Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak in His Own Words & Pictures
February 5-May 23, 2010
February 5-May 23, 2010
February 5-March 28, 2010
September 24, 2009-January 3, 2010
September 24, 2009-January 3, 2010
Sandra Luckett: A Fluid Wilderness
September 24, 2009-January 3, 2010
April 24-August 23, 2009
Featuring:
Dante Marioni: Form | Color | Pattern
Ashes to Ashes: Life and Death in Contemporary Glass
January 23-March 15, 2009
January 23-March 15, 2009
Michael Scoggins: Sic Semper Tyrannis
October 16-December 30, 2008
Johnston Foster: Altered Beast
October 16-December 30, 2008
October 16-December 30, 2008
July 11-September 28, 2008
LIZ MILLER: SELF-SUSTAINING DEBACLE
June 26-September 28, 2008
April 3-June 15, 2008
Nathan Vincent: Knot Unraveled
April 3-June 15, 2008
April 11-June 15, 2008
Edgar Arceneaux: The Agitation of Expansion
January 17-March 23
Adia Millett: Proofs and Illusions
January 10-March 23, 2008
Mikhail Magaril: Russian Roulette
January 10-March 23, 2008
Stephen Vitiello: Slow Planes, Fast Trees (sound works and documets)
October 26-December 30, 2007
Peter Eudenbach: Pneumatic Lens
October 4-December 30, 2007
Aimee Helen Koch: Grave Gardens
October 4-December 30, 2007
Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences
June 29-September 23, 2007
35 Years and Counting: Portraits from the Kathie Moore Collection
June 29-September 23, 2007
March 30-June 18, 2007
By Our Heirs Forever: New Waves 2007
March 30-June 18, 2007
March 30-June 18, 2007
Dennis Winston:
No Victory Without Labor
>January 15–March 11, 2007
Special opening reception on January 15, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 3-6pm.
Free and open to the public.
Driven by needs both social and aesthetic, Winston’s work reflects urban and rural experiences. The themes are universal and are concerned with the everyday reality of all human existence. Using woodcuts, the bold, direct, black and white renderings depict the lives of his subjects. His images capture the moments in the lives of ordinary people and reveal something of their character, the history that shaped them, and the spirit that sustains them. His images focus on the human condition and life experiences through figurative and genre representations that are universal to all people and reflect the opportunity to give existence and personal meaning to what might otherwise go unrecorded.
image: Dennis Winston, No Victory Without Labor, 1997
Pulitzer Prize Photojournalist
>January 15-March 11, 2007
This retrospective collection of 125 photographs, drawn largely from images Sleet shot for Johnson Publishing, divides his work into six sections: the era of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Civil Rights Movement; Africa; Photo Essays; Portraits; and Children. It was Sleet's gripping picture of Coretta Scott King and her youngest daughter, Bernice, at Dr. King's funeral that in 1969 earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography; hew was the first African-American to receive the honor.
image: Moneta Sleet, Jr., Dr. King at home with his wife, daughter Yolanda, and his son Martin Luther King III, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956
>October 8, 2006-January 7, 2007
Calvin's images are constructed by montaging multiple slide projections and found objects into room-size assemblages in her studio, which she then photographs. These tableaus have layers of meaning woven throughout. The images serve as a commentary on the political and social roles projected onto a society whose desires, manipulated by language and