Dancing with the Dark
dal 28/1/2011 al 28/5/2011
Segnalato da
28/1/2011
Dancing with the Dark
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick
Prints by Joan Snyder 1963-2010. This retrospective displays the extraordinary range of Snyder's distinctive graphic achievement. A pioneering feminist artist who was championed early in her career, Snyder has infused her works with physical energy and vibrant color to express deeply personal experiences. Over 110 prints will be featured in this exhibition. On february 23 'Embodied Memories: The Work of Trauma in Art', a symposium accompanying the show 'The Later Work of Boris Sveshnikov'.
Dancing with the Dark: Prints by Joan Snyder 1963-2010, the first retrospective of the artist’s prints, displays the extraordinary range of Joan Snyder’s distinctive graphic achievement. A Rutgers alumna, nationally-noted painter, and 2007 MacArthur Fellow, Snyder has developed a powerful body of work that explores aspects of nature, humanity and identity. A pioneering feminist artist who was championed early in her career, Snyder has infused her works with physical energy and vibrant color to express deeply personal experiences. For over 45 years, she has created remarkable prints full of passion and zeal, in addition to her widely acclaimed paintings; over 110 prints will be featured in this exhibition. Her adventurous, if unorthodox, approach to printmaking challenges traditional uses of graphic media. Snyder restlessly combines different print techniques, then varies them with painterly applications of color ranging from melancholy darks to sensuous hues to shocking accents. The visual eloquence and vigorously applied techniques in the resulting prints, which are full of confessional and memorializing iconography, invite engagement with their raw emotional power.
This major exhibition presents rare uneditioned prints, unique hand-colored monoprints, and outstanding examples of editioned prints with selected variant impressions or working proofs. The exhibition ranges from Snyder’s earliest woodcut portraits, executed during her student years, to “hot off the press” prints. Many of the images and variant proof impressions are borrowed from the artist; other works are from the Zimmerli Art Museum’s collection or from other museums and private holdings.
This exhibition will be accompanied by the first illustrated monograph documenting Joan Snyder’s prints, with essays by Faye Hirsch, the noted contemporary arts writer and senior editor at Art in America, and Marilyn Symmes, the exhibition’s organizing curator and the Zimmerli’s Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts and Curator of Prints and Drawings.
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Embodied Dreams: The Later Work of Boris Sveshnikov
DuBrow Gallery untill Apr 10, 2011
This exhibition is the second part of a retrospective exhibition of Sveshnikov’s paintings and drawings from a span of over 30 years. Falsely accused of subversive activity while an art student in Moscow, Sveshnikov was sentenced to eight years in a Siberian labor camp. His life became a lesson in perseverance and survival. Whereas the first part of this exhibition presented works created during the artist’s internment, this installment centers on the art produced after his release and subsequent rehabilitation. The exhibition is organized by Allison Leigh-Perlman, a Dodge Lawrence Fellow at the Zimmerli.
February 23, 2011 / 2:00 to 5:30pm
A symposium accompanying the exhibition
Embodied Memories: The Work of Trauma in Art
The symposium contributes to the emerging field of study on trauma and collective memory. It is organized in conjunction with the exhibition about Soviet dissident artist Boris Sveshnikov, who was imprisoned in Siberia and whose work was deeply affected by this experience. The symposium brings together leading figures from a variety of disciplines to investigate the relationship between traumatic memory and art production. By representing such fields as sociology, history, psychology, Russian studies and art history, the speakers explore how art provides a vital link between the past and present for individuals whose lives were affected by trauma.
The speakers are:
Kristine Stiles, Professor of Art History, Duke University
Jochen Hellbeck, Professor of History, Rutgers University
Marianne Hirsch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Allison Leigh-Perlman, Zimmerli Dodge-Lawrence Fellow and Curator of the Exhibition, is the moderator.
Image: Joan Snyder, Oasis, 2006, Color digital print with screenprint, hand-colored with prismacolor. Gift of the Brodsky Center. Photo by Bryan Whitney
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