September 2013 Events and Exhibitions
SPECIAL EVENTS
Highlights of the Collection Tour
6:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month and 1:30 p.m. on all Saturdays and Sundays|
FREE with general Museum admission
Experience the UMFA galleries through a thirty-minute tour with a docent. No pre-registration necessary.
Highlights of the Collection Tour
6:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month and 1:30 p.m. on all Saturdays and Sundays|
FREE with general Museum admission
Experience the UMFA galleries through a thirty-minute tour with a docent. No pre-registration necessary.
COMMUNITY OPENING CELEBRATION
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Saturday, September 7 | 6 pm | FREE
6 pm | Collector Jordan D. Schnitzer, in conversation with UMFA's curator of modern and contemporary art Whitney Tassie, will talk about his experiences as a collector and some of the works on display in Under Pressure, which are drawn from his highly respected and comprehensive collection of contemporary prints.
7 pm | Community Celebration
Saturday, September 7 | 6 pm | FREE
6 pm | Collector Jordan D. Schnitzer, in conversation with UMFA's curator of modern and contemporary art Whitney Tassie, will talk about his experiences as a collector and some of the works on display in Under Pressure, which are drawn from his highly respected and comprehensive collection of contemporary prints.
7 pm | Community Celebration
Guerrilla Girls
Thursday, September 12 | 5 pm | FREE*
In
1985, a group of female artists founded the Guerrilla Girls to shed
light on discrimination in the art world through provocative activism,
wearing gorilla masks to hide their true identities. Today, they
continue their legacy as important contributors to the causes of
feminism and social change. Their dynamic presentations are known to be
exciting, empowering events, extending their invitation to “Go ape with
us!”
Artist Talk and Panel Discussion with Martha Wilson
Wednesday, September 18 | 5 pm | FREE
The exhibition Martha Wilson: Staging the Self
presents the artist’s work dealing with issues of assumed and projected
identity, as well as examples of her curatorial practice, in which she
provides
a site for the exploration of avant-garde art. In this program, Wilson
will deliver a presentation about her work, which will be followed by a
lively panel discussion with the artist and regional scholars.
Third Saturday Art Activity for Families: Collage Portraits
Saturday, September 21 | 1–4 pm | FREE
Be your own cutting-edge contemporary artist. Get inspiration from the
Martha Wilson: Staging the Self exhibition on display and make a
statement with your art through contemporary collage portraits. Third
Saturday is funded in part by Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks
Program (ZAP).
Chamber Music Series
Wednesday, September 25 | 7 pm | FREE
Experience
the harmonious convergence of music and art at the UMFA as students
from the University of Utah School of Music String Quartet gather in the
galleries to perform musical masterpieces in the intimate
and beautiful surrounds of the Museum.
Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
OPENING September 5, 2013
This
exhibition presents selections from the largest collection of
contemporary prints in the United States. Spanning the past five
decades, it features works by thirty-nine artists
from Jasper Johns and Sol LeWitt to Damien Hirst, Kiki Smith, and Kara
Walker. Under Pressure charts an array of artistic and social
concerns, from minimalism to pop and conceptual art, and more recent
works addressing race, gender, and identity.
Exploring Sustainability
OPENING September 13, 2013
Exploring Sustainability
is an exhibition of new projects that explore how principles of
ecological sustainability and affiliated design strategies are applied
to creative
thinking and to the design process. During Sustainable Design Practice,
the University of Utah studio art course in which this work was
created, students gained an overview of the environmental impacts of
design and production practices as well as the processes
and methods associated with more sustainable approaches. The projects
created over the course of the spring 2013 semester are inspired
examples of how students integrated sustainable design into their own
creative process. The exhibition is intended to stimulate
further dialogue among the university and local communities about
issues related to sustainability.
Martha Wilson: Staging the Self
On view through November 10, 2013
Martha
Wilson's career, spanning forty years, encapsulates the contestations
inherent in feminist and socially engaged practices. In her work and
throughout her life, Wilson has explored
how identity and positioning are not just self-defined or projected,
but also negotiated. The complex nature of her work encompasses her
activities as an artist, creating conceptually-based performances,
videos, and photo-text compositions since the early
1970s; her position as the founder and director of the non-profit space
Franklin Furnace; and her collaboration with other women to form the
group, DISBAND among many other things. Wilson's attitude to
collaboration and openness to constantly redefining both
personal and collective identities make her a central figure with which
to collaborate on producing this exhibition that explores current
approaches toward feminism, activism, and collaborative practice.
Martha Wilson: Staging the Self
is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent
Curators International
(ICI), New York. Guest curator for the exhibition is Peter Dykhuis. The
exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible in part by the
National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The
Cowles Charitable Trust, the ICI Board of Trustees, and ICI Benefactors
Barbara and John Robinson.
salt 8: Shigeyuki Kihara
On view through January 5, 2014
salt 8
will feature the work of Shigeyuki Kihara, a prominent artist based in
New Zealand. Born in 1975 in Samoa
to a Buddhist Japanese father and a Christian Samoan mother, Kihara
investigates the complexities of cultural identity, colonialism,
representation, gender roles, and spirituality through performance,
photography, and video. In the UMFA's
salt gallery, Kihara will present large-scale looping projections of her 2012 videos
Galu Afi and
Siva in Motion.
Inspired by the traditional Samoan dance Taualuga, both videos are
lamentations for the loss caused by the 2009 tsunami as well as poetic
meditations on Samoa's colonial past
and future climate change. Adjacent to the salt gallery, Kihara will stage a photographic intervention with our Pacific Island collection.
Lawrence Weiner:
BENT TO A STRAIGHT AND NARROW AT A POINT OF PASSAGE
BENT TO A STRAIGHT AND NARROW AT A POINT OF PASSAGE
On view through mid-2014
A
fascinating work of language sculpture by groundbreaking contemporary
artist Lawrence Weiner is now on view in the UMFA G.W. Anderson Family
Great Hall. Purchased by the Museum
in 2011 with funds from the Phyllis Cannon Wattis Endowment for 20th
Century Art,
BENT TO A STRAIGHT AND NARROW AT A POINT OF PASSAGE
(1976) is an important addition to the UMFA's permanent collection of
contemporary art and represents a canonical moment in art history.
**Exhibition dates are subject to change.
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