Prints and Drawings

Gallery 353 works on paper

From curator Dennis Jon, an illustrated list of works on paper in Gallery 353 (as of 9.14.22). The current rotation is up until January 29, 2023.

“I thought I’d share the checklist for the “Recent Acquisitions: Postwar and Contemporary Works on Paper” exhibition now on view in Gallery 353. With diversity in mind, you’ll note that there are a number of artists of color represented, plus Latin American artists, and others.

Black artists: Camille Billops, Rico Gatson, and Jack Whitten
Latin American artists: Luis Cruz Azaceta (Cuba), Teresa Burga (Peru), and Valeska Soares (Brazil)
Native American artist George Morrison (Grand Portage Anishinabe)
Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib

This exhibition will be on view through January 29, 2023.”

Gallery 353 Recent Acquisitions-Illustrated Checklist-040422

Color Woodcuts in the Arts and Crafts Era

Final panels for the exhibition:

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Final Labels:

Labels Part 1

Labels Part II

From artsmia.org:

September 14, 2019 – March 22, 2020
Gallery 315 and 316
Free Exhibition
Color woodcuts enjoyed a revival during the Arts and Crafts movement, whose leaders believed that one antidote to rampant mechanization was a return to handcraft. Artists in the early 20th century thus began carving, inking, and printing each impression by hand. Though demanding, this highly personal process revealed the direct interaction between artists and their materials.

This directness is one of the pleasures of the 80 or so color woodcuts in this exhibition. Most were recently acquired by Mia, and most come from the United States, Britain, and German-speaking countries. A remarkable number—nearly half—are by women. Many works also reveal an interest in the tenets of Japanese design. The delights include Margaret Patterson’s bouquets, Pedro de Lemos’s windblown trees, Frances Gearhart’s paeans to the California coast, Eliza Draper Gardiner’s childhood scenes, and Frank Morley Fletcher’s romantic landscapes.

Growing the Collection – Label Copy and Resources

LABEL COPY_Growing the Collection

Here are a couple more points of information, coming from the pop-up gallery training:

Samuel Levi Jones deconstructed medical text for his Agent Orange collage.

And the Ray Johnson Estate had done a 4-page paper on Hat with Red Eyes. The PDF is attached:

Hat with Red Eyes – Ray Johnson – from Dennis Michael Jon

Here is a New Yorker article on Lonnie Holley:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/lonnie-holleys-glorious-improvisations

Here is some information on artist Thornton Dial from Dennis Michael Jon:

here’s a link to an article that mentions that Dial was raised by a household of women. My comments on his reverence for woman and their roles in black families and the community were likely drawn from various sources.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2056700,00.html
Here’s a long quote from Dial that I found on the Souls Grown Deep Foundation’s website. He doesn’t mention being raised by women in this text, but does talk about his personal values and shares his thoughts on the importance of family.
http://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/thornton-dial
Also, see text passages on the subject of the tiger and the woman in Dial’s art beginning on page 145 of “Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper.”
https://books.google.com/books?id=zLfqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=thorton+dial+symbolism+women&source=bl&ots=nnfDOwbyA6&sig=ACfU3U33HFpz5JT3tNkaIOGenxCEZAyfhw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_9KfOs4LhAhUG1qwKHRhPDXcQ6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=thorton%20dial%20symbolism%20women&f=false

Die Neuen Wilden: Neo-Expressionism in Germany

This exhibition runs September 24, 2016 – June 11, 2017 in Galleries 315 and 316. Here is a link to the information on artsmia.org:

Die Neuen Wilden

From Docent Susan Rouse, an interview with curator Dennis Jon, Senior Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings is within the attached document, which is “intended to simply provide a broad overview of information and gallery organization as highlighted by the exhibition coordinator.”

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