Date/Time
Date - September 10, 2016
6:30 pm until 8:00 pm
Location
Neuberger Museum of Art
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY, 10577
Cultural Pursuit Members are invited to join me at the Neuberger Members’ Opening Reception of Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, and Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter.
From the website: neuberger.org
Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source
September 11, 2016 – December 23, 2016
Julien nouveau vide grenier – Avenue de la Marne, Biarritz, 7 mai 1998, 1998
Decollage on canvas
63 x 63 inches
Courtesy Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
Urban walls hold the history of a place. In our daily lives, we often pass them by unnoticed. For the artists in Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, however, the beauty of decaying walls serves as an inspiration that informs their work. This multi-media group exhibition features seven international artists who explore a contemporary archaeological aesthetic, making art on urban walls in which the wall itself becomes an integral part of the work. They often search for a particular surface, location, or history that directly speaks to them, places where the interaction between individuals and materials accumulate to create new meaning.
Ray Spillenger: Rediscovery of a Black Mountain Painter
September 11, 2016 – December 23, 2016
Ray Spillenger, Composition: Grays, Whites,1949-52, Mixed media on board, 11”x 15”
Estate of Raymond Spillenger, WBU-01
During the summer of 1948 Ray Spillenger studied with Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. This exhibition, including over forty paintings and drawings dating from the artist’s Black Mountain College days to the late 1960s, reveals Spillenger’s deep commitment to abstraction and his passionate love of color.
Also on view:
Destination: Latin America
July 24, 2016 – January 22, 2017
Betsabeé Romero, Ceci n’est pas une voiture I (This is not a Car), from installation Auto-construido, 2000, color photograph, 10 ½ x 17 3/8 inches, 1/5. Collection Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Gift of the artist. ©Betsabeé Romero
Destination: Latin America offers a multifaceted, didactic journey through twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American art. Drawn from the collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, the exhibition is organized in five sections. The first includes work by artists affiliated with the artistic revolution that emerged after the Mexican Revolution; section two features sculpture and painting by key South American artists exploring color, form, space, and motion; section three features work by Caribbean and South American artists inspired by African art, Surrealism, and Magical Realism; section four addresses the challenges faced by artists living under the dictatorships of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, when most of South America was under military control; and section five concentrates on contemporary artists looking at themes of history, globalization, violence, and social criticism.
Cultural Pursuit members can RSVP to Laura by 3pm Wednesday, 8/31/16.
To learn more about these and other exhibitions, please visit the museum’s website at neuberger.org.
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York
After the opening, members are invited to join me for dinner at 8pm at Tredici Restaurant, located at 578 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York.
Tredici North, 578 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York