01 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
united states
July 15, 2012 – February 24, 2013
Reception: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 3–5pm, round-trip NYC transportation available
united states is a semester of solo exhibitions and artist’s projects that approach both the nature of the United States as a country and “united states” as the notion of uniting separate forms, manners, or conditions of being. Timed to coincide with the 2012 American election season, united states is presented at a time when political and social divisions in this country are readily apparent, and polarization on many major issues is at an historical high. No one series of exhibitions can summarize the complexity of the meanings inherent in the concept of “united states,” however the goal is not to provide closure, but rather to echo the belief that disparate entities united to form a whole are hopefully greater (and more profound) than the simple sum of parts.
united states includes solo exhibitions by Pedro Barbeito, Jonathan Brand, Brody Condon, Brad Kahlhamer, Brian Knep, Erik Parker, and Hank Willis Thomas, as well as singular projects by Jane Benson, Alison Crocetta, Celeste Fichter, Erika Harrsch, Sui Jianguo, Nina Katchadourian, Matthew Northridge, Risa Puno, John Stoney, Frances Trombly, Rosemary Williams, and Jenny Yurshansky.
For a complete listing of exhibitions, programs, and events please visit aldrichart.org.
02 ASPEN ART MUSEUM
The Residue of Memory
May 11-July 15, 2012
Reception: Thursday, June 28, 6–8pm
Kristoffer Akselbo, John Baldessari, Andrea Bowers, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Roberto Cuoghi, Simon Evans, Lara Favaretto, Paul Graham, Karl Haendel, Susan Hiller, Pierre Huyghe, Friedrich Kunath, Glenn Ligon, Teresa Margolles, Richard Misrach, Richard Prince, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Doris Salcedo, Kaari Upson, and Anna Von Mertens.
Simon Denny: Full Participation
May 18–July 15, 2012
Denny’s AAM exhibition grows, in part, out of his research into the history of Aspen’s Grassroots Television—the oldest public access cable channel in the U.S.
Fourth of July Picnic
July 4, 1:30 pm
Join us after Aspen’s Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Parade—featuring the AAM’s seventh annual float project designed this year by LA–based artist Mungo Thomson.
Amelie von Wulffen, AAM Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence
July 27 – October 7, 2012
Reception: Thursday, July 26, 6 – 8 pm
Blending abstraction and figuration, Romanticism and psychedelia, von Wulffen’s large-scale paintings revisit and reprocess tropes of modern painting from German Expressionism onward. Von Wulffen’s Aspen Art Museum solo exhibition—her first in an American museum—will include a new body of paintings and works on paper.
Lucio Fontana: Ceramics
July 27–October 7, 2012
One of the twentieth century’s most innovative artists, Fontana (1899–1968) continually challenged the boundaries of art-making and the role of the artist. Comprising approximately twenty works from the early 1930s through the ‘60s, this is the first museum exhibition dedicated solely to his groundbreaking ceramic work.
03 BERKSHIRE MUSEUM
Liz Whitney Quisgard: Kaleidoscope
May 24–October 21, 2012
Liz Whitney Quisgard: Kaleidoscope features a vivid selection of paintings and fiber wall hangings reminiscent of Byzantine mosaics. Award-winning artist Liz Whitney Quisgard utilizes an exuberant palette to produce her intricate geometric patterns comprised of marks, or dots, placed in a mesmerizing array of triangles, spirals, lines, and circles. Sumptuous colors and rich patterns create a scintillating rhythm and texture across her paintings and fiber works.
The Big Picture: Berkshire Museum Camera Club 75th Anniversary Exhibition
June 14 – September 16, 2012
Reception: Thursday, June 14, 5 – 7 pm
The Big Picture: Berkshire Museum Camera Club 75th Anniversary Exhibition features an array of photographs, printed in large format for maximum visual impact, covering a wide range of topics and techniques, from awe-inspiring landscapes to meticulous still lifes, sensitive portraits to enigmatic infrared images. The four seasons are magnificently represented, as are various regions across the globe, from the Sahara to Mumbai to Morocco. John R. Stomberg, Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and Maria Mingalone, Berkshire Museum director of interpretation, are co-curators of the exhibition.
