January Issue 2002
Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, Offers Contemporary Works-On-Paper
The Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC,
is offering the exhibition, Recent Acquisitions: Prints from
the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, featuring
17 examples of graphic art by some of the best-known names in
contemporary art. The exhibition runs through March 24, 2002.
The gift of these works has substantially enhanced the museum's
growing collection of the art of our time. Three of the museum's
Focus Galleries - smaller, more intimate gallery spaces - will
display the works by artists Donald Baechler, Jennifer Bartlett,
Joseph Cornell, Mark di Suvero, Grace Hartigan, David Hockney,
Jasper Johns, Julian Lethbridge, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman,
John Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, George Segal,
Richard Serra, William Wegman and Trevor Winkfield.
The Foundation for Contemporary Performance
Arts was established in 1963 through the efforts of Jasper Johns
and John Cage in the belief that painters and sculptors were sufficiently
concerned about the state of the performance arts to donate their
work in support of performing artists. Since that time, more than
450 visual artists have donated their work to benefit exhibitions.
Funds realized through this effort are used to encourage, sponsor,
and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented
by individuals, groups, and organizations.
The Columbia Museum of Art is offering several related programs
in conjunction with this exhibition.
Film Series Art: 21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century, featuring twenty-one artists who are defining the visual arts for a new millennium discuss their life, their work, and their vision in this four-part film series starting on Jan. 12 at 2pm. The series, comprised of four themes, Place, Spirituality, Identity, and Consumption, gives viewers a rare opportunity to get to know these artists as individuals, as people with families and friends, dreams and fears. Listening to their words and watching them at work, we get a unique insight into where they are coming from, what art means to them and why they do what they do. Five of the twenty-one artists profiled in this series are represented in the Museum's collection: Richard Serra, Sally Mann, William Wegman, Bruce Nauman and Louise Bourgeois.
Jan. 12 at 2pm - Place - Introduction and video art by Laurie Anderson. Program one considers the influence of place - physical, conceptual or psychological, regional, national or transnational - on such artists as Richard Serra and Sally Mann.
Jan. 19 at 2pm - Spirituality - Introduction by S. Epatha Merkerson in a video created by Beryl Korot. References to spirituality abound in today's art, and this program addresses the continuing examination of the spiritual in art and life through the work of such artists as James Turrell and Ann Hamilton.
Feb. 9 at 2pm - Identity - Introduction created by William Wegman and Steve Martin. Through the work of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Maya Lin and Kerry James Marshall, this program examines how artists confront the questions "Who am I?" and "Who are we?" in today's pluralistic, multicultural world.
Feb. 16 at 2pm - Consumption - Introduction by John McEnroe in a video created by Barbara Kruger. The final program turns its eye on the mutual influences a consumerist society and pop culture exhibit on contemporary art and vice-versa through the works of such artists as Michael Ray Charles and Matthew Barney.
The film series is free with membership or museum admission.
Art History Seminar - Defining Post-Modernism
Presented by Dr. Brad Collins, Associate Professor of Art History
at USC. A four-part series offered on consecutive Tuesdays, Mar.
5, 12, 19 & 26, from 2-4pm. Spaces are limited, so register
early. To register or for more information, call 803-343-2198.
The fee for the seminar series is $45 museum members and $75 for
nonmembers.
For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call
the Museum at 803/799-2810 or at (http://www.columbiamuseum.org).
For further info about Art:21, check out (http://www.pbs.org/art21/).
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