource to the Museum, Carpenter
was a member of The Aldrich's Board of Trustees in the late 1970s and is a long-time resident of New Canaan,
Connecticut. This exhibition marks the last time the collection will be publicly displayed. Following the exhibition at The
Aldrich, the works in the collection will be dispersed to various arts institutions across the country.

Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. began collecting art objects in 1945, including Tiffany silver, Shaker furniture, and most notably,
modern and contemporary art. Carpenter discovered affinities between these otherwise disparate objects, living
comfortably with his many collections. In particular, Carpenter's early acquisitions of works by Pollock (1949), Reinhardt
(1956), Franz Kline (1956), and Warhol (1964), helped to establish him as a prescient investor and knowing collector of
contemporary art not yet tested by time.

Born in a small West Virginia town in 1916, Carpenter grew up in a house where art and music were important. Carpenter
attended the University of Virginia, worked as a chemical engineer during World War II as a requirement of the West
Virginia draft board, and then pursued a doctorate at The University of Pittsburgh. In 1943, Carpenter married Mary Grace
Winnett, a Pittsburgh native and fellow art lover. The young couple's passion for art collecting was fueled by their
proximity to the Carnegie Museum of Art, and a friendship with an important Pittsburgh art collector, G. David Thompson,
who guided their first acquisitions.

Through the years, Carpenter's approach to collecting was characterized by a sharp focus on new and emerging artists,
frequent visits to New York's art galleries, and important personal relationships with artists. Several of these relationships
have spanned decades, as is the case with Dine, Reinhardt, and Shaw. In some instances, Carpenter's patronage of artists
took more unusual forms, as was the case when he paid the rent for Oldenburg's New York studio space in exchange for
works of art.


Image: Yuken Teruya, youi, youi (detail of kimono), 2002
Pigment, hemp
Courtesy of the artist

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