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Show r EXHIBITIONS suit 6: Emre Huner On view through February 10, 2013 salt 6: Emre Huner features the premier of a new ftlm by the Turkish Berlin-based ai explores questions surrounding progress, modernity, science fiction, and utopian impu Bierstadt to Warhol: American huli,ms in the H1!st Opening February 15, 2013 Biers/ad! to Warhol: American Indians in the Wes/ is an ambitious exhibition compri! I 00 oil paintings, sculpture, and works on paper drawn primarily from the Diane and Collection. It examines depictions of American Indian identity (by both natives and nc diverse array of styles: from the traditional European schools to Modernist abstractior renderings of cultural motifs. This exhibition negotiates the devices and implications o historical genre, to show that a portrait can either fashion a mythologized persona or , personal dynainic that speaks to lived experience. salt 7: L11net1e Jfodom-Boakre Opening February 21, 2013 salt 7: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is the seventh instalhuent in the Museum's series of e, featuring new and innovative art from around the world. For her first solo exhibition i United States, British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will show never-before exhibited Employing a palette and brushwork not unlike that of traditional western portraiture, · luscious, gestural paintings consider the role of the black figure, as both subject and a historical canon. Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism On view through March 18, 2013 Recognized as one of the four major Regionalist artists, Dale Nichols created artwork during the Great Depression, when he turned toward the local landscape in hopes of 1 uniquely American art. This exhibition showcases more than twenty paintings that sp, artist's long career. 5 Blocks On view through April 21, 2013 5 Blocks is an exhibition of youth artwork created by students at Hawthorne Element High School in collaboration with UMFA educators. By investigating a five-block area near their school students examined how we shape live in and how those spaces shape us. Mike Disfarmer: Cleburne Co1111tv Portraits On view through July 14, 2013 A small town photographer from Heber Springs, Arkansas, Disfarmer used glass plat( create snapshot-size photographs as keepsakes for the local community. The stark mi studio backdrops, especially those used during the 1930s and through the war years, 1 his subjects and in doing so create intimate, deeply human portraits of them. The digr and the vagaries of rural life can be read in the faces and demeanor of the many peoi: his "penny portraits." |
