Exhibitions through September 21, 2014:
Standing in the Shadows of Love: The Aldrich Collection 1964–1974
Robert Indiana, Robert Morris, Ree Morton, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Smithson
Taylor Davis
If you steal a horse, and let him go, he'll take you to the barn you stole him from
David Diao
Front to Back
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Unicorn
Michael Joo
Drift
Michelle Lopez
Angels, Flags, Bangs
590 N Mill Street, Aspen
ERNESTO NETO
June 6–September 7, 2014
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (born 1964) has achieved international acclaim for his large-scale, immersive environments that alter and heighten our perceptions of our surroundings. Spanning both AAM upper and lower galleries, Neto’s exhibition will present visitors with two separate installations and an opportunity to slow down and rediscover the essential qualities of sensory experience.
NOTE: Ernesto Neto’s AAM exhibition will be the last to be featured in the museum’s current facility. The artist is also the recipient of the AAM’s 2014 Aspen Award for Art, which will be presented on August 2, 2014 during the museum’s annual summer ArtCrush benefit event.
NEW AAM FACILITY DEBUT EXHIBITIONS
637 E Hyman Avenue, Aspen
Roof Deck Sculpture Garden
CAI GUO-QIANG
August 9–October 5, 2014
Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, Cai Guo-Qiang’s projects and events aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them utilizing a site-specific approach to culture and history. He is developing a new project specifically for the roof deck sculpture garden of the New AAM facility.
Gallery One
SHIGERU BAN: Humanitarian Architecture
August 9–October 5, 2014
Beginning with his pioneering designs for United Nations refugee shelters in the mid-1990s, 2014 Pritzker winning architect Shigeru Ban has devoted himself to humanitarian efforts in the wake of some of the most devastating natural and manmade disasters of the past two decades.
Unlike traditional architecture exhibitions, where structures and concepts are communicated primarily through drawings, renderings, and scale models, Shigeru Ban: Humanitarian Architecture will center on full-scale examples of Ban’s groundbreaking designs, allowing the viewer to walk around as well as enter into these structures.
Galleries Two and Three
YVES KLEIN/DAVID HAMMONS
August 9–November 30, 2014
An unprecedented coupling of two of the most significant artists of our time, Yves Klein and David Hammons will consist of select bodies of work by each artist that explore points of aesthetic harmony between their practices. While not the intention of the exhibition to point to notions of “influence” or direct correlations, it will focus on resonances that point to ways in which these two important figures can be understood as performing a kind of aesthetic alchemy—investing even the humblest of materials with deep significance.
Galleries Four and Five
TOMMA ABTS
August 9–October 26, 2014
Tomma Abts’s paintings and drawings are created through a rigorous working process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Her AAM exhibition will be the first to survey her drawing practice, including new works created specifically for the exhibition. Abts was the winner of the prestigious 2006 Turner Prize.
Gallery 6
ROSEMARIE TROCKEL
August 9–October 26, 2014
One of the most influential artists of the last thirty years, Rosemarie Trockel is renowned for the diversity of her oeuvre and for her sustained engagement with questions of feminism, the shifting historical relationship between the fine and applied arts, the professional and the amateur creator, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Trockel’s exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum will offer a focused look at her groundbreaking and multifaceted engagement with ceramics.
Street-Level Plaza/Exterior of the AAM
JIM HODGES: With Liberty and Justice for All
August 9–January 2015
With a history of creating text-based art, New York-based Jim Hodges has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and abroad with work featured in the permanent collections of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary art. For the New AAM, Hodges will premiere With Liberty and Justice For All, a new text-based outdoor installation on the street level plaza running along the South Spring Street and East Hyman Avenue sides of the building. Like many of Hodges’ works, With Liberty… will allow the viewer to ponder their personal relationship to a familiar yet powerfully charged philosophical notion, writ large in this vibrant public space.
9/50: A Southeast Arts Presenters Summit
hosted by Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
June 20-22, 2014
PRESENTERS
Ain’t Bad Magazine (Savannah, GA)
ART PAPERS (Atlanta, GA)
Coleman Center for the Arts (York, AL)
Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee (Chattanooga, TN)
Dimensions Variable (Miami, FL)
Dust To Digital (Atlanta, GA)
Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC)
Flux Projects (Atlanta, GA)
Good Weather (North Little Rock, AR)
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston (Charleston, SC)
Locust Projects (Miami, FL)
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, MS)
Paradise of Bachelors (Chapel Hill, NC)
PARSE (New Orleans, LA)
Pelican Bomb (New Orleans, LA)
Press Street / Antenna Gallery (New Orleans, LA)
Seed Space (Nashville, TN)
Space One Eleven (Birmingham, AL)
For full details: http://thecontemporary.org/9-50-summit/
FREE and OPEN to the public
18 presenters + Keynote + Public panel
Be Here Now: Mike Black, Andrew Boatright, Sandra Erbacher
July 11-Aug 30, 2014
This exhibition brings together three artists whose studio-based activities and site-specific installations investigate issues of presence, and materiality.
