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Spring arts prepare to bloom
by Andrea Fineman
Managing Editor
Arts | 1/15/08
Posted online at 12:33 AM EST on 1/15/08
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Three exhibitions will run from Jan. 23 through April 13 at the Rose Art Museum. An opening reception will take place Jan. 23 from 6 to 8 pm.
"Empires and Environments" features works from the Rose's permanent collection as well as from emerging artists. According to a press release, this exhibition examines the dynamic between cultural, psychological and natural environments and the "structuring of 'empires' in symbolic, imaginary, and real terms." Paintings by such artists as Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock will come out of the Rose's storied vault to accompany works by contemporary artists like Rudd Van Empel, John Powers and Nathalie Frank. The exhibition is curated by Dominique Nahas, an independent curator and art critic from New York City, and Margaret Evangeline, a painter who works with such materials as gunshot and mirror-polished stainless steel.
"Broken Home, 1997/2007" is a recreation of an influential 1997 exhibition in the Greene Naftali Gallery in New York and is curated by Meg O'Rourke and Caroline Schneider. The Rose's exhibit is the first example of a museum recreating a commercial gallery's exhibit, though galleries often present museum-quality shows, crossing the line between commercialism and the sanctity of the museum.
"Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries" also features modern and contemporary works from the Rose's permanent collection. The exhibit, curated by Adelina Jedrzejczak, the Ann Tanenbaum Assistant Curator at the Rose, investigates the prominence of geometrical abstraction in American art of the 1950s and 1960s by exploring the presence of said phenomenon in the European art of the 1920s and 1930s. The main focus of the exhibit is two paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, an American artist of the 1960s, influenced by Jean Arp. Ellsworth's work serves as a bridge between early geometric abstraction and the minimalism and reductive art of later years.
The Women's Studies and Research Center will also put on a couple of art exhibits: "Healing, Community and Transformation: Student Visions from Johannesburg" from Jan. 16 through Feb. 26 (opening reception will be Jan. 23 at 5 p.m.) as well as an installation by Lynne Avadenka. The former features photographs by Naomi Safran-Hon '08 and linocuts by South African students. Safran-Hon worked with AIDS orphans at the Art Therapy Centre in Johannesburg in 2006 as an Ethics Center Student Fellow; the students who made the linocuts come from The Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, a socially active art school in South Africa. The event is part of the yearlong celebration of the Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life's 10th anniversary and encompasses a showing of A Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art, a documentary film about The Artist Proof Studio to take place on Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. at the WSRC as well as a panel discussion of "HIV/AIDS and the Gendered Politics of Care in South Africa," Feb. 12 at noon in Olin-Sang 101.
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