February 2014

Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC, Offers ExhibitionFocused on Space and Place

The Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC, is presenting the evocative exhibition Social Geographies: Interpreting Space and Place, on view through May 18, 2014. The Museum is also presenting several engaging and informative events in the coming weeks in conjunction with the show.

Social Geographies is an exhibition that asks viewers to experience artwork regarded as different, differently. Whether deemed “outsider” (Henry Darger, Martín Ramírez, George Widener) or “self-taught” (Thornton Dial, Sr., Minnie Evans, Lonnie Holley), the artists featured in this exhibition are classified in terms that organize their art but do not adequately speak of their arts’ unique qualities and circumstances.

Rather than presenting artists and their work through notions of marginality, Social Geographies generates discussions of subjective and shared experiences told through concepts of space and place. To this end, the exhibition engages viewers on multiple levels. Featuring 40 mostly large-scale works by American artists that represent space and place, the exhibition investigates visual ways of mapping such experiences through layered material objects, panoramic formats, cartographic views, chronographic vistas and depictions of visionary and vast worlds.

Scheduled events include:

On Mar. 20, at 6pm - Lecture - “Troublesome Things in the Borderlands of Contemporary Art” lecture by Dr. Bernard Herman, Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. Free and open to the public.

On Mar. 21, at noon - Gallery Talk - Dr. Bernard Herman, Lunchtime Art Break gallery talk. Free with Membership or Museum admission. UNC Asheville students are admitted for free with student I.D.

On Apr. 16, at 7pm - Lecture - “Look Homeward Angel: Memory, Imagination, and the Worlds We Share” lecture by Dr. Charles Russell. Free with Membership or Museum admission. UNC Asheville students are admitted for free with student I.D.

On May 8, at 6pm - Lecture - “Henry Darger: Panoramas and Hyperbole” lecture by Dr. Leisa Rundquist. Free with Membership or Museum admission. UNC Asheville students are admitted for free with student I.D.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call 828/253-3227 or visit (www.ashevilleart.org).

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