Major Commissions by Tom Patti
On view beginning June 30, 2012
Echoes in Space June 23 – October 8, 2012 Tom Patti: A Gala Celebration Friday, June 29, 6 pm
Opening Day Celebration for Tom Patti
Saturday, June 30, 10 am – 5 pm
A day-long celebration of major new works of art in glass by Tom Patti includes the opening ceremony, an artist talk and book signing with Tom Patti, and refreshments; free admission.
Tom Patti, the Pittsfield-based artist internationally renowned for his innovative work in glass, has been commissioned by Berkshire Museum to create original works for the Museum’s entry vestibule and lobby area. The new works will be on view beginning Saturday, June 30. In addition to the commission, a new exhibition, Echoes in Space, will be on view in one of the Museum’s second floor galleries from June 23 through October 8, 2012. Echoes in Space will feature samples and maquettes that were part of the creative process for the commissioned works, as well as a video explaining Patti’s innovative techniques. Echoes in Space is funded, in part, by the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass.
Rethink! American Indian Art at Berkshire Museum
July 7, 2012, through January 6, 2013
Reception: Thursday, July 12, 5 – 7 pm
Family Day of programs and activities Saturday, July 14, 10 am – 5 pm Rethink! American Indian Art at Berkshire Museum features contemporary works of art in a range of media and techniques, from photography, video, installations, contemporary basketry, and beadwork to ceramics, sculpture, and glass, by accomplished artists Marcus Amerman, Jeremy Frey, Teri Greeves, Diego Romero, Preston Singletary, and Bently Spang. The exhibition also will include historic Native American art objects from Berkshire Museum’s permanent collections. Rethink! is co-curated by art historian Margaret Archuleta and Berkshire Museum director of interpretation Maria Mingalone, and Leanne Hayden, collections manager.
04 CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST. LOUIS
Great Rivers Biennial 2012
May 11 – August 12, 2012
Great Rivers Biennial 2012 demonstrates how artists based in the St. Louis area dynamically engage with the issues,stylistic tendencies, and techniques that define the contemporary art and culture of our time. The winners—David Johnson, Asma Kazmi, and Mel Trad—have developed individual projects in photography, multimedia installation, and sculpture, respectively. They explore subjects that vary from the significance of overlooked architectural details and the ability of art to empower the socially disenfranchised, to the use of discarded materials to redefine sculptural practice. Johnson, Kazmi, and Trad engage local figures and phenomena to address such universal concerns, thus underscoring how the Great Rivers Biennial furthers dialogue between St. Louis and the rest of the world.
Established in 2003, the Great Rivers Biennial is a collaborative exhibition program presented by CAM and the Gateway Foundation. The initiative identifies talented emerging and mid-career artists working in the greater St. Louis metro area, provides them with financial assistance, and elevates their profile across the Midwest and national art communities. Three distinguished jurors — Lisa Dorin, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago; Jeffrey Grove, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art; and Lydia Yee, Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, London — selected the three winning artists from more than 120 submissions representing a wide range of media including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and new media.
Takashi Horisaki Presents Social Dress St. Louis: Learning and Unlearning
Through July 15, 2012
Takashi Horisaki (b. 1974 Tokyo, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) creates casts of architectural facades and found objects in order to trace the evolution of urban landscapes. His Front Room exhibition continues the Social Dress series, which the artist initiated at Washington University in 2004 (he received an MFA in 2005). Assuming the role of community organizer, Horisaki will conduct public workshops prior to the exhibition in which participants will cast personally significant objects in liquid latex. By exhibiting the resulting casts in the Front Room, Horisaki’s project encourages dialogue about the meaning of materiality, place, and identity in the city of St. Louis.
