Art Break: Contemporary Prints 5.5.22
Here is a recording of the Art Break on Contemporary Prints with Cara Richardson:
Art Break Contemporary Prints 05.05.22
Prints
Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo
From the curatorial department, here are training materials for the new exhibition “Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo,” up from December 14, 2019 – December 6, 2020 in Gallery 226, 227, 237.
Docent Training_Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo, Rotation 1, Dec. 2020
From the artsmia website:
“Originally a painter trained in oil, Hagiwara Hideo (1913–2007) became ill with tuberculosis and turned to printmaking in 1954. From the start his prints were of an abstract nature, and for 50 years he was a constant innovator in his choice of motifs, style, and technique. This first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Hagiwara’s work showcases his enormous versatility. More than 30 prints span his early work of the 1950s to the Greek Mythology series in 1965, and from his celebrated series of novel views of Mount Fuji in the 1980s and 1990s to his enormously laborious prints of the Face, Memory, and Mandala series.
This exhibition will be presented in two rotations: Rotation 1: December 14, 2019 – June 21, 2020. Rotation 2: June 27, 2020 – December 6, 2020.”
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.
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.
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.”