Window into Houston: Laura Lark: Location Location Location
through– July 30, 2014 110 Milam Street in downtown Houston
Candice Breitz: The Woods
June 1–September 6, 2014
The Woods is a trilogy of video installations by renowned South African artist Candice Breitz that takes a close look at the world of child performers and the performance of childhood in order to probe the dreams and promises embedded in mainstream cinema.
Francesca DiMattio: Housewares
June 1–August 30, 2014
Francesca DiMattio is part of a generation of artists bent on reinvigorating painting and sculpture through careful consideration of the history of the medium and its traditions of material, genre, style and periodization.
It’s What You Do With What You View”: Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
June 27, 2014 - September 14, 2014
A selection from the recent gift of 320 works of art from the celebrated collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel.
Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective
June 28, 2014 - October 19, 2014
Offering new insight into his artistic practice, and organized in close collaboration with the artist, "Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective" is the first-ever comprehensive examination of the prints of Richard Tuttle.
The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb
July 10, 2014 - September 14, 2014
Features forty vintage photographs of jazz musicians in performance.
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art
March 21 – September 21
Mithu Sen: Border Unseen
April 25 – August 31
Ralli Quilts
April 25 – August 31
Imran Qureshi: The God of Small Things
May 9 – August 17
The Land Grant: Flatbread Society
https://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/museum/
Bernard Langlais
July 19, 2014 - January 4, 2015
Curated by Hannah Blunt
Known for his monumental wall reliefs and sculptures of animals from the 1970s, Maine-born artist Bernard Langlais (1921–1977) produced a rich and diverse oeuvre in his 56 years. From modernist painter to visionary environment builder, Langlais created art driven by a deep sense of place, and an unrelenting search for materials and subjects that reconciled his rural roots with postwar artistic movements and ideologies. In celebration of an extraordinary bequest by the artist's widow, Helen Friend Langlais, of her estate to Colby College in 2010, the Colby College Museum of Art will present the first scholarly retrospective of Langlais's dynamic career. The exhibition is drawn primarily from the Museum's Bernard Langlais Collection and also presents loans from several local museums and private collections, a testament to Maine's deep holdings in the art of this native son.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated monograph with essays by Hannah W. Blunt, Diana Tuite, Vincent Katz, and Leslie Umberger.
Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision
June 7 - August 31, 2014
Curated by Ramey Mize
In 2010 the Colby College Museum of Art received more than seventy works on paper spanning from the 1960s to the early 2000s by post-war American figurative artist Lois Dodd. For the first time, the drawings, watercolors, and prints of this extraordinary gift will be accessible to the public, providing visitors the opportunity to experience Dodd's work through mediums other than the oil painting for which she is best known. Three main themes will be featured: the body, the landscape, and the cityscape. The delicate and the massive meet in these drawings, and Dodd's formal approach to the architecture of figures, buildings, and natural forms offers viewers a meditation on monumentality, ephemera, and the lived human experience.
Great Rivers Biennial: Brandon Anschultz, Carlie Trosclair, and Cayce Zavaglia
Katharina Fritsch: Postcards
Audible Interruptions: Van McElwee and Cameron Fuller and Sarah Paulsen
Jon Rafman: The end of the end of the end
Through Aug 9, 2014
Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing
April 27 – August 3
Right Here, Right Now: Houston
August 23 – November 30
A Friendship: Carl Andre’s Works on Paper from the LeWitt Collection
June 7, 2014 - March 2, 2015
Bernar Venet at Meijer Gardens
Through October 2014
The acclaimed French sculptor’s work has been shown all over the world and is included in many of the most prestigious public and private collection in Europe, America and Asia—including Meijer Gardens. His exhibition in France at the famed Versailles Palace and grounds was visited by four million guests. Five works are on display on the front lawn.
David Nash: From Kew Gardens to Meijer Gardens
Friday, May 23—Sunday, August 17, 2014
For internationally renowned sculptor David Nash, the use of wood—and by extension the science and anthropology of trees—has proven central to his acclaimed repertoire. Whether through cutting, charring, casting or planting, trees have been the singular resource for nearly all of his sculptural pursuits, equally serving as the source of inspiration for his drawings and documentaries. This monumental exhibition is organized by Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in cooperation with the artist; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany; and Haines Gallery, San Francisco.
