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Sam Taylor-Wood
August 02 – October 05, 2008
Bram Stoker’s Chair II, 2005
C-print
48 x 38 in.
A leading artist of her generation, Sam Taylor-Wood came to prominence in the mid-1990s as one of the YBA’s (Young British Artists), the British art movement that propelled the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin to celebrity status for their provocative and sensational works. Taylor-Wood has since become renowned for deftly manipulating the signature media of our age—photography, film, and video—into compelling psychological portraits that tap into the ethos of our times. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, this is the first major museum exhibition of Taylor-Wood’s work in the United States.
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Perspectives 162: Snow
July 18 – September 28, 2008
Libbie Masterson
Antarctica 360, (detail) 2008
7 feet tall, 22 feet diamater overall installation
Courtesy the artist and Barbara Davis
Gallery, Houston
Perspectives 162: Snow features installation works by Los Angeles-based, conceptual artist Allie Bogle and Houston-based photographer Libbie Masterson. For this exhibition, both Bogle and Masterson have created immersive environments in which viewers are invited to either engage in playful interaction or quiet meditation. In their respective works, each artist speaks to landscape, but with a particular articulation that questions the viewer’s perception of what is natural and what is man-made. The subtext of their work points to larger social issues surrounding contemporary society’s disconnection from nature and its simultaneous desire to “recreate” the natural, even as it thaws into a spectacle of artificiality. A Perspectives-format catalogue accompanies this exhibition and features an essay written by curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, a checklist of featured works, and biographical and bibliographical information on the artists.
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Cinema Remixed & Reloaded:
Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970
October 18, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Bernie Serle
video still from Its AMatter of Time, 2003
DVD projection, run time 3 min. 30 sec, looped.
Courtesy the artist and Michael Stevenson Gallery,
Capetown South Africa
Collaborating with The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Cinema Remixed & Reloaded is the first exhibition to examine the critical contributions of black women film and video artists to the field of contemporary art. Featuring projections, installations, interactive CD-ROM projects, experimental film and video work the exhibition spans across generations and geographic boundaries to present work by more than 40 artists. Works by established artists who began working with the medium in the 1970s such as Adrian Piper, Carroll Parrott Blue, Senga Nengudi, Julie Dash, and Howardena Pindell, are presented along side of works created by mid-career and emerging artists such as Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Bernie Searle, Kara Walker, Marìa Magdelena Campos-Pons, Elizabeth Axtman, , Zoë Charlton, Jessica Ann Peavy, Tracey Rose, Lauren Kelley, Lauren Woods, and Xaviera Simmons. A significant catalogue co-published by The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, accompanies this exhibition and functions as an essential reader on the subject of black women artists and the moving image since 1970.
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