Picks from the Blanton Museum
Check out The Blanton Museum of Art’s two exciting exhibitions featuring works by Art21 artists Richard Tuttle (Season 3), Michael Ray Charles (Season 1) and Hubbard + Birchler (Season 3).
Richard Tuttle’s Light Pink Octagon from 1967 is displayed in America/Americas, an ongoing exhibition with rotating works from both the American and Latin American collections at the Blanton. The exhibition shows works from North, Central and South America in a refreshingly new and unprecedented way. Works range from 1909 through 1985, exploring the differences and similarities in creative production throughout the continent and the continuous flow of ideas between borders. Tuttle’s Light Pink Octagon, from his Octagon series, has also served as an inspiration piece for Texan poets participating in the Blanton’s Poetry Project. Tuttle’s own interest in space and objects that cross the boundaries between painting, sculpture or drawing, has turned into poetic visions of shape and color that shed light on our own interpretations of this particular piece.
Michael Ray Charles and the artist team of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler make an appearance in Atelier 2008: Selections from the Department of Art & Art History Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, just about to open in three days and on view through June 8, 2008. Atelier 2008 is the first faculty exhibition being organized by a guest curator (this year, James Elaine, from the Hammer Museum of Art in LA), and it opens a new format of triennial exhibitions that will display faculty work at the Blanton from now on. For more information on Michael Ray Charles’s painting (Forever Free) Jersey #9 (Cultural Value/Black Hand), 2003, and Teresa Hubbard+Alexander Birchler’s video Single Wide, 2002, visit the Blanton Museum’s website.
Caption: Richard Tuttle, Light Pink Octagon, 1967
MASK: Barney, Tuttle, and Hancock at James Cohan Gallery
On Wednesday, three artists previously featured in Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century take part in a group exhibition at James Cohan Gallery in New York. Entitled MASK, the exhibition explores the forms and uses of masks throughout history and further examines how contemporary artists are influenced by them.
MASK is comprised of a collection of over 40 masks, dating from 700 BC through the 20th century and representative of all continents and many cultural traditions. These masks will be shown alongside works by 30 contemporary artists, including Art21 featured artists Richard Tuttle, Matthew Barney and Trenton Doyle Hancock.
MASK will be on view from December 13 through January 26, 2008.
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
View more images from the exhibition here.