House tours are available daily except Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. now through November 30th, Saturday and Sunday in December and the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Two hour In-depth tour, one hour regular tour, Sunset Tours, Brunch Tours, special Twilight Tour, Focus Tours, Landscape Tours and an InSight/Onsite residency are available. Advance ticket purchase is essential to guarantee admission. Speyer Gallery Exhibit “Fallingwater Renewed”” Architecture, Preservation and Furnishings from mid-June through December.
Watch Me Move: The Animation Show
June 6–Sept. 1, 2014
In 1911, American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay prefaced his short film Little Nemo with the invitation to “Watch Me Move,” introducing a cast of colorful characters in a playful promenade. This exhibition uses these same words to invite visitors to a celebration of animation. Watch Me Move is the most extensive exhibition ever mounted to present the full range of animated imagery produced in the last 120 years. Presenting animation as a highly influential force in the development of global visual culture, the exhibition explores the relationship between animation and film.
Cutting across generations and cultures, Watch Me Move features over 100 works, from iconic clips to lesser-known masterpieces. It brings together industry pioneers, independent film-makers and contemporary artists including Étienne-Jules Marey, Harry Smith, Jan Švankmajer, William Kentridge and Nathalie Djurberg alongside the creative output of commercial studios such as Walt Disney, Aardman, Studio Ghibli and Pixar.
Watch Me Move: The Animation Show is organized by Barbican Centre, London. The Barbican Centre is provided by the City of London Corporation.
Platinum Sponsor: HCA and the TriStar Family of Hospitals
Hospitality Sponsor: Union Station Hotel
Maira Kalman: The Elements of Style
June 6–Sept. 1, 2014
This exhibition features paintings on paper by Maira Kalman that were used to illustrate a 2007 re-publication of the authoritative American English writing style guide The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White. Kalman’s illustrations whimsically embody the didactic examples of grammar rules and their breakage provided by this essential text for writers. Phrases like “But animals do not comprise (‘embrace’) a zoo—they constitute a zoo” and “None of us is perfect” inspired Kalman’s visual witticisms. Her use of flattened space, strong colors and childlike figures provide an enjoyable lesson in both literary and visual literacy.
Maira Kalman: The Elements of Style is organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville.
Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art
June 27–Oct.12, 2014
A survey of works from the 1920s to 1960s drawn from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Real/Surreal looks at the way in which many American artists represented reality as a subjective and malleable state of mind rather than a fixed truth. Influenced by European Surrealists of the 1920s like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, some American artists used the tools of illusionistic representation to subvert reality entirely, while others subtly tweaked the conventions of realism, turning the familiar into something unsettling and uncanny. The exhibition includes works by Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Man Ray and Thomas Hart Benton, among others.
Real/Surreal is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
The Frist Center is supported in part by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts."
Fujiko Nakaya: Veil fog installation
May 1 to November 30, 2014
Six Panels: Al Taylor organized by Robert Storr
May 31 to July 15, 2014.
Vincent Feteau: Untitled 2014 for Night series
curated by Jordan Stein
Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1944–2013
May 16–September 7, 2014
Caio Reisewitz
May 16–September 7, 2014
Sebastião Salgado – Genesis
September 19, 2014–January 11, 2015
Conversations - Marking 20 Years
through September 21, 2014
Depth and Meaning: 20th Anniversary Gifts
June 6, 2014 - May 24, 2015
Jarrett Mellenbruch: Float
through September 21, 2014
The Center is a Moving Target
through August 1, 2014
Barry Anderson: Pigeon
through November 2, 2014
This American Life: People, Places, Things
through September 19, 2014
Marisol: Sculpture and Works on Paper
June 14 – September 7, 2014
Curated by the Brooks Museum’s Chief Curator, Marina Pacini, and inspired by Marisol’s mixed-media sculpture The Family, which was commissioned by the Brooks in 1969, the exhibition elucidates Marisol’s artistic evolution, both in terms of subject matter and materials. Among the themes explored are Marisol’s myriad influences (Neo-Dada, Surrealism, American and Latin American folk art, Pre-Columbian art, etc.); her relationship to postwar art and cultural movements (Pop, Minimalism, and Feminism); her experimentation with materials; her extensive use of portraiture; her politically charged sculptures; and her identity as a female artist who was born in Paris of Venezuelan parents and lived most of her life in New York City. Marisol: Sculpture and Works on Paper seeks to introduce new and diverse audiences to the artist, while re-establishing her as a major figure in postwar American art. The national tour begins at the Brooks Museum in June 2014 before traveling to El Museo del Barrio in New York City. A catalogue, co-published by Yale University Press, is available worldwide.
