| Archive: Spring 2009 |
suddenly: where we live now
January 24 - April 12, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24, 5-7 pm
Curator and Artist Walk Through: Saturday, January 24, 4pm
Curator and Artist Panel Discussion
Wednesday, January 28, 4:15 pm
Lyman Hall
Fritz Haeg, Artist Lecture
Wednesday, February 11, 4:15 pm
Lyman Hall
Suddenly Sprawl
Thursday, April 2, 8-11pm
Pomona College Museum of Art Courtyard
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| ©Reed College Fritz Haeg , "Animal Estates:05 Portland, Oregon " 2008 Installation Detail | ||
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In response to Sieverts’s observation, the exhibition—which is global in its scope and reach—seeks to imagine the possibilities of spaces and experiences that have an indigenous history (the parking lot, for instance), but that exist beyond historical definitions of city and countryside, and conventional material cycles of development and disuse. Through a myriad of representations, texts, and activities that offer far reaching symbolic and strategic alternatives to capitalism’s functionalist agendas, the artists and writers in this expansive global project are re-imagining the landscape where we live now as an independent identity to be reshaped in the hands and minds of its occupants.
suddenly includes a range of projects and media such as painting, photography, and video, and also includes community-based activities such as communal dinners, spontaneous public lectures, and a city-wide poster initiative. The exhibition will evolve as it tours the world through 2012.
The Pomona College Museum of Art iteration of suddenly includes the following artists: photographer Marc Joseph Berg, New York; photographer Zoe Crosher, Los Angeles; filmmaker Michael Damm, Oakland; painter Molly Dilworth, Brooklyn; architect, landscape designer, and social practice artist Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles; sculptor and glass artist Elias Hansen, Tacoma; social practice artist Michael Hebb, Seattle; sculptor and photographer Frank Heath, Brooklyn; conceptual artists Hadley+Maxwell, Berlin; new media artist Michael McManus, Portland; social practice artist Mike Merrill, Portland; the collective Mostlandian Citizens Lady O and Junior Ambassador, Portland; photographer Shawn Records, Portland; painter Storm Tharp, Portland; and sculptor and author Oscar Tuazon, Paris.
suddenly comprises a set of exhibitions curated by Stephanie Snyder, director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, with an annotated reader edited by author Matthew Stadler, and a series of public events that attempt to re-imagine cityscapes with contemporary art, literature, and the conversations they spark. For more extensive project information, including event listings, audio recordings, and to order project publications, visit: www.suddenly.org.
Art and Activism in the Twentieth Century:
Selections from the Permanent Collection
January 24 - April 12, 2009
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| Charles White, Love Letter 1971 |
Many American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made
their art work an integral part of their political activism. Some have created
posters for specific campaigns, such as the election of political candidates or
fund raising for civil rights organizations. Others have produced prints or
paintings that speak to broader social or political issues, such as the
pollution of the environment, the exploitation of agricultural and industrial
workers, and racial intolerance. The images are sometimes direct and hard
hitting, sometimes poetic and introspective. This exhibition contains a sampling
of such works from the late 1920s to the present drawn primarily from the
permanent collection of the Pomona College Museum of Art.
Curated by Frances Pohl, Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds ’56 Professor in the
Humanities and Professor of Art History, with the assistance of Rochelle
LeGrandsawyer ('08), in conjunction with the art history seminar “Art and
Activism.”
Artists included:
Ben Shahn, Kara Walker, Hung Liu, Wright Morris, Robbie Conol, Patrick Nagatani,
Robert Rauschenberg, Rockwell Kent, Charles White, June Wayne, Enrique Chagoya,
Frits Scholder, Sandow Birk, and Kim Abeles.
Pomona College Senior Exhibition
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Bare With Me
May 1 - May 17, 2009
Opening Reception: May 6, 2009 5-7PM
Artist include:
Hai Minh Nguyen
Jessie Bigelow
Rody Lopez
Kendall Fleisher
Maria Paredes
Elizabeth Farias
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