April 2011

Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, NC, Features Exhibit of Recent Acquisitions

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC, is presenting the exhibit, Building The Contemporary Collection: Five Years Of Acquisitions, on view through Aug. 14, 2011.

In its first five years the Nasher Museum of Art has focused on modern and contemporary art with particular emphasis on global, emerging artists of color.

Building the Contemporary Collection, in celebration of the museum’s fifth anniversary, presents the most important contemporary works acquired since its founding in 2005. The exhibition features work by 42 artists, including Christian Boltanski, William Cordova, Noah Davis, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Odili Donald Odita, Dan Perjovschi, Dario Robleto, David Salle, Carolee Schneemann, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Jeff Sonhouse, Eve Sussman, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Bob Thompson, Kara Walker, Jeff Whetstone, Kehinde Wiley, Fred Wilson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others.

The exhibition reflects the museum’s interest in the art and culture of the African diaspora, and includes works in a variety of media - painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video and installation. It is curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art.

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Mary D.B.T. Semans and the late James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Neely Family Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University, and the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 919/684-5135 or visit (www.nasher.duke.edu).

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