A Thin Wall of Air: Charles James
May 31 – September 7, 2014
fresh: Haim Steinbach and Objects from the Permanent Collection
June 28 – August 31, 2014
Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed
August 16, 2014 – January 11, 2015
through July 27, 2014:
Dara Friedman Projecting
Steve Locke there is no one left to blame
José Lerma La Bella Crisis
Midwestern Voices and Visions
Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe
Works 1970–2011
through July 13, 2014
Platform: Maya Lin
July 4, 2014 to October 13, 2014
William Glackens
July 20, 2014 to October 13, 2014
Chuck Close Photographs
April 18, 2015 to July 12, 2015
George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island
through August 3, 2014
Andrea Sulzer: throughout sideways
through August 24, 2014
Richard Estes’ Realism
through September 7, 2014
Art of Its Own Making
on view through August 20, 2014
Featuring sculpture, installation, film, video, and sound works from the last fifty years, Art of Its Own Making brings together a diverse group of artists including Athanasios Argianas, Tony Conrad, Edith Dekyndt, Agnes Denes, Hans Haacke, Sam Lewitt, Len Lye, Robert Morris, Nam June Paik, Keith Tyson, and Meg Webster, among others, who examine how generative elements outside of their control impact the works of art they create. The works in the exhibition invite alternative encounters, encouraging audiences to consider their relationship to the works and surrounding environment. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of programs that respond to the show's themes through different art forms, including music, performance, and literature.
PXSTL: Lots
on view May 9 - October 5, 2014
Collaboratively organized by the Pulitzer and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University, the PXSTL design-build competition challenged designers to transform a vacant lot across the street from the Pulitzer building into a destination for activity. The winning design, Lots by Freecell Architecture, encourages active audience engagement through a temporary construction composed of a platform, canopy, and fabric. The structure will serve as a space for outdoor performances, social gatherings, and public education programs in the Grand Center neighborhood of St. Louis, May 9 - October 5.
The Eye is a Door: Landscape Photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn
January 31–August 31, 2014
Permanent Collection: Wide range of 20th-century contemporary paintings and sculpture from the Museum’s permanent collection
SUMMER—FREE FOR ALL:
Admission is free through August 2014 while second + third floor galleries are closed for the Gallery Reinstallation and Reinterpretation Project
Second Fridays:
June 13 4–8 pm
4–6 pm Hands-on! Art making for ages 4+ with adult (while supplies last)
6 pm Gallery talk by Anne Whiston Spirn
June 15 Film screening of PINA
7:30 pm at Amherst Cinema Co-presenters: SCMA + Amherst Cinema
Tix: Amherst Cinema box office or amherstcinema.org
July 11 4–8 pm
4–6 pm Hands-on! Art making for ages 4+ with adult (while supplies last)
6 pm Open Eyes An informal, guided conversation about an art object
August 8 4–8 pm
4–6 pm Hands-on! Art making for ages 4+ with adult (while supplies last)
6 pm Open Eyes An informal, guided conversation about an art object
Art Expanded, 1958–1978
June 14–March 2015
Christian Marclay: The Clock
June 14–August 25
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
July 14–January 2015
Artist-Designed Mini Golf
May 22–September 1
Bay Area Now 7
Jul 18-Oct 5, 2014
The visual arts component of Bay Area Now 7 has been reconceived through an open and rigorous selection process. By inviting noncommercial, small-to mid-size regional visual arts organizations to curate site-specific projects with Bay Area artists in YBCA’s galleries, we are making visible the rich complexity of our many arts communities. Using an art fair style format in which the selected participants curate projects for specific locations throughout an exhibition space, BAN7 celebrates visual arts organizations as vital players in the local arts ecology. The exhibition aims to foster increased appreciation for Bay Area art, artists, and organizers, and to promote a greater understanding of the vast range of practices and individual visions that make the Bay Area such a vibrant center for contemporary art.
Participating Organizations: [2nd floor projects], San Francisco; Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco; Bay Area Art Workers Alliance, Oakland; Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco; Creativity Explored, San Francisco; di Rosa, Napa; the Estria Foundation, Emeryville; FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco; Important Projects, Oakland; Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga; n/a, Oakland; Pied-à-terre, San Francisco; Publication Studio, Oakland; San Quentin Prison Arts Project, San Quentin; and Stairwell’s, San Francisco.