December Issue 1999
Work By Sculptor John Monti At Weatherspoon Art Gallery
An exhibition by sculptor John Monti will open on Dec. 5, and run through Feb. 6, 2000, at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery as part of the Falk Visiting Artists Program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
Monti employs industrial materials such as colorized rubber and urethane plastic which give his work a sensual and fluid look. He has had solo exhibitions regularly in New York City since 1985, with others in Honolulu, Seattle, Santa Monica and Kanazawa, Japan. His work has been selected for more than 30 group exhibitions in the 1990s. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
His works are included in the collections of American Telephone and Telegraph, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Taco Bell Corp., Chase Manhattan Bank, Exxon Corp., Israel Museum and the Portland (Ore.) Museum of Art.
Reviewing a recent exhibition for The New York Times, critic Grace Glueck wrote: "In a shift from the intricate wooden constructions he did in the 1980s, Mr. Monti has come up with a group of spare and simple but well-rounded forms: wall blips, bulges, protrusions and things that hug the ground."
The Falk Visiting Artist program brings three nationally recognized artists to the UNCG Department of Art each year for several days of activities. Their campus visits include interaction with students, in addition to a walk-through of their exhibition and a slide lecture on their work. The program offers an opportunity for students, faculty and the public to have contact with the artists. It also provides a focus for discussion of ideas, trends and standards of artistic production at the national level. The exhibitions, lectures and walk-throughs are free and open to the public.
The Herbert and Louise Falk Visiting Artists Endowment was established in 1982 to fund the program. Artists are selected by a committee of art department faculty and students and a Weatherspoon Art Gallery curator. Over 50 painters, performance artists, sculptors, ceramicists, printmakers, photographers, video and intermedia artists have been Falk Visiting Artists. Participating artists have included Robert Longo, Laurie Simmons, Peter Agostini, Rackstraw Downes, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan and Mel Chin.
The exhibition will be in the Falk Gallery and will include 11 of Monti's works. The artist will be in residence Jan. 18-20, 2000. He will lead a gallery walk-through at 4pm on Jan. 18 and will present a slide lecture on his work at 5:30pm on Jan. 19. Both are free and open to the public.
Continuing at the Weatherspoon is the exhibition Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, through Jan. 23, 2000, in Gallery 7; and the UNCG Faculty Biennial, through Dec. 19 in the Tannenbaum Gallery and in Gallery 6. Other exhibitions include Collection Highlights and Henri Matisse: Prints and Bronzes from the Cone Collection.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the gallery at 336/334-5770.
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