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New Jersey Art Events
New Jersey Art Events
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Blocks of Color:, Sep 01, 2009 to Jan 03, 2010
American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the present
Category: New Brunswick Art event in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Event: This presentation of over 100 prints surveys the use of the woodcut medium in the United States. The exhibition begins with a remarkable moment in the late nineteenth century when American artists, inspired by the arts and crafts movement and Japanese color prints, began experimenting with new ways to print in color. Rarely seen color woodcuts by Arthur Wesley Dow, an influential educational leader who promoted the art of the color woodcut, depict alluring Massachusetts landscapes in Japanese-inspired styles. Later artists experimented with the technique to create modernist imagery. Blanche Lazzell adapted cubism to render still lifes and the hills of West Virginia in brilliant yellows, oranges, greens, and blues. By the middle of the twentieth century, artists were transforming the woodcut to display bold colors and abstract forms. Contemporary artists worked in the medium in unprecedented ways; they created large-scale color woodcuts featuring people, landscapes, geometric abstraction, or organic forms, in styles as varied as abstract expressionism and minimalism. Blocks of Color continues up to the present day with prints by 43 other artists, including Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Bosman, Francesco Clemente, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Karen Kunc, Sherrie Levine, Michael Mazur, and others. Drawn primarily from the Zimmerli’s extensive print collection, this exhibition is also complemented by several key loans from regional collections. Christine Giviskos, Associate Curator of Nineteenth-Century European Art, curated the exhibition with Marilyn Symmes, Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts and Curator of Prints and Drawings.
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Lois Lenski: Exploring the Everyday Lives of Children, Sep 24, 2009 to Nov 29, 2009
Lois Lenski
Category: New Brunswick Art event in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Event: Thirty-six illustrations selected from the Zimmerli Art Museum’s holdings of over 60 children’s book illustrations by Lois Lenski (1893-1974) reveal ways in which the Newbery Award–winning author/illustrator’s deep interest in the daily lives and activities of children is reflected in visual components of her books.
Lenski’s groundbreaking picture book, The Little Auto (1934), features clear hand-lettered text and engaging black and red illustrations that resonate with the imaginative play of a child with a toy car. Reflecting her ideas about the preferences of young children, crisp ink drawings with touches of color predominate in works such as Now It’s Fall (1948), and figures and action are contained within the frame of the page.
Concurrently with creating picture books, Lenski researched, wrote, and illustrated fiction for older children. Beginning in the early 1940s, Lenski determined to investigate and describe in fiction the lives of children from various regions of the United States currently under-represented in juvenile literature. Books such as Judy’s Journey (1947), a novel about a girl whose family earns a living as migrant workers, provided children of the World War II and post-war era with a perspective on lives much different from their own. Small, information-packed illustrations in graphite or ink amplify, but don’t compete with the texts.
Books for viewing and for browsing will be on display in the gallery, along with activities for visitors. Illustrations on view in the gallery, some being shown for the first time, are the gift of the artist’s son, Steven Covey. The exhibition is organized by Gail Aaron, Assistant Curator, Original Illustrations for Children’s Books, Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts.
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The Zimmerli Drawing Society for Adults, Sep 26, 2009 to May 15, 2010
advanced and beginning artists an opportunity to draw
Category: New Brunswick Art event in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Event: Time: 12:30 pm
Fall session
Saturdays: September 26, October 10 and 24, November 14 and 21, December 5 / 12:30-2:30 pm
Spring session
Saturdays: February 27, March 13 and 27, April 10, May 1 and 15 / 12:30-2:30 pm
Fees: Fee: Zimmerli members: $90 per session (fall or spring)
Non-members: $100 per session (fall or spring)
In the Italian Renaissance, drawing or disegno was considered the underpinning of great painting and the essential means of conserving an artistic idea. While much contemporary art eschews drawing, it never ceases to be a fundamental tool of human perception and knowledge, akin to writing itself. Now the Zimmerli offers advanced and beginning artists an opportunity to draw, both from the live model and from the Museum’s vast collections. Each session is overseen by master artists Elizabeth Hutchinson or Margaret Owen. While the Museum will provide drawings boards, live models at select sessions, and professional instruction, participants must bring their own drawing pads, portable easels and other materials suggested by the instructors. The Drawing Society will open its new season with a special “En Plein Air” painting opportunity. The vibrant fall foliage of Rutgers campus will provide the backdrop for an afternoon of painting in nature (weather permitting.)
For more information on the Zimmerli Drawing Society, please call 732.932.7237, ext. 615.
