This new body of work marks
our contemporary cultural moment; the genesis of a traumatic event and its aftershocks.
Not exact matches
It is worth stepping back for a
moment to consider briefly the larger
cultural context within which the vagaries of
contemporary moral education are worked out.
This has much in common with Steve James's award - winning documentary Hoop Dreams as it pursues and records the
moment - to -
moment responses of young people struggling to improve their lot, and in doing so reveals a penetrating socio -
cultural study of
contemporary America through a competition described by one parent as «a form of child abuse».
2017 — LOG at LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC, curated by Maria Britton — AWKWARD
MOMENTS, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY 2015 — SACRED PLACES, Smithy Center for the Arts, Cooperstown, NY 2014 — MEMENTO MORI, Field Projects, New York, curated by Deborah Brown — CROWD, curated by Andrea Brown for The Outsider's Studio Collective, Liberty, NY 2013 — NYFA@GOVERNORS, curated by New York Foundation For The Arts for Governor's Island Art Fair, New York 2012 — DAY JOB, curated by Nina Katchadourian, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2011 — HEAD CASE, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, curated by Laurel Farrin — 30: A BROOKLYN SALON, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer — CHAIN LETTER, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA — NEXT Art Fair, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart, Chicago 2010 — DAY JOB, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, curated by Nina Katchadourian 2009 — ONCE UPON A TIME AND NOW, Evanston Art Center, IL — THE HAIRY WHO AND IMAGIST LEGACY IN
CONTEMPORARY ART, at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago — ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 — THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 — RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins 2006 — SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY — RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr — ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA — ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of
CONTEMPORARY ART, at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago — ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 — THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 — RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins 2006 — SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY — RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr — ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA — ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago — ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 — THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 — RAGDALE, Chicago
Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins 2006 — SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY — RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr — ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA — ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
2013 Black Hair: Black Identity, Iona College Chapman Gallery, New Rochelle, New York, USA Singular Masses: An Examination of Racial Identity, Memphis College of Art, Hyde Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee The
Moment for Ink, Chinese
Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950, Aldrich
Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA Seven Sisters, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Established in 1932, the Biennial has long been a site for critical discussions about
contemporary art, while providing an opportunity for deep thinking and reflection on the broader
cultural concerns of a given historical
moment.
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect
Moment opened on April 7, 1990, at the
Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati in a climate of national
cultural unrest.
In a larger
cultural moment where direct funding opportunities for artists continues to be at risk, this year's important projects demonstrate the vibrancy of
contemporary practice throughout the state,» said Executive Director Kelsey Halliday Johnson.
Every night at 11.57 pm all the billboards are taken over by Midnight
Moment — a screening of innovative and
contemporary performance and visual art, showcasing new talent each month, opening the public eye to different styles and encouraging the discovery of new
cultural events.
The Cincinnati presentation of «Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect
Moment» opened on April 7, 1990 at the
Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati in a climate of national
cultural unrest.
15 November, 2011 - The Power Plant opens two major exhibitions: a new project by renowned Canadian artist Stan Douglas; and an international group exhibition of work by younger artists — both reflect on poignant
moments in
cultural history and their enduring effects on our
contemporary experience.
Taking its name from the fictional artist Bruce High Quality, who supposedly perished on September 11, 2001, the Foundation views 9/11 as a seminal
moment in
contemporary history; the ensuing wars and economic and
cultural shifts are recurring concerns.
Each of these series investigates particular regions or precise
moments in our recent history with an aim to answer the artist's social and
cultural questions and
contemporary geopolitical scenario.
In Tear Sheets, Silano creates composite images that represent often forgotten
cultural moments by re-contextualizing pages from old magazines, tackling discarded histories of LGBTQ community and its impact on
contemporary gay identity.
Grouping Beuys, Flavin, and Judd in a new exhibition from the Walker's collection provides «a snapshot of a vital
moment in postwar
cultural production,» says assistant curator Yasmil Raymond, and allows viewers to trace the influence of their ideas in
contemporary art.
In dialogue with the conventions of both trompe l'oeil and
contemporary art, these works speak to the vertigo of our
cultural moment.
It will map out aesthetic and
cultural hybridity in modern and
contemporary art that has arisen from the dispersal of peoples of Black African descent, and will also present key
moments within the
cultural politics of the Black Atlantic.
The assembled materials provide a rich jumping off point for art history students, artists, and general audiences to plunge into the international
contemporary art scene of 1972, to see what this particularly fertile
cultural moment produced.
The initial essay summarised some of the issues associated with the vast
cultural organism that is Abstract Expressionism, but a show of actual Abstract Expressionist works in the
contemporary moment is likely to present different challenges.
Every image is rooted in a specific
moment of attention, and while her work is
contemporary in terms of its fragmentation and
cultural references, it is perhaps more traditional in its commitment to the most fundamental aspects of picturemaking: drawing, colour, and texture.
Through varied media and diverse approaches, they chronicle the present
moment and their work often questions dominant
cultural narratives and addresses important
contemporary issues.