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June Issue 2004
Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Offers Several Exhibitions for the Summer
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, NC, is presenting
several exhibits during the summer season including: Cool and
Collected '04, on view through July 11, 2004; Warren Brandt:
Paintings from the Permanent Collection, on view from June
6 through Aug. 8, 2004; Videodrome II, on view from June 20 through
Sept. 12, 2004; and James Hyde: Falk Visiting Artist, on
view from June 27 through Sept. 26, 2004.
The third exhibition in the Cool & Collected series
presents recent gifts and purchases to the Weatherspoon's permanent
collection during the last several years. The exhibition features
more than fifty paintings, works on paper, sculptures, photographs,
and videos that are grouped to establish relationships among various
individual pieces. The Cool & Collected exhibitions
not only provide regular opportunities to showcase new additions,
but also demonstrate some of the forethought of collection planning.
The work of widely-acclaimed artist and Greensboro
native, Warrent Brandt, will be presented in an exhibition of
paintings drawing from the Weatherspoon's collection. Included
in the exhibition are two recent gifts that have not been shown
locally. The last exhibition of Brandt's work at the Weatherspoon
was the 1992 retrospective that subsequently traveled to Florida
and New York. Brandt earned his MFA degree from UNCG in 1953.
He also studied in St. Louis with Philip Guston and Max Beckmann
and in New York City with Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
In New York, Brandt established close ties with the leading Abstract
Expressionist painters. His work from the late 1950's through
the 1960's reflects the influence of artists such as Willem de
Kooning, who explored the emotional and psychological power of
brilliant, freely-applied color. Warren Brandt: Paintings from
the Permanent Collection is part of a series focusing on individual
artists that the Museum has collected in depth; a group that includes
John Graham, Eva Hesse, and Sol LeWitt. Brandt's career, so distinguished,
urbane, and productive, is a source of continued pride for the
UNCG and Greensboro arts communities.
This summer, the Weatherspoon also presents a traveling video exhibition from the New Museum of Contemporary Art. In the spirit of David Cronenberg's 1983 cult classic film of the same name, Videodrome II acknowledges video's role as a primary medium within the production of contemporary art. The twenty-seven titles selected incorporate new works by emerging artists, artists not known for their work in video, and artists working outside the United States. Although their approaches vary widely, together the artists contributed to an overall investigation of techniques addressed in video today, with particular attention paid to how technological capabilities within the medium are used to underscore conceptual ideas.
Videodrome II was organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and is made possibe by the generous support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Jerome Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Weatherspoon Art Museum will also present the
exhibition, James Hyde: Falk Visiting Artist, on view from
June 27 through Sept. 26, 2004.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Museum at 336/334-5770 or on the web at (www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu).
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