For a downloadable registration form, please click here.
The form may be mailed to the museum’s education department or faxed (Attention: Education) to: 732.932.8201.
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Four Perspectives Through the Lens, Oct 03, 2009 to Mar 28, 2010
Soviet Art Photography in the 1970s-80s
Category: New Brunswick Art event in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Event: This exhibition presents a selection of more than sixty photographs from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art by Francisco Infante, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Boris Mikhailov, and Aleksandr Slyusarev, four major Soviet artists working with photography in 1970 –1980s. Photography was not officially considered an art in the Soviet Union at that time, and it was not taught in art schools. On the other hand, the amateur status of artistic photography, unrestricted by professional conventions or censorship, allowed great creative freedom and presented wide opportunities for experimentation. Soviet photographers made exceedingly canny, inventive, and highly individual use of the medium, expressing ideas that were both specific and universal in character.
These four artists demonstrate four different approaches to the photograph, and testify to the range and variety of fine art photography’s development in Soviet unofficial art. Two – Slyusarev and Mikhailov – are straightforward art photographers. Two others – Infante and Kupriyanov – are visual artists, who use photography as a medium to transcribe their creative ideas. Two of the four – Kupriyanov and Mikhailov – are concerned with social issues; the other two – Infante and Slyusarev – explore abstract categories, such as the geometry of light and reflections, often with reference to Russian avant-garde and/or western modernist practice.
The exhibition presents an opportunity for multiple comparisons and cross-references in areas such as the approaches to social themes, cultural and art historical associations, and various photographic techniques and artistic effects.
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Trail Blazers in the 21st Century:, Oct 03, 2009 to Mar 07, 2010
Contemporary Prints and Photographs published by Exit Art
Category: New Brunswick Art event in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Event: This focus exhibition of nine prints and nine photographs presents a compelling microcosm of America’s current art scene. Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Papo Colo, Petah Coyne, Ann Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, Elizabeth Murray, Paul Pfeiffer, Catherine Opie, Ruth Root, Michal Rovner, Carrie Mae Weems, Gary Simmons, Terry Winters, Su-en Wong, and Daniel Zeller. Their works exemplify how artists have adapted new technology to creative visions that challenge traditional aesthetic norms and address issues of race, gender, identity, society, or abstraction. These prints and photographs are from two portfolios published in 2001 and 2003 by Exit Art, a New York nonprofit cultural center; its mission is to explore the rich diversity shaping and transforming contemporary art and ideas in America. This exhibition, selected from the Zimmerli Art Museum’s collection, is the first display of a recent donation from Peter Frey. The exhibition is organized by Marilyn Symmes, Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts, and Curator of Prints and Drawings.
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Holiday Boutique, Nov 18, 2009 to Dec 23, 2009
Museum Store’s annual Holiday Boutique
Category: New Brunswick Art event in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Event: Always eagerly anticipated, the Museum Store’s annual Holiday Boutique will run from November 18th through December 23rd during regular museum hours. Unique gifts, hand-crafted items, books, toys, jewelry and more are offered for special gift giving or your personal enjoyment. Festive, fun, and liberally sprinkled with bargains, we invite you to shop early for the best selection. Proceeds benefit the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
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How We Live Now: Picturing Everyday Life in Children's Book, Dec 05, 2009 to May 23, 2010
Picturing Everyday Life in Children's Book
Category: New Brunswick Art event in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Event: From the 1960s onward, technical improvement in image reproduction and growing social awareness combined to produce a growing number of children’s books that reflect the diversity of American people and ways of life. Selected illustrations from the Zimmerli Art Museum’s collection exemplify this trend. Roger Duvoisin’s painterly gouache illustrations for It’s Time Now, 1969, casually capture the feeling of street life in the city. John Thompson’s realistic black and white illustrations for The Liquid Trap, 1976, a short novel for young readers, provide a more literal portrait of a girl’s visit with her family in the south. Barbara Beirne, E. B. Lewis, and Stephen T. Johnson were inspired by young people from their neighborhoods, rather than professional models, to create vibrant and authentic images of young people engaged in sport activities. Illustrations by Catherine Stock depict subjects ranging from a small boy’s relationship with neighbors, Miss Viola and Uncle Ed Lee, 1999, to the unexpected pregnancy of a teen-aged girl in Doll Baby, 2000. Books related to the illustrations are on view in the gallery, along with hands-on activities for visitors. The exhibition is organized by Gail Aaron, Assistant Curator, Original Illustrations for Children’s Books, Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts.
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