July Issue 1999
St. John's Museum Of Art Tours Exhibition By Internationally Acclaimed Artist/Writer Barbara Chase-Riboud
An exhibition of drawings by writer and artist Barbara Chase-Riboud begins a tour of major museums and galleries in the United States when it visits The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from June 22 through Sept. 5. Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Monument Drawings is scheduled to be exhibited through Sept., 2000, at three venues, including the Met, The African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Diggs Gallery of Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.
The Monument Drawings, organized by St. John's Museum of Art, where it was first exhibited in Spring, 1997, consists of a series of 23 works that represent the first major body of Chase-Riboud's visual work to be shown in the United States in more than two decades. The exhibition was curated by Dr. Anthony F. Janson, a faculty member of the art and theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, who also served as essayist for the accompanying exhibition catalogue.
The drawings are engravings on Arches paper which have been re-worked with charcoal, charcoal pencil, and pen and ink. Each in the series is a rendering by Chase-Riboud of a hypothetical large-scale public monument intended to pay architectural homage to various political, cultural and artistic forces from the contemporary back to antiquity. The exhibition includes such titles as Emil Zola's Monument, Paris, 1997; Queen of Sheba Monument, Jerusalem, 1997; and Marquis de Sade Monument, Paris, 1997.
Barbara Chase-Riboud's distinguished career consistently has been based in several disciplines simultaneously. As a painter and sculptor she has exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards including being named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 1996 (she has lived in Paris since 1961). She is the author of four novels, including Sally Hemings, a best-selling historical treatment about Thomas Jefferson and his slave/mistress.
In 1995, Chase-Riboud was one of three artists commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration to create monuments for the interior of the recently completed Jacob R. Javitz federal office building in lower Manhattan. She was commissioned to produce the large-scale sculpture Africa Rising after it was discovered that the building stood over an 18th Century African-American slave burial ground.
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