Thursday, March 10, 2011 - Sunday, October 2, 2011
"Nature and the
Non-Objective Realm" is a re-installation of the Taubman’s Contemporary
Gallery based on photography, painting and sculpture by artists who are
represented in the Taubman
Museum's permanent
collection or have works that are designated as "promised gifts" to
the Taubman Museum of Art. The selection is comprised of exemplary works by
mostly southeastern artists and emphasizes the relationship between early
modern figurative and landscape traditions, and the successive development of
abstract and non-objective styles in contemporary art.
The exhibition includes works by Walter Darby Bannard,
Jake Berthot, Isabel Bigelow, Steven Bickley, Lyle Bonge (1929 -...
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Members Preview: Thursday, March 10, 2011
Lillian
Blades works with assemblage of objects and fragments in her attempt to make
sense of life observations symbolically. Components and symbols such as eyes,
empty frames, buttons, quilts and reflective surfaces like mirrors and glass
frequently appear in Blades’ mixed media wall hangings.
Beverly
Buchanan is an African American artist noted for her
exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art. She notes that
tobacco barns have played an unconscious role in her life as an artist in
making what she was calling shacks. Her focus on these shacks and houses
are meant to pay tribute to the human struggle and survival.
...
Friday, June 3, 2011 - Sunday, August 28, 2011
Members Preview: Thursday, June 2, 2011
Kiel Johnson’s works are meticulous homages to near-obsolete machines. Based in LA, Johnson embraces
his signature industrial cardboard to create objects of exacting detail, high skill from low material. Polaroid cameras, boom boxes with cassette tapes, microphones—all are made by hand to reinforce the tactile that has been lost in these times of virtual technology. The centerpiece of the show will be his life-sized faux printing press. Entitled Publish or Perish, the boxy sculpture is composed of a series of cardboard tubes along with a bank of fake batteries to “power” it, a nod to his memories of hearing his newspaper publisher father’s presses humming. His fascination with things...
Friday, June 3, 2011 - Sunday, August 28, 2011
Members Preview: Thursday, June 2, 2011
In the words of the artist:
“Language has accounted for the image, the subject and the source of my work for a long time. An academic background in comparative linguistics, applied linguistics, and Spanish and French provided a rigorous method and discipline for scrutinizing the smallest mechanisms by which language operates and for dissecting and analyzing almost invisible components of language. But academia did not furnish a sympathetic framework or audience for investigating and presenting alternative ideas about language which came from digging around in it and excavating unorthodox and previously unnoticed sub-systems which operate independently of authorized rules. Because many...
Friday, June 3, 2011 - Sunday, August 28, 2011
The Influence Project is a collaborative exhibit that gives you the power to influence a virtual work of art. The artwork will continue to change as it is influenced by its participants. Check out the progress and get started now! Go to http://influenceproject.org and Paint Your Part.
The Influence
Project is sponsored by Xcellos and
InterActive Achievement.
Friday, June 3, 2011 - Sunday, August 14, 2011
Members Preview: Thursday, June 2, 2011
For years, Tim Tate has established himself as a skilled glass artist,
and one whose work seems to draw more from tattoo art and the science lab than from the history of blown and cast objects. His latest work is a curious hybrid, an unexpected combination of craft and technology, what he calls “self-contained video installations.” Over the last three years, this Washington D.C.-based artist has attracted critical attention for his group of sculptures that look at the past through the lens of new media. These objects are intimate glass reliquaries that each contain a tiny video screen with a short looped film, along with ambient soundtrack.
Lately, these films have become for Tate...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - Sunday, August 7, 2011
Helene
Steene is an artist drawn to line, form, and color. The level of abstraction
varies in her works, but she has stated that she is always searching for inner
beauty and a harmonious balance of elements. Several of the pieces on display
were inspired by the landscape and colors of the Greek island Paros, where the artist has a home and visits
periodically. Steene works with diverse medias including oil, acrylic,
encaustic, monotypes, collage, fiber, although most of the works on view here at
the Taubman combine sand, metal,
acrylic, oil and marble dust—a media that reminds her of the white marble dusted
buildings of Greece. The saturated colors, depth of texture and...
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - Sunday, May 22, 2011
Members Preview: Thursday, March 10, 2011
These selected works speak of the
pain and grim reality of living with cancer, but also highlight the tenacity of
the human spirit. Artist Hollis Sigler was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1985
and its effects on her mind, body and psyche are honestly channeled into her
prints and paintings. Her works express raw emotions with childlike
illustrations and bright, vivid colors. Sigler thus explored serious life
struggles with a style that allowed her freedom to express her intimately
personal feelings while still reaching out with universal meanings. This
exhibition will be on view at the Taubman on the 10th anniversary of
Sigler’s passing in March, 2001. Perhaps now more...
Friday, April 22, 2011 - Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Annual Virginia Western Community College
Communication Design Show showcases the award-winning work of the area's most
creative and talented graphic design students. Virginia Western's Communication
Design program routinely produces nationally award winning designers. Presenting
200 pieces of work, this show represents the future stars of the visual
communication field. Virginia Western is extremely pleased to partner with the
Taubman
Museum this year to present
this array of wonderful work to the public. This show is free to the public.
Saturday, February 5, 2011 - Sunday, April 24, 2011
Members Preview: Friday, February 4, 2011
This exhibition features 35 contemporary quilts by the members of Quilt Art,
an international group of 22 quiltmaking artists. The group has exhibited in Japan, Canada
and across Europe, making Quilt Art:
International Expressions here at the Taubman the premier exhibition in the
United States.
The artists are highly informed about traditional quilting techniques and
practices; however these quilts are the result of conscious decisions made to
develop new modes of working with cloth. Each artist has been influenced by her
unique background of artistic experience, method and nationality and these
differences are celebrated in the diversity of the quilts. While some artists...
