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Art News:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21, 2010
Contact: Katie Kazan, Director of Public Information
608.257.0158 x 237 or katie@mmoca.org
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Announces 2011 Exhibitions and Major Events
MADISON, WI--The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) is a
nonprofit, independent organization that exists to exhibit, collect,
preserve, and interpret modern and contemporary art. The museum’s
60,000-square-foot home, which opened in 2006, was designed by architect
Cesar Pelli and made possible by the generosity of W. Jerome Frautschi.
MMoCA features exhibitions by regional, national, and international
artists, and a permanent collection of approximately 5,000 works.
Exhibitions at MMoCA are free and open to the public. All information in
this advance release is subject to change.
Rob and Christian Clayton: Inside Out
through January 2, 2011
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first major
museum exhibition dedicated to the bold, colorful drawings, paintings,
and sculptures of Rob and Christian Clayton. The Clayton Brothers
collaborate closely to construct objects that are both narrative and
deeply personal. Front and center are the unique people, animals, and
places that occupy the outskirts of the American psyche.
Rob and Christian Clayton: Inside Out is organized by the Madison
Museum of Contemporary Art and is on view in the museum’s main
galleries.
True Self: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art
through June 19, 2011
The notion of the “self,” the essential quality that makes a person
distinct from all others, is a core theme in modern and contemporary art.
For the artist, the true self is fluid, not fixed; layered, not clearly
evident. The true self is both innate and determined by experience and
culture. Never consistent, it is often self-contradictory.
True Self: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary
Art explores the ways artists have understood and conveyed the
essence of the self--through facial expression, body language, dress, and
the particulars of setting--in a selection of paintings, sculpture,
prints, and photographs. Drawn from MMoCA’s permanent collection, the
exhibition lists a broad range of artists, including Thomas Hart Benton,
Sonya Clark, Chuck Close, John Coplans, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Leslie,
Diego Rivera, Cindy Sherman, Hollis Sigler, Raphael Soyer, and Ida
Wyman.
True Self is organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
and is on view in the museum’s Henry Street Gallery.
Shirin Neshat: Rapture
Through March 6, 2011
Projected on opposing walls, Shirin Neshat’s seminal video
Rapture (1999) simultaneously presents the male and female
experience in Iran, casting them as separate realities. As men wearing
casual Western clothing traverse the cobbled stones of an ancient city,
women in full-length black chadors cross a barren desert landscape. Other
scenes show homosocial interactions that mirror and deflect one another:
men pray; women chat or wash clothes.
Neshat, who was born and raised in Iran but has lived as an expatriate in
New York for decades, references Persian, Asian, and Western art
traditions in her films. With probing insight, sensitivity, and longing,
Rapture presents, for Western eyes, the complexities of life and
gender politics in Iran.
Rapture is on view in the museum’s State Street Gallery. It is on
extended loan from The Art Institute of Chicago.
Shinique Smith: Menagerie
January 22–May 8, 2011
In her first large-scale museum exhibition, multi-media artist
Shinique Smith presents site-specific installations, as well as two- and
three-dimensional works created over the last decade. Shinique Smith:
Menagerie presents almost fifty installations, paintings,
photographs, sculptures, and works on paper from 2002 to the present, as
well as two videos.
Works included in Shinique Smith: Menagerie combine complex social
and cultural references; they also demonstrate diverse art historical
associations and techniques, including Abstract Expressionism, colorfield
painting, minimalist sculpture, and Japanese calligraphy. Smith’s
sculptures and installations are composed of found objects and
second-hand clothing tied together to form a variety of forms, including
bales, totems, and reclining figures. Clothing and objects from friends
and family also appear in her two-dimensional mixed-media works, imbuing
them, like her sculptures, with personal meaning.
