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SUMMARY:Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick\, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
DESCRIPTION:A leading artist of her generation\, Kara Walker (b. 1969) works in a range of mediums\, including prints\, drawings\, paintings\, sculpture\, film\, and the large-scale silhouette cutouts for which she is perhaps most recognized. In Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick\, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation\, her powerful and provocative images employ contradictions to critique the painful legacies of slavery\, sexism\, violence\, imperialism\, and other power structures\, including those in the history and hierarchies of art and contemporary culture. \nThis exhibition offers a broad overview of her career through more than 80 works from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation\, premier collectors of works on paper in the United States. Some highlights of the exhibition are the complete Emancipation Approximation series and images from the Porgy & Bess series. Walker’s process involves extensive research in history\, literature\, art history\, and popular culture. Intentionally unsentimental and ambiguous\, the works can be disturbing yet also humorous\, always exploring the irreconcilable inconsistencies that mirror the human condition. This is Walker’s first solo exhibition at the Frist Art Museum; her work Camptown Ladies appeared in our presentation of 30 Americans in 2013–14. \n\n\nCo-curated by Frist Art Museum executive director and CEO Dr. Susan H. Edwards and Nashville poet Ciona Rouse.
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LOCATION:University of Southern California\, USC Fisher Museum of Art\, 823 Exposition Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90089\, United States
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SUMMARY:Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem
DESCRIPTION:Although best known for her profound sculptures of monumental spiders\, evocative human figures\, and fleshly anthropomorphic forms\, Louise Bourgeois maintained a prolific drawing and writing practice and an ongoing interest in illustrated books and printmaking throughout the course of her long career. Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem presents 119 works with a focus on prints\, textiles\, and a series of eight holograms\, ranging in date from the 1940s to the early 2000s. These works build on the raw emotional terrain of Bourgeois’ practice\, and explore feelings of isolation\, anger\, and fear through the recurring depiction of the body\, childhood\, family\, architecture\, and the passage of time. \nBourgeois described her relationship to making art as one of survival and dependence; she experienced a lifelong struggle with trauma and anxiety which was appeased only by the outward expression of her own artistic and written production. She openly acknowledged her vulnerability because it gave her purpose\, and the work born from that purpose gave form to her particular kind of suffering. In relation to this condition of living and working Bourgeois aptly coined the now famous phrase: “Art is a guarantee of sanity.” \n\n\nBourgeois was keenly sensitive to the power of language when combined with image. She had a prolific writing practice her entire life\, with her most active periods occurring in the 1950s and 1960s while she underwent psychoanalysis. Her writing is honest\, poetic\, and often autobiographical. Read alongside the entirety of her work\, these words depict an individual in crisis\, a running narrative of a woman struggling with the pressures and expectations of being a daughter\, a wife\, a mother\, and an artist. \n“What is the shape of this problem?” is a question presented on the opening page of a series of nine letterpress diptychs of image and text produced by Bourgeois in 1999 and in many ways it is a poignant frame for this exhibition. This question\, like much of the text used in her prints\, positions these works within Bourgeois’ multi-layered practice of identifying and bravely exploring her personal history\, her creative process\, and her mental health. These words boldly place suffering and making parallel to each other\, suggesting that abstract emotions can\, and should\, be given form. It is this acknowledgment that provides the balance of her creative practice and life\, an entwined dependence that makes the work of Louise Bourgeois artistically and emotionally intelligent. \nThis exhibition is organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation and the Esker Foundation. It is curated by Naomi Potter\, Director/Chief Curator\, Esker Foundation\, Calgary\, Canada. \n\nImage courtesy of USC Fisher Museum of Art\, Photo: Peter Perigo
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LOCATION:University of Southern California\, USC Fisher Museum of Art\, 823 Exposition Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90089\, United States
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