Monday, September 16, 2013

Still Life Lives! Fitchburg Art Museum



Upcoming Exhibitions


Still Life Lives!September 22nd, 2013 - January 12th, 2014

Opening reception: Sunday, September 22nd, 1 - 3 p.m.

Meet the Artists: Sunday, November 3rd, 1 - 2 p.m.
Participating Still Life Lives! artists Mary Kocol, Emily Eveleth, and Randal Thurston
will discuss their photography, paintings, and installations in informal gallery presentations.

Still Life Lives! is a group exhibition that celebrates the vitality of the still life tradition and its themes of beauty, bounty, darkness, fragility, and fleeting moments. Still Life Lives! features paintings from FAM’s permanent collection – gorgeous florals and fruits by Nell Blaine, Marc Chagall, Henri Fantin-Latour, William Harnett, Walt Kuhn, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Marguerite Zorach, to name a few – surrounded by striking examples of the genre by over twenty contemporary New England artists.


Still Life Lives! and its programs are funded in part by the Elsi D. Simonds Lecture Fund.


With Still Life Lives!, FAM introduces our new Learning Lounge, a gallery of fun educational activities for all ages. Learn more about the art of still life, and the exhibiting artists, in the Learning Lounge.

This program is funded by a generous grant from the Clementi Family Charitable Trust.

Featured Still Life Lives! artists include: Thomas Birtwistle, Michael Bühler-Rose, Caleb Charland, John Chervinsky, Emily Eveleth, Aaron Fink, David Furman, Matthew Gamber, Cynthia Greig, Judy Haberl, Elisa H. Hamilton, Jon Imber, Catherine Kehoe, Mary Kocol, Elizabeth Kostojohn, Pat Lasch, Laura Letinsky, Catherine McCarthy, Mary O’Malley, Olivia Parker, Scott Prior, Shelley Reed, Justin Richel, Janet Rickus, Evelyn Rydz, Victor Schrager, Tara Sellios, Randal Thurston, Kathleen Volp, Deb Todd Wheeler, and Kimberly Witham.
 
Image Caption: Kimberly Witham, Still Life with Pitchers and Tea Cup, 2010, digital c-print
, 18 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist. 

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New Photography 2013 , Museum of Modern Art


EXHIBITIONS

New Photography 2013

September 14, 2013–January 6, 2014
The Robert and Joyce Menschel Photography Gallery, third floor
New Photography 2013 presents recent works by eight international artists who have expanded the field of photography as a medium of experimentation and intellectual inquiry. Their porous practices—grounded in photographic artist’s books, sculpture, photomontage, performance, and science—creatively reassess the themes and processes of making pictures today.
Adam Broomberg (South African, b. 1970) and Oliver Chanarin's (British, b. 1971) War Primer 2 (2011), an artist’s book focused on the "War on Terror," physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s first English-language edition of War Primer. In his signature works, Brendan Fowler (American, b. 1978), a musician and visual artist, overlaps up to four framed pictures by literally crashing one through another, thus mixing photography and performance. Annette Kelm (German, b. 1975) conflates several genres in single works or in series on a single motif. Carefully composed, not unlike advertisements, the precise objectivity of her pictures is often undercut by artifice and strangeness. Lisa Oppenheim (American, b. 1975) produces photograms by culling Flickr images of fire in natural disasters or bombing attacks. She then creates digital negatives, which she exposes to fire and solarizes. In her cross-media practice, Anna Ostoya (Polish, b. 1978) examines the histories of lesser-known avant-garde movements in East-Central Europe in parallel with their renowned Western counterparts. Josephine Pryde (British, b. 1967) references the history of darkroom experiments and contemporary medical imaging techniques in such photo series as It’s Not My Body (2011). Eileen Quinlan’s (American, b. 1972) forays into abstract photography are grounded in feminist history and material culture.
The artists in New Photography 2013 explore dialectical reversals between abstraction and representation, documentary and conceptual processes, the uniquely handmade and the mechanically reproducible, and analog and digital techniques, underscoring the idea that there has never been just one type of photography.
The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator; with Katerina Stathopoulou, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography.
Major support for the exhibition is provided by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley.
Additional funding is provided by the MoMA Annual Exhibition Fund.
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Plate 10 from <i>War Primer 2</i>. 2011. Artist’s book, 11 13/16 x 9 13/16 x 3/4" (30 x 25 x 1.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Paradise Row, London. © 2013 Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin<br /> <br /> President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and members of the national security team, as they receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Plate 10 from War Primer 2. 2011. Artist’s book, 11 13/16 x 9 13/16 x 3/4" (30 x 25 x 1.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Paradise Row, London. © 2013 Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and members of the national security team, as they receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011
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