Trained as an art educator as well as a visual artist, Smith will work
with students from the Malcolm Shabazz City High School in Madison and
the Middleton Alternative Senior High School to install No dust, no
stain (2006) at MMoCA. This complex work, which includes sculptural
and two-dimensional elements, is reconfigured for each new installation
and demonstrates Smith’s ability to dissolve the line between the object
and the surrounding architecture.
Shinique Smith: Menagerie was organized by the Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, in association with Madison
Museum of Contemporary Art and will be on view in the museum’s main
galleries.
Young at Art
March 20–May 15, 2011
Young at Art presents works of art by Madison Metropolitan
School District students in kindergarten through Grade 12. The exhibition
is the result of a long-standing collaboration between the museum and the
school district’s fine arts department. In preparing for the exhibition,
each of Madison’s public school art teachers is invited to submit up to
three works created by his or her students. This process yields a full
range of technique, subject matter, and media, including drawing,
painting, collage, photography, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, fiber, and
computer-generated art.
Young at Art is organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary
Art and the Madison Metropolitan School District and will be on view in
MMoCA’s State Street Gallery.
Hair Affair: The Art of Hair
April 28, 2011
Hair Affair: The Art of Hair will showcase exotically artful hair
sculptures designed and executed by premier Madison-area salons. Hair
sculptures displayed on live models will take center-stage in a runway
show in the museum’s stunning lobby and glass staircase. The evening
event will also feature DJ grooves, seasonal hors d’oeuvres from Fresco,
cocktails, and a silent auction of spa and pampering-inspired packages.
Hair Affair is a fundraiser for the free exhibition and education
programs of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Gallery Night
May 6, 2011
Gallery Night is Madison’s semiannual celebration of the visual arts.
>From 5 to 9 pm on Friday, May 6, art lovers can look forward to free
demonstrations, new works of art, and live performances at arts venues
and galleries across the city. An interactive map showing participating
galleries will be published on mmoca.org.
Picturing Technology: Land and Machine
May 21–August 21, 2011
Commonly thought to be a positive force, technical innovations--from
the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Age--operate as a hallmark of
society. And, yet, throughout the ages, there have been reactions against
technology: movements against the advances of science and innovation and
in search of purer, more natural lifestyles.
Picturing Technology explores society’s conflicted responses to
technical innovation as evidenced in works from the permanent collection
of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Photographs, paintings,
prints, and installations by Tom Arendt, Warrington Colescott, Jim Dine,
Vernon Fisher, Archie Lieberman, O. Winston Link, Claes Oldenburg, and
Alyson Shotz among others, show objects such as airplanes, guns, ships,
and trains in urban and rural contexts. Works in the exhibition also
utilize and address recent transformations like computers and digital
photography that have allowed information and the storage of information
to mushroom.
Picturing Technology functions as a broad back-drop to a
concurrent MMoCA exhibition, The Industrial Modern (May
28–September 4, 2011), which focuses on the impacts of industrial change
on urban landscapes and communities in the early twentieth century.
Picturing Technology is organized by the Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art and will be on view in the museum’s main galleries.
The Industrial Modern
May 28, 2011–September 4, 2011
The rapid changes precipitated by the Industrial Revolution
transformed the physical, economic, and socio-political landscape of
Europe and the United States. These changes, including mechanization,
regimented labor, urbanization, coincided with a growing interest among
Western artists in visually representing the rhythms and realities of
everyday life. Presenting artists’ conflicted responses to industry,
labor, and the urban environment from the middle of the nineteenth
century to contemporary times, The Industrial Modern explores the
tensions inherent in the “culture of progress.”
Drawn from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s permanent collection,
The Industrial Modern features works by William Gropper, William
Klein, Käthe Kollwitz, Ferdinand Léger, Louis Lozowick, Joseph Pennell,
and Ben Shahn, among others. Each of these artists takes a unique
approach to the questions and challenges surrounding the nature of
industrial labor, the dynamism of the urban metropolis, and the power of
the machine.
