May 2008
On June 7 and 8, the Museum will host a Gee’s Bend weekend. Don’t miss your chance to meet and talk with several of the Gee’s Bend quilters, have a book about the quilts signed and try your hand at making a paper quilt square to add to our colorful clothesline. Sponsored by Target, Saturday will be a free day geared toward families. Sunday will feature a book signing from 3-5 p.m. and an artmaking activity. A Sunday forum featuring the Gee’s Bend quilters is sold out. Details on both days are available at www.denverartmuseum.org.
The weekend celebration is held in conjunction with Gee’s Bend: The architecture of the Quilt, on view through July 6, 2008. This popular exhibition is a sequel to an earlier, successful exhibition of stunningly original quilts designed by the women of Gee’s Bend, Ala. The critically acclaimed show features 49 unique quilts created from the 1920s through 2005 by four generations of women from this small, isolated farming community. Transforming an essential necessity into an art form, these quilts express their stories of family, community and basic human survival. Gee’s Bend quilts are widely acclaimed as spectacular examples of modern, abstract art and their makers as brilliantly creative self-taught artists. After leaving the Denver Art Museum, the show will travel to its final venue in Philadelphia—don’t miss your chance to see these beautiful pieces. Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt is included in general admission.
A new gallery space on the 3rd level of the Hamilton Building debuts with Fuse Box: Bjørn Melhus. The installation by Norwegian/German video artist Bjørn Melhus opened in conjunction with his appearance on May 22 as part of the 2008 Logan Lecture Series. Melhus has had solo exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. His invented worlds distort images and sounds from television into sinister, grotesque creations designed to generate both fright and fascination in the viewer. Casting himself as an actor in a playground of bizarre, detached imagery and sampled sounds, Melhus seeks to simultaneously mock cultural clichés while re-animating the ideas underlying them with the potency and allure of fear and wonder. Fuse Box: Bjørn Melhus will be on view through fall 2008.
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism will open on Saturday, June 13. The approximately 40 paintings in this exhibition, ranging in date from the 1850s to the early 20th century, include many of the finest examples of mid- and late-19th century French and American landscapes in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. It offers a striking survey of plein-air painting from Gustave Courbet and continuing with Charles Francois Daubigny and others of the Barbizon School, all of whom had a great impact on the generation of French Impressionists that followed, including Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Caillebotte and Pierre- August Renoir. Their influence was also felt by a number of their American contemporaries including Childe Hassam, Edward Henry Potthast, Julian Alden Weir, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman and John Singer Sargent. This exhibition offers the viewer the opportunity to see what truly kindred spirits these French and American painters were. Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism is presented by US Bank. The exhibition, which will be on view through September 7, 2008, is included in general admission.
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