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Alice Spencer, Fabricating Time: Paintings and Collected Textiles
October 31 – December 14, 2009 (Closed November 11 and 25-29)
Textiles are one of the oldest forms of material culture, and convey important ideas about human history, social values, and personal identity. Having collected examples of textiles from different culture groups around the world, Alice Spencer uses these rich colors, textures, and histories as a springboard for her own paintings. This exhibition was conceived of as a dialogue between the paintings and the source of their inspiration, and both are on view in a dynamic visual relationship that celebrates the beauty of each art form.
Artists Collect
October 31 – December 14, 2009 (Closed November 11 and 25-29)
We all know that artists make art; but how many of them collect art? And what do they choose to collect? In conjunction with the concurrent exhibition in the Scudder Gallery, Alice Spencer, Fabricating Time: Paintings and Collected Textiles, which focuses on textiles which an artist collected and then used as inspiration for her paintings, we took a look through our permanent collection to select work that was collected by other artists and then donated to the Museum.
Highlighted in this special exhibition are works by many regionally know artists who donated, as well as works donated by them, such as: Sigmund Abeles and William Eickhorst; Beverly Hallam and Utagawa Hiroshige; John Hatch and Yasuo Kuniyoshi; John Laurent and Robert Laurent; Elyot Henderson and Bernard Karfiol; Winifred Clark Shaw and Janvier Rollande; Mary and Edwin Scheier, and Henry Varnum Poor and Peter Voulkos; Hebert Waters and Barry Moser; and David Kupferman and Lawrence Kupferman.
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Exhibitions and programs are supported in part by the Friends of the Museum of Art.