WHAT

The exhibition On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960, on view at The Noguchi Museum through April 24, 2011, presents a comprehensive survey of Isamu Noguchi's most important artistic relationships with influential figures in art, dance, architecture and design. Guest curator Amy Wolf will discuss the women artists who befriended, collaborated, and supported Noguchi early in his career. Ms. Wolf will highlight the accomplishments of Marion Greenwood, Frida Kahlo, Ruth Page, and Yuriko—widely admired in their time as a mural artist, a painter of self-portraits, and dancer/choreographers, respectively. While these women were important to the artist personally, they also provided models of independence and ambition, seeking out oppor tunities for themselves and their work in the early 20th century.

WHEN

Sunday, January 9, 2010, 3 pm

WHERE

The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33^rd Road (between Vernon Boulevard and 10^th Street)
Long Island City, New York
718-204-7088

Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. Information: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org.

ADMISSION

Free with Museum admission.
$10 adults; $5 senior citizens and students with valid ID; free for children
under 12 and New York City public high-school students with valid ID.

AMY WOLF

Amy Wolf, who has been an independent ar t dealer and curator for twenty years, has organized a number of exhibitions that combine historical and contemporary art. These have included, in addition to On Becoming an Artist, The Muse (2004, Leslie Tonkonow Art + Projects, New York City), about artists' muses, and Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, developed under the auspices of the Public Art Fund (1999, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York City), among others. Ms. Wolf has also worked to uncover the careers of unsung women artists through writing, lecturing, and curating such exhibitions as Following Tradition: Contemporary Art in Needlework by Xenobia Bailey, Amy Berk and Judith Flaxman (2003, Kraushaar Galleries, New York City); Significant Others: Artist Wives of Artists, 1910–1950 (1993, Kraushaar Galleries, New York City); and the New York Society of Women Artists, 1925 (1987, ACA Galleries, New York City). As an art dealer, she has handled important collections of twentieth-century art, including those of artist and collector Albert Eugene Gallatin.

Ms. Wolf received her B.A. from The University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, with a focus on arts administration.

RELATED EXHIBITION

On view through April 24, 2011, On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960 integrates artworks and documentary and archival materials to examine Noguchi's relationships with figures such as artists Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Frida Kahlo; designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller; architects including Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Kahn, an d Richard Neutra; and dancers and choreographers Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, and Merce Cunningham, among many others both famous and less well-known. In so doing, it provides a singular portrait of the art world at critical points during the twentieth century.

THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM

Designed by Isamu Noguchi and occupying a renovated industrial building dating from the 1920s, The Noguchi Museum exhibits a comprehensive selection of the artist's works in all mediums, displayed in a series of indoor galleries and the sculpture garden. Together, this installation and the Museum's special exhibitions expand the context for Noguchi's work and illuminate his influential legacy of innovation. For more information: www.noguchi.org.

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