Serena Perrone
July 19, 2012 - August 12, 2012
Serena Perrone’s (b. 1979, St. Louis) highly stylized and labor-intensive printmaking practice combines painting with processes such as woodcut, drawing, silkscreen, and intaglio. The subjects of her intricate works on paper are equal parts figurative and narrative, ranging from the diaries of a late poet-volcanologist to modern-day fairytales and escapist fantasies. Her creations thus recall those of other fantastically imaginative artists such as William Blake, Henry Darger, and Kiki Smith. Perrone’s Front Room exhibition will premiere the new twenty-part print series, Maintaining a Safe Distance and Living to Tell (2012), featuring imagery of buildings and specific sites in and around St. Louis.
05 Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney
June 14 – September 9, 2012
Experience the art of Jerry Pinkney, a master of the American picture book whose powerful, heart-warming stories reflect personal and cultural themes, and explore the African American experience in words and pictures. This exhibition, celebrating an artistic journey that has continued for 50 years, offers memorable perspectives on life’s small but extraordinary moments and on significant historical events that are brought into focus through his art. The power of classic literature and the meaning of visual storytelling in our lives is made clear in the work of this legendary illustrator who became “the voice that others may not have had.” A popular and critically acclaimed artist, Jerry Pinkney was recently presented with the prestigious Caldecott Medal, awarded to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children that year. The recipient of five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, and a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Illustrators in New York, the artist has also served on the Board of the National Endowment for the Arts, and on the National Postal Service’s Citizen Stamp Advisory Council. "Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney" has been organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Visions of Our 44th President
Opening July, 2012
On November 4, 2008, America witnessed a historic event: the election of the nation's first African American President. This July, it will witness another: the debut of Visions of Our 44th President, a collective sculptural show created to recognize and celebrate the historical significance of the first African American President, Barack Obama, opening at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the world's largest institution dedicated to the African American experience. Forty-four contemporary American artists, renowned and emerging, are participating in the avant-garde art collaboration with Peter Kaplan of Our World, LLC. Dynamic and inspiring, the exhibition includes the 44 artists’ interpretations of our 44th President in life-size, three-dimensional form. In essence, each sculpture is a blank canvas upon which artists imaginatively celebrate the man, his presidency and our history. Visions of Our 44th President will inspire present and future generations with its messages of diversity, hope and possibility.
06 COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Alex Katz: Maine/New York
July 14 – December 30, 2012
Curated by Carter Ratcliff, Alex Katz: Maine/New York considers the art of Alex Katz from the paired perspectives of his longtime artistic milieus—New York City and Maine. Drawn from the holdings of the Colby College Museum of Art, the collection of the artist, and selected loans, paintings in this exhibition illuminate the urban and rural subjects that have guided the artist's work for more than six decades.
07 DETROIT INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
Patti Smith: Camera Solo
June 1, 2012 – September 2, 2012
This is the first American museum exhibition to focus on the photography of artist, poet, and performer Patti Smith. Smith's photographs are infused with personal meaning and highlight the rich relationships between art, architecture, poetry and the everyday. This selection of images from the past decade reveals the artists, poets, authors, family and friends from whom Smith draws inspiration. The exhibition includes 70 black and white gelatin silver prints and a small selection of original Polaroids and items from Smith’s personal collection.
In the era of digital imaging and manipulation, Smith’s works champion the use of photography in its most classical sense: as a tool to document a “found” moment. She finds the poetic qualities of a particular time and place and captures that beauty on film. The photographs explore themes that have been significant in Smith’s work, including poets and writers, portraiture, travel, and art and architecture.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue featuring an interview with Smith by exhibition curator Susan L. Talbott, director and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
This exhibition was organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. In Detroit, the exhibition is supported by the City of Detroit. Free with museum admission.
08 Falling Water
House tours are available daily except Wednesday from 10 am until 4 pm now through November 30th, Friday, 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 Tour, Brunch Tour and lectures are available. Advance ticket purchase or reservations are essential to guarantee admission. Touchstone Center for Crafts exhibition in the Visitor Center Gallery from mid-June through September.
