Category: Exhibitions

… what the mind and senses conceive… Margaret Sutton

 

Margaret Sutton Exhibition

Convergence Gallery, Simpson Library

April 18 – September 13, 2019

Opening Reception: April 18, 5-7pm

… what the mind and senses conceive… Margaret Sutton is an exhibition that has been curated by students in Art History Professor Marjorie Och’s ARTH 317: Laboratory in Museum Studies. These studies have been working in collaboration with UMW Galleries and through their research, they have learned more of 20th century American art and Margaret Sutton, as well as prepare for careers as museum professionals.

Margaret Sutton was a UMW studio art alum from 1926. After her time at Mary Washington, she moved to New York City where she met Alfred Levitt, a painter, and his wife Gertrude, a lawyer. The three of them lived together in a Greenwich Village apartment from 1983 until Gertrude Levitt’s death in 1983 and Margaret Sutton’s death in 1990. In 1993, Alfred Levitt gave more than 3,000 works of art from his personal collection to the University of Mary Washington. The work given not only included Levitt’s paintings, but also the work of the infamous Margaret Sutton.

This exhibition examines the rich work and career of Margaret Sutton and represents the dedication and hard work of the UMW Department of Art and Art History!

 

Special thanks to Professor Och and her students: Kira Alfano, Krista Beucler, Laurel Davidson, Anna Elmore, Shaheen Fazel, Gabby Gallier, Matthew Geczy, Bucky Goforth, Paige Hildebrand, Meggy Hinson, Juliet Landeck, R.J. McKenna, Ally Pryor, Jordan Skillman, Hannah St. Onge, Alexa Steele , and Cara Wissinger.

2019 Annual Student Art Exhibition

Opening Reception: March 14th, 5-7pm, duPont Gallery

Public lecture by juror, Nate Larson, March 21st, 5pm, Monroe Hall rm 116

About the Juror:   

Nate Larson is a contemporary artist working with photographic media, artist books and digital video.

His projects have been widely shown across the US and internationally as well as featured in numerous publications and media outlets, including Wired, The Guardian, The Picture Show from NPR, Slate, CNN, Hyperallergic, Gizmodo, Buzzfeed News, Vice Magazine, the New York Times, Utne Reader, Hotshoe Magazine, Flavorwire, the BBC News Viewfinder, Frieze Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, APM’s Marketplace Tech Report, The Washington Post, and Art Papers. His artwork is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum Atlanta, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago.

His recent project Geolocation, in collaboration with Marni Shindelman, tracks GPS coordinates associated with Twitter tweets and pairs the text with a photograph of the originating site to mark the virtual information in the real world. New site-specific work from the series was recently completed for Salisbury University Art Galleries in Maryland, Third Space Gallery in New Brunswick, Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts in California, and the Format International Photography Festival in the UK. Larson Shindelman recently created site-specific public artworks for the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Public Art Commission, the Indianapolis International Airport, and the DUMBO Business Improvement District. Geolocation was featured in the “State of the Art” survey exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2014, now touring nationally, including recently at the Mint Museum in Charlotte and Frist Center in Nashville. Flash Powder Projects published a monograph of the project in January 2016.

Nate Larson is currently serving as Chair of the Photography Department at MICA / Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He was recently the Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Artist Fellow at Duke University, an artist in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Florida, and a Rubys Artist Fellow with the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.

Award Winners:

Each year, six works done by student artists are selected to receive awards. This year’s winner are…

Anika Hussain, She Breathed Once, 2018, Mixed Media on Canvas

Award of Excellence

Claudia Duncan, Untitled, 2018, Wax, Wood and Lightbulb

Award of Excellence

Emily Pawlica, Emerge, 2018, Plaster, Hand Dyed Fabric and Makeup on Wood and Plaster

Award of Excellence

Tara Meeks, Personal Space, 2018, Oil on Canvas

Melchers Gray Purchase Award

Samantha Van Heest, Air Dancer, 2018, Oil on Canvas

Emil R. Schnellock Award for Excellence in Painting

Courtney Chetister, They Go Marching, 2018, Multimedia Installation Sculpture

Ann Elizabeth Collins Memorial Art Award

Student Work Currently on Display:

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Lost Stories, Found Images: Portraits of Jews in Wartime Amsterdam by Annemie Wolff

Ridderhof Martin Gallery

Exhibition on view: April 5th- June 28th

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 5th, 5-7pm

Last Portraits Documentary Screening: April 5, 7pm, in Pollard Hall 304

Affiliated talk by Armin Langer: Jewish Past and Present in Amsterdam, April 9, 4pm, in Combs Hall 139

Photo of Judith Trijtel, 1943 by Annemie Wolff © Monica Kaltenschnee, The Netherlands

This powerful exhibition presents rarely captured humanity and emotion in its striking depiction of life in Nazi occupied Amsterdam. Annemie Wolff was born in Germany but moved to Amsterdam in 1933 because of the anti-Semitic policies of the new Nazi regime; some of her greatest work comes from the era of the Second World War and the German occupation of Western Europe. This exhibition features never before seen portraits of both Jews and gentiles who lived in South Amsterdam between January and October of 1943–three years into the five-year long German occupation of the Netherlands.

Amazingly, these photographs were not discovered until 2008– some fourteen years after Wolff’s death. A Dutch historian of photography, Simon Kool, discovered 100 rolls of film–which contained the portraits of 434 individuals during the occupation–in the attic of Wolff’s heir. Once the portraits were discovered a search began to locate the people who were pictured or any of their remaining family. To date over half of the people photographed have been identified through research and interviews.

This compelling exhibition includes 26 photographs, as well as didactic materials, which allow one to examine Wolff’s work through not only the lens of the history of photography, but also the lenses of history, religion, and sociology, as well as through one’s own cultural or personal experiences.

April 19th – September 18th, 2018: Margaret Sutton: Face to Face

Margaret Sutton, Untitled (Seventeen costumed figures), ink on board, 1950s. Accession Number 1993.11.0181

University of Mary Washington Convergence Gallery

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 19th 2018, 5-7 pm

Exhibition on view: April 19th – September 18th, 2018

Exhibition curated by Professor Och’s ARTH 317: Laboratory in Museum Studies class: Yoko Aita, Sara Farnor, Campbell Hartley, Cheyenne Johnson, Myranda Morrison, Mary Novitsky, Mele K. Richardson, Olivia Sanderson, Jessica Schmitt, Kyle Welty, and Erin White.

September 6 – October 14, 2018: Museums as Viewing Machines: Work by Jeffrey Abt

Ridderhof Martin Gallery
September 6 – October 14
Opening Reception: September 6, 5-7pm
Artist Talk in the Gallery: September 7, noon

Jeffrey Abt, Wandering Gallery project (translation and representation), open, multiple media, 2006

Abt’s work reflects his interest in museums, the mechanics of presenting work in a museum, and the visual culture of museums. “Museums as Viewing Machines” will display two bodies of work, Abt’s Museum series, and his Wandering Gallery project.

The Museum series focuses on the visual parallels between galleries and sacred spaces, particularly religious sanctuaries. Abt is intrigued by environments created to foster contemplation, whether for the purposes of studying artworks or for spiritual introspection.

The Wandering Gallery project explores the behind-the-scenes, never-ending cycle of unpacking and packing, installation and de-installation, documentation, and interpretation associated with changing exhibitions.

These works, in proximity, invite viewers to reflect on the nature of the places where they see works of art, especially museums, with regard to their architectural interiors, as sites of transience where objects come and go, and the mechanics by which works are presented.

Jeffrey Abt is a Professor in the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History of Wayne State University. He has a BFA degree from Drake University and he studied at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem before completing an MFA at Drake. Abt pursued curatorial and exhibitions work at the Wichita Art Museum, the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago, and the University’s Smart Museum of Art, before coming to Wayne State. He’s an artist and writer, his artwork is in museum and corporate collections throughout the United States, and he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in America and abroad. Abt’s writings include the books American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute published in 2012 by the University of Chicago Press and Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum: A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. He is also a co-editor of the Museum History Journal.