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2012 - 2013 Exhibition Season
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MUSEUM HOURS
Monday - Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday from 12p.m. to 4 p.m.
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This exhibition presented the work of Emmy award winning set designer Ray Klausen. Klausen holds a long resume of theatre and television credits, including Broadway, off-Broadway, and international productions. His work in television has garnered him twelve Emmy nominations and three Emmy awards for his set designs (two for The Academy Awards and one for the Cher television series). On display were various set designs constructed during Klausen’s prolific career including miniature sets of On Golden Pond, Bea Arthur - On Broadway Just Between Friends, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Brooklyn, Big River and Waiting in the Wings. The exhibition also featured images of Klausen’s television sets including his various Cher, Academy Awards and American Music Award sets as well as play bills and lobby cards from shows like Liza at the Palace and Burn the Floor for which Klausen designed sets.
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Christina Wang (American, b.1987)
ready to wrap, 2011
Oil on panel
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Featured in the interior of our 20th century art installation, Works by christina wang showcased the first solo exhibition of recent MFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts (New York City), Christina Wang.
A lover of feminine imagery and lower case letters, Wang’s abstracted paintings evoke a sense of familiarity and yet, at the same time, force viewers to take an extended look at something that may have otherwise become visual filler in their everyday life. Her work ultimately leads one to a re-appreciation of the common object’s beauty and value.
In discussing her work Christina states,
"i make happy paintings. my inspiration comes from my surroundings and daily life, usually in the form of objects. cakes, furs, flowers, meat, sweater stacks are my art muses. these objects all share alluring elements of color, texture, smell, taste and an overall sense of decadence. they are the things that elicit a primal feeling of desire and excitement."
To view more examples of Christina Wang's work please visit her website - http://christinajwang.com/
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Pictures of Burma |
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This exhibition featured photographs taken by Law Eh Soe, a Burmese photojournalist and political refugee currently residing in Buffalo, NY. Law Eh Soe began documenting the lives of everyday people in Burma after shooting his first roll of film during the 1988 Burma uprising also known as the “8888 Uprising,” a series of marches, demonstrations, protests and riots that occurred on August 8, 1988 in response to growing resentment towards military rule, police brutality, economic mismanagement and governmental corruption in Burma. During the 2007 Saffron Revolution, Law Eh Soe took photos of the State Police and Development Council’s (the official military regime of Burma from 1988-2011) brutal crackdown on protesters.
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 Asher Brown Durand
Portrait of Thomas Cole, 1838
Oil on canvas
Collection: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA.
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Wild Land: Thomas Cole and
the Birth of American
Landscape Painting
This exhibition offered an immersive look into the life and work of American artist and Hudson River School founder, Thomas Cole. Through a combination of large-scale banner graphics, three-dimensional environments, and multi-media features the exhibition takes visitors through the woods and into the studio, displaying how Cole and other artists of his time pioneered cultural conversations that shaped our national landscape.
This exhibition was organized by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and is toured by NEH on the Road.
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The University Art Collection:
Up Close and Personal with Savonarola Preaching Against Luxury
This exhibition featured an up close, eye-level look at Ludwig von Langenmantel’s 1879 masterpiece, Savonarola Preaching Against Prodigality.
Acquired by the University in 1932, this large painting was formerly installed over the fireplace in the Reference Hall of the Friedsam Memorial Library and was the focus around which the architect planned the room. Recently, it was on display in the exhibition Money & Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli, and the Bonfire of the Vanities at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy where it was seen by approximately 85,000 visitors. It is currently one of the only Langenmantel works still available for public view in the world.
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Surrealist Views:
The Work of Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst
This exhibition examined the work of surrealist artists Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst. Married for over thirty years each artist achieved success in their own right, crafting equally outstanding yet radically different works of surreal and oftentimes unsettling imagery.
Presented in the gallery were works from the F. Donald Kenney Collection including Tanning’s Les Septs Périls Spectraux (The Seven Spectral Perils) series and Ernst’s Hibou (Owl) as well as information and phographs detailing the artists' lives together.
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Claire Wagner Kosterlitz:
A Bauhaus Artist in America
Featured within the ongoing 20th century art exhibition located in Paul W. Beltz gallery of the museum this exhibition displayed the work of Claire Wagner Kosterlitz.
Born Edeltraut Clara Wagner, Kosterliz was educated in the arts throughout her life in both Germany and the United States including seven years of private art lessons and time spent at the Bauhaus Dessau and Art Students League in New York City. Her work has been shown in numerous libraries, Universities, and museums including the Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Modern Art, Rutgers University, and the Jewish Museum of New Jersey.
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