In contrast to the urban focus of The Industrial Modern, the
concurrent MMoCA exhibition, Picturing Technology: Land and Machine
(May 21 – August 21, 2011), addresses how technological innovation
transformed society’s relationship to landscape and agriculture in the
rural environment.
The Industrial Modern is organized by the Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art and will be on view in the museum’s State Street
Gallery.
The Nature of Society: Visualizations of Modern and Contemporary
Life
June 25, 2011–Summer 2011
The Nature of Society is the second in a trilogy of
exhibitions that examines defining themes in the art of our time. The
first exhibition focused on the notion of the “self” as a core theme in
modern and contemporary art. The final exhibition in the series, opening
in 2012, will address the nature of reality, as explored by modern and
contemporary artists.
The Nature of Society is organized by the Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art and will be on view in the museum’s Henry Street
Gallery.
Art Fair on the Square
July 9–10, 2011
For hundreds of thousands of area residents, Art Fair on the Square
has become central to summers in Madison. It is also the most important
annual fundraiser for the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, supporting
the museum’s free exhibitions and education programs.
Dates and hours for Art Fair on the Square 2011 are: Saturday, July 9 (9
am–6 pm) and Sunday, July 10 (10 am–5 pm).
The Chicago Imagists
Paintings, Sculptures, and Works on Paper from the Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art
September 10, 2011–January 2, 2012
In the late 1960s, Chicago audiences were introduced to a vibrant new
generation of artists whose work would soon be identified collectively as
Chicago Imagism. These young artists were drawn--like the Pop artists in
New York, Los Angeles, and London, who were a generation older--to the
everyday urban world and popular culture. But despite these common
interests, Chicago Imagist artists were more focused on a fantasy art of
brilliant color, graphic strength, and free line; their sources and
inspirations included comic books, outsider art, and surrealism. The
Chicago Imagists trafficked in exuberant and irreverent satire that spoke
to the political and social foibles, violence, and whimsy of contemporary
life at the end of the tumultuous 1960s.
The Chicago Imagists: Paintings, Sculptures, and Works on Paper from
the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presents more than 120 works
by Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Ray Yoshida, and
other members of this significant group. Included are consummate
paintings, sculptures, and unique works on paper from the museum’s Bill
McClain Collection of Chicago Imagism. This exceptional private
collection, built over thirty years of close contact with the original
artists, was acquired by MMoCA in 2010 and will be presented to a public
audience for the first time as part of The Chicago Imagists
exhibition.
The Chicago Imagists is organized by the Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art and will be on view in the museum’s main galleries.
Arts Ball 2011
October 29, 2011
Each fall, art lovers gather to dance and dine in support of the
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
Arts Ball has become a Madison institution, an occasion to build and
renew friendships, while contributing to the continued financial health
of both institutions.
Holiday Art Fair
November 18–20, 2011
Holiday Art Fair provides shoppers an opportunity to purchase
handcrafted gifts in the stunning architectural spaces of the Madison
Museum of Contemporary Art and Overture Center for the Arts. In addition
to unique works by artists chosen through a jury process, shoppers can
enjoy live holiday music, a Gourmet Gallery, a live auction, and the
return of the Rediscovered Art & Treasures Sale.
Holiday Art Fair is a collaborative project of MMoCA and Overture Center
for the Arts in support of their free exhibitions and community outreach
programs.
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Hours at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art are Tuesday–Thursday
(noon–5 pm); Friday (noon–8 pm); Saturday (10 am–8 pm); and Sunday
(noon–5 pm). The museum is closed on Mondays.
Admission to exhibitions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is
free of charge. MMoCA is supported through memberships and through
generous contributions and grants from individuals, corporations,
agencies, and foundations. Important support is also generated through
auxiliary group programs; special events; rental of the museum’s lobby,
lecture hall, and rooftop garden; and sales through the Museum
Store.
Katie Kazan
Director of Public Information
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
608.257.0158 x 237
Sign up for MMoCA email updates
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