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14/2/2013

Four exhibitions

Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA

Jean Helion: A Painter's Journey in Life and Art
Friday, February 15, 2013 - Saturday, May 25, 2013

French painter Jean Hélion (1904 - 1987) was a leading figure in the Paris art world in the 1930s, associated with the best abstract artist of his time. Yet he had vital roots in Virginia, including a studio in Rockbridge Baths. This unique exhibition tells the story of this artist in 18 works from local collections that span nearly 50 year, a story told from the point of view of guest curator (and painter) Bill White, himself one of the most important artist in the state.

The show maps a man's journey from Paris, to New York then to Rockbridge Baths, where Hélion settled with his American wife from Richmond. It is a dramatic life story that includes being a prisoner of war during World War II for two years, then escaping, The paintings and drawings on view also reveal his visual journey from abstract art to painting figurative images that depict life on the streets of post-War Paris, a later style that White links to a revival of realist art in later twentieth century painting. Hélion's struggle between abstraction and representational art has inspired scores of artist to this day, including the show's curator.

This exhibition is curated by Bill White, Professor Emeritus in Drawing, Painting, and the history of Modern Art, Hollins University. The works in the show are drawn from a prestigious regional collection, with an additional important loan from the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University in Roanoke. Organized by the Taubman Museum of Art.

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John Cage: The Sight of Silence
Friday, February 15, 2013 - Saturday, May 18, 2013

As part of a national 2012 celebration of John Cage's centennial year, the Taubman presents John Cage: The Sight of Silence, featuring over 60 watercolors and works on paper created at the Mountain Lake Workshop in Blacksburg, Virginia. Best known as a groundbreaking composer, musician, and avant-garde thinker, Cage (1912-1992) was also a prolific visual artist who wove Eastern philosophy with elements of chance as a way to free up the creative process. With additional handwritten musical scores, illustrated notations, and videos of performances also on view, the exhibition provides insight into one of the twentieth century's most unconventional and influential artists.

Additionally, in the spirit of Cage, the exhibition was installed using Cage's "chance operations" approach, allowing the throw of the dice determine where works were to be hung on the walls.

This exhibition is co-curated by Ray Kass, Taubman Adjunct Curator of Southeastern Art, and Marshall N. Price, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum and School, New York, NY. A hardbound publication by Kass - The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete Watercolors - accompanies the show, with essays and recollections that explore Cage's method of "chance operations" as well as his writing, music, and theater.

Image: John Cage, New River Watercolor, Series I (#3), 1988, watercolor on parchment paper, 18 x 36 inches, courtesy the John Cage Trust at Bard College, NY.

John Cage: The Sight of Silence is sponsored in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, Roanoke Arts Commission and the City of Roanoke.

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50 Great American Artists
Friday, February 15, 2013 - Saturday, June 1, 2013

Continuing its multi-year focus on American art history, the Taubman Museum of Art presents 50 Great American Artists, a distinguished collection of works that represent some of the best artist from the nineteenth century to the present. Spanning a 135-year period, the 50 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures on view feature key individuals and movements that continue to have an impact on artists and audiences to this day, be they familiar celebrated masters of little known innovative figures whose art deserves a second look.

Included in the group are textbook classics like James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, and Andy Warhol, as well as vital modernists that sometimes are overlooked, like Charles Demuth and Charles Burchfield. Pieces range from slice-of-life scenes (Robert Riggs, Larry Rivers, Janet Fish) to abstraction (William Baziotes, Gene Davis, Richard Diebenkorn) to the images that walk the line between the two (by such artists as Maurice Prendergast, Romare Bearden, and Jennifer Bartlett). 50 Great American Artists offers everyone a chance to experience a ranage of approaches and unexpected pairings across time that encourage one to rethink art history genres, and appreciate the skill, diversity, and vision that embodies the history of art in America.

Presented in partnership with the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Virginia (who is celebrating their 50th anniversary), this project was supported in part by loans from a number of prestigious museum collections, including objects from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

50 Great American Artists is curated by Michael Preble, Curator, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, with additional curatorial support from David Mickenberg, Taubman Museum of Art. Organized by the Peninsula Fine Arts Center and the Taubman Museum of Art, the exhibition is made possible in part by support from Ferguson Enterprises, the Norfolk Southern Corporation, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Taubman Museum of Art, along with ongoing support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Image: Thomas Hart Benton, The Cotton Picker, c. 1943, tempera on Masonite, 22 231/2 inches, collection of the Taubman Museum of Art, acquired with funds provided by the Horace G. Fralin Charitable Trust 2004.001.

This exhibition is made possible in part by support from Ferguson Enterprises, the Norfolk Southern Corporation, WDBJ 7, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Taubman Museum of Art, along with ongoing support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Time and Indeterminacy in John Cage's Legacy: Tyler Adams and Sabine Groschup
Friday, February 15, 2013 - Saturday, June 1, 2013

John Cage's legacy is far-reaching and profound, inspiring artist around the world with his expansive approach to the artistic process and his unique ability to incorporate music, language, dance, and the visual arts in his experimental practice.

This show features video and film works by two leading-edge artists, each engaging the music of John Cage in different ways. In Performing Silence (2009), Tyler Adams (b.1980, Los Angeles) brings together 25 found YouTube videos of people "playing" Cage's famous 4'33", a piece comprised of three movements in which the performers are instructed to remain silent. The second work (JC{639}), is by Austrian artist and filmmaker Sabine Groschup (b.1959), an ongoing - and continually reforming - documentary film about the extraordinary 639-year-long-performance of Cage's ORGAN2/ASLSP in a church in Halberstadt, Germany. The film involves 89 scenes whose sequence is determined by chance operations. This is the United State's premiere of Groschup's work, and was "conducted" for the show by Ray Kass, Adjunct Curator of Southeastern Art.

Organized by the Taubman Museum of Art, and curated by Ray Kass, Adjunct Curator of Southeastern American Art.

Image: Jean Hélion, Tete (Head), c. 1943, gouche on paper, 25x20 inches, private collection.

Taubman Museum of Art
110 Salem Avenue SE, Roanoke, VA 24011
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