Fall 2006
Fall 2006 Exhibitions
October 25 - December 31, 2006
Exhibition Catalogs Available
[Grid < > Matrix]
As a simple method of arranging individual elements into perpendicular lines, the grid is a familiar pattern in contemporary life -- from traffic patterns to computer screen pixels -- sorting out the visible world in a way that is easy to recognize and navigate. While the grid remains a fundamental element in aesthetics and technology, the matrix takes the grid structure and pushes it into a new digital dimension, transforming its structure to embody relationships, connections, and organization in new and intentionally capricious ways. Gathering artworks that illustrate the tenuous and interconnected nature of the grid and matrix, [Grid < > Matrix] explores how these concepts relate or diverge as they organize our understanding of aesthetics, art, and media.
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Models and Prototypes
Models are used as tools in countless professions and academic disciplines. Whether developing a new theory or working on a new building, models help us explore and test new ideas or designs, and as such they include an aspect of experimentation. While sketches, notes, and sculptural maquettes are the kinds of models that traditionally served as preparatory steps in the creative process, artists of the early twentieth century began to think about them as works of art and vastly expanded their use. Examining the development and intersection of artistic approaches to models since the 1920s, Models and Prototypes encompasses a wide range of styles and media--including installations, sculptural objects, prints, photography, and painting--and considers them in three interrelated groups: multiple as model, conceptual models, and structural models.
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Pure Invention: Tom Friedman
A St. Louis native and alumnus of Washington University's College of Art (BFA, 1988), Tom Friedman's art has been exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally. A showcase of his work organized by College of Art faculty member Michael Byron, Pure Invention is the inaugural exhibition in the Kemper Art Museum's College of Art Gallery. A mix of sculpture, installation pieces, and prints -- two of which were created at Washington University's Island Press -- the show offers an exciting opportunity to experience the work of this visionary contemporary artist.
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Teaching Gallery
The Teaching Gallery at the Kemper Art Museum allows faculty and students to integrate works from the Museum's collection into undergraduate and graduate curricula. Located within the Bernoudy Permanent Collection Gallery, this space offers exciting possibilities for cross-disciplinary dialogue among faculty, students, and the community.
Pressing Issues: The Social Agency of Prints
In fall 2006, Elizabeth Childs, associate professor of art history and archaeology, and Lisa Bulawsky, associate professor of printmaking, will inaugurate the Museum's Teaching Gallery with a display on the making and historicizing of printmaking. Through this paired course and special exhibition, students will examine prints in their historical role as reproductions in a pre-photographic age, as representations of shared religious and social values, and as vehicles of social or political critique. Works on display will include prints by Rembrandt, Albrecht Dürer, Honore Daumier, Edgar Degas, Kathe Kollwitz, Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith, and Sue Coe.
