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Juried Alumni Exhibition Gallery 128, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building June 27 – July 27, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, June 27 6 - 8 p.m. Juror: David R. Brigham, Ph.D., the Academy's Edna S. Tuttleman Museum Director |
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Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building June 28 – September 21, 2008 Preview Party Sponsored by Bank of America: June 26, 2008, 6 - 8 p.m. This exhibition will feature over 60 highlights from one of the world’s finest corporate art collections, the Bank of America Collection. Bank of America has generously allowed the Academy's curators to craft an exhibition that foregrounds the strengths of the collection and upholds art historical integrity. Early groundwork for the project was begun by former Senior Curator, Lynn Marsden-Atlass in 2007. Curator of Modern Art, Robert Cozzolino has determined the final shape and theme of the exhibition. Organized around a theme that underscores Bank of America’s community outreach philosophy as well as strengths of its postwar collection, the exhibition takes “reverberations” as a departure point. Among the most stunning and historically significant works in the collection are objects that focus on intense color and geometry as an organizing principle. A major multi-panel spectrum painting by Ellsworth Kelly and monumental work from Frank Stella’s Protractor series will make this explicit. However, the exhibition extends back into the early part of the twentieth-century to show antecedents and models for this approach to artmaking. Not confined to minimalism or colorfield painting, the exhibition highlights the work of artists such as Ed Ruscha, Roger Brown, Julia Fish, and Paul Wonner, who employed rigorous structures, interlocking patterns, and vibrating colorfields to support philosophically and politically complex realist paintings. The exhibition will thus highlight two parallel reverberating strains of modern and contemporary art that are usually viewed as opposites. In the Bank of America Collection they participate in a stimulating visual dialogue challenging what we know about art of the last fifty years. The result is revelatory and a testament to this extraordinary collection. Reverberations will include paintings, works on paper and sculptures by artists including Milton Avery, Roger Brown, John Chamberlain, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold, John Marin, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Jules Olitski, Faith Ringgold, Ed Ruscha, Lorna Simpson, and Frank Stella. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public programs ranging from family activities to a lecture series including some of the represented artists. Watch our website for details. |
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Peter Saul: A Retrospective Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building October 18, 2008 – January 4, 2009 Long considered the quintessential “bad boy” of postwar American art, Peter Saul (born 1934) is also among the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the only east coast stop for what will be the most comprehensive overview of Peter Saul’s career. Acclaimed as a progenitor of Pop Art, Saul was inspired to a creative breakthrough by a copy of Mad magazine and championed early on by the surrealist painter Roberto Matta. Saul has always forged his own path, creating often difficult, funny, and trenchant works addressing both personal foibles and the most important historical issues of our time. His twisted comic-book forms, artificially hot colors, controversial subject matter, and unquenchable ambition to provoke strong feelings through painting have kept him on the edges of the art world while also preserving, for over forty years, the edgy freshness of his work. The exhibition features major paintings and rarely seen drawings from 1960 to the present, including his early “icebox” paintings, several epic historical canvases critiquing American involvement in Vietnam and the Middle East, homages to Salvador Dalí and Thomas Hart Benton, satiric works poking fun at the art world’s sacred cows, and still more that painfully evoke the multiple psychic hazards of being an aging American male. A fully illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition including new critical texts on Saul’s work by Dan Cameron, Michael Duncan, and Robert Storr. Peter Saul: A Retrospective is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Dan Cameron; coordinated in Philadelphia by Robert Cozzolino. Peter Saul (born 1934), Icebox #1 (detail), 1960, oil on canvas, 69 x 58 1/2 in., Harkey Family Collection, Dallas |
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George Tooker: A
Retrospective January 30-April 5, 2009 Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building This exhibition brings together approximately sixty paintings and drawings spanning George Tooker’s entire career. Born in Brooklyn in 1920, Tooker is among the most influential postwar American figure painters. His instantly recognizable, often mysterious imagery ranges from complex works of “social protest” such as Subway (1950; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) to an intimate series of couples illuminated within open windows. From the beginning of his career Tooker has examined profound human experiences such as love, death, aging, loneliness, joy, and grief, often combining the style and techniques of late-Medieval painting with those of European surrealism to illuminate modern experience. This exhibition, Tooker’s first museum retrospective in three decades, will provide a comprehensive examination of his place in American art and reveal the full scope of his achievement. Jointly organized by the National Academy Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Merrell and including essays by Pennsylvania Academy curator Robert Cozzolino, as well as Anna C. Chave, Thomas H. Garver, Marshall Price, Jonathan Weinberg, and Melissa Wolfe. A symposium will coincide with the exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy in order to invite new perspectives on Tooker and his place in American art. The Philadelphia presentation of George Tooker: A Retrospective is generously supported by the Richard C. von Hess Foundation. Additional support provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. George Tooker, Dark Angel (detail), 1996; egg tempera on gesso board, 24 x 19 inches, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Henry C. Gibson Fund |