09 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Kiki Smith’s Sleepwaker at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Installation in the Sculpture Park permanent collection, now on view.
Beverly Pepper: Palingenesis 1962 – 2012
May 25 – August 26, 2012
Beverly Pepper has been a major force across the international scene since she first captured widespread critical acclaim in the 1960s.This exhibition focuses exclusively on her pioneering efforts in metal beginning with her debut at the famed Spoleto exhibition in 1962 through recent efforts. Charting her innovation and determination, iconic works from across her repertoire will be on view.This is the first major presentation of Pepper’s work in recent years and the first to explore the power and vision of her work in steel. From daring, welded steel of the early 1960s, to pristine geometric works of the late 1960s and 1970s, to the upright sentinels known in public and private collections around the world, the exhibition carries through to ascending monoliths of recent years.The exhibition is exclusive to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.
Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture
September 19 – January 6, 2013
Historically, the human figure has served as the near singular subject addressed in sculpture. From the 1950s forward, abstract and non-representational modes of thinking became critical to sculptors and representing the figure in more literal terms fell largely out of fashion. Recently, many artists have returned to the figure but in decidedly contemporary terms. This exhibition is a survey of contemporary sculpture around the subject of the human figure as both an object and a metaphor. Considering a wide variety of formal and conceptual approaches by artists from across the United States and around the world, the exhibition illustrates the diversity and depth of the figure in Contemporary Art from more literal terms to those which are implied or symbolically stated. Building on the strength and variety of the figurative tradition of Meijer Garden’s acclaimed permanent collection; this exhibition explores a renewal of interest in the subject from objects to installations while surveying a broad spectrum of concepts, forms and materials.
10International Center of Photography
Weegee: Murder Is My Business
http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/weegee-murder-my-business
A Short History of Photography
Christer Strömholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche
http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/christer-stromholm-les-amies-de-place-blanche
President in Petticoats! Civil War Propaganda in Photographs
http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/president-petticoats-civil-war-propaganda-photographs
12 PARRISH ART MUSEUM
The Landmarks of New York
June 24 - September 5, 2012
Organized by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, the exhibition features 90 remarkable photographs with descriptive, historic text, as well as a series of public programs addressing issues of preservation, development, and community involvement.
13 The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
In the Still Epiphany
April 5 – October 27, 2012
In honor of its 10th anniversary year, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents the exhibition In the Still Epiphany. Artist Gedi Sibony curates the exhibition of nearly 50 objects from the art collection of Emily & Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., including works by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, John Singer Sargent and more.
Free and open to the public. Wednesdays, 12 – 5 pm, Saturdays, 10 am – 5 pm
14 Re:View Contemporary Gallery
NIAGARA: War Paint
July 14 – August 4, 2012
Co-founder of the seminal proto-punk art collective Destroy All Monsters (with the late Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw), NIAGARA presents her newest body of work in her first solo exhibit in her hometown, Detroit, in nearly eight years. In “War Paint” Niagara explores the roles of women during wartime, specifically World War II, in her trademark Comic Panel narrative style, infused with color, attitude and wit.
Ian Swanson: Ian Swanson / recent works
September 8 – October 20, 2012
In his first solo exhibit at Re:View Gallery, Ian Swanson presents works that exist within the liminal state between their own dissolution and causation, using his studio practice as a catalyst towards a casual yet sophisticated investigation of cultural and historical modalities. In these works, reductions of discarded possibilities toil through repeated actions towards an elusive and unexpected outcome.
15 SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART
Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe
April 14 – August 19, 2012
Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe showcases all-new work by this highly acclaimed multi-media artist. Featuring luminous paintings and one photograph, Origin of the Universe examines landscapes, interiors, and the female body-challenging traditional notions of feminine identity. Inspired by Gustave Courbet's revolutionary 1866 painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), Thomas presents the female body as the "origin of the world." In addition, Thomas has created a site-specific installation in SMMoA's Project Room 2 that reinvents Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés, where the "peepshow" reveals an unexpected surprise.
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