We love a good party! Come celebrate the opening of two terrific exhibitions and enjoy great art, great hors d'oeuvres, and a great museum. Everyone is welcome; bring a friend. Just RSVP by Tuesday, September 6.
Destination: Latin America offers a multifaceted, didactic journey through twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American art. Drawn from the collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, the exhibition is organized in five sections. The first includes work by artists affiliated with the artistic revolution that emerged after the Mexican Revolution; section two features sculpture and painting by key South American artists exploring color, form, space, and motion; section three features work by Caribbean and South American artists inspired by African art, Surrealism, and Magical Realism; section four addresses the challenges faced by artists living under the dictatorships of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, when most of South America was under military control; and section five concentrates on contemporary artists looking at themes of history, globalization, violence, and social criticism.
This exhibition includes the work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Raúl Anguiano, Julio Antonio, Henry Bermudez, CADA, Leda Catunda, Carlos Cruz-Diez, José Luis Cuevas, Arturo Duclos, Lucio Fontana, Carlos Garaicoa, Florencio Gelabert, Alfred Jensen, Nicolás de Jesús, Wifredo Lam, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Teresa Margolles, María Martínez-Cañas, Roberto Matta, Almir Mavignier, José Clemente Orozco, Marta María Perez Bravo, Betsabeé Romero, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gerardo Suter, Rufino Tamayo, Luis Tomasello, and Eugenia Vargas.
Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source
September 11, 2016 - December 23, 2016
n Urban walls hold the history of a place. In our daily lives, we often pass them by unnoticed. For the artists in Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, however, the beauty of decaying walls serves as an inspiration that informs their work. This multi-media group exhibition features seven international artists who explore a contemporary archaeological aesthetic, making art on urban walls in which the wall itself becomes an integral part of the work. They often search for a particular surface, location, or history that directly speaks to them, places where the interaction between individuals and materials accumulate to create new meaning. The exhibition examines the fluid history of walls that have been layered with paint, posters, and different narratives over time and considers the ways in which artists move between the studio and the street. Artists BLU (Senigallia, Italy), Mark Bradford (Los Angeles), Burhan Dogançay (Turkey), José Parlá (Miami), JR (Paris), Robin Rhode (Cape Town), Vhils a.k.a. Alexandre Farto (Portugal), and Jacque Villeglé (Paris) are each contributing to and capturing this unique and public narrative. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue.
| Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter September 11, 2016 - December 23, 2016 During the summer of 1948 Ray Spillenger studied with Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. This exhibition, including over forty paintings and drawings dating from the artist’s Black Mountain College days to the late 1960s, reveals Spillenger’s deep commitment to abstraction and his passionate love of color. After leaving Black Mountain College, Spillenger moved to New York City where he became a member of “The Club,” a Cedar Tavern regular, and friend to Abstract Expressionist luminaries including Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Philip Guston. Despite his contribution to the formation of the New York School, Spillenger did not find commercial or critical success. Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter is the first exhibition to examine this unseen body of work and to assess the artist’s contribution to the history of mid-twentieth-century American art. This exhibition has been organized by the Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center and curated by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Curator of American Art, Emeritus, Harvard Art Museums. |
Join us for this terrific event! RSVP by September 6 to nma.rsvp@purchase.edu or914-251-6125. For directions and more information, visit neuberger.org
