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The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has one of the foremost collections of modern and contemporary art in the Southeast. Through a dynamic annual calendar of exhibitions and educational programs, the Weatherspoon provides an opportunity for audiences to consider artistic, cultural, and social issues of our time, and enriches the life of our university and community.
"Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950"
July 3, 2010 – October 17, 2010
“Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950” includes an extraordinary body of work created by the artist for the architect Josep Sert’s 1950 city plan for Chimbote, Peru, and two dozen other important works from that year. His nine large-scale Chimbote painting studies form a concise and inspired example of the depth of Hofmann’s strengths as an abstract painter and modernist visionary. He is often heralded more for his influence as a teacher than as an artist, but Hans “Hofmann: Circa 1950” situates him firmly at the center of American abstract painting of the time.
The year 1950 was an important one for Hofmann, during which he produced more than fifty paintings. It marks his full maturity as a painter, and delineates one of his most productive periods as a writer, revealing the formal and conceptual intricacies of his intellectual concerns and his creative processes. Hofmann also delivered an important talk, “Post-Abstract Painting, 1950 France and America,” at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name that co-curator Michael Rush says was characterized as the “most radical artist organized show of contemporary art in America since the 1913 Armory Show.”
“Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950” is curated by Michael Rush, the Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The touring exhibition is organized by the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK. Generous support for Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950 is provided by the Hans Hofmann Estate.
"American Art: Circa 1950 - Selections from the Permanent Collection"
August 14, 2010 – October 24, 2010
In the years following World War II, many innovative American painters came to the fore, focusing attention away from the Paris based art scene that had for so long held a position of authority and influence. It was during this time that American abstraction rose to prominence in the national and international art world. This companion exhibition to “Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950” includes paintings, drawings and sculpture made on or around 1950 by notable artists such as Konrad Cramer, Jimmy Ernst, Gertrude Greene (pictured), Gregory Ivy, Turku Trajan, and others.
"Amy Cutler: Falk Visiting Artist"
September 18, 2010 – December 12, 2010
This exhibition includes a selection of gouache paintings and graphite drawings by New York based artist Amy Cutler. Cutler culls her imagery--populated by images of women in the midst of peculiar activities--from a wide range of sources, including her own memory, fairy tales, medieval manuscripts, and Nordic folklore. Her exhibition at the Weatherspoon will focus on the artist’s investigations of physical transformation and disembodiment, as well as her depictions of intricately patterned textiles.
Amy Cutler (b. 1974, Poughkeepsie, NY) received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art, New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Her work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum at UCLA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Weatherspoon Art Museum.
As the Fall 2010 Falk Visiting Artist at the Weatherspoon and the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Cutler will participate in MFA graduate student critiques and present a gallery talk and public lecture.
"Works from the Rosenblum Collection: Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol"
September 25, 2010 – January 9, 2011
This exhibition features works by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein that are currently on extended loan from the Jane and Robert Rosenblum Collection. Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006) was an esteemed art historian and influential curator whose interests ranged from 18th- and 19th-century French painting to contemporary art. He held an endowed chair as professor of Modern European art at New York University from 1976 until his death, and also served as curator of 20th-century art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. A symposium on Rosenblum’s scholarly contributions will be held in the conjunction with the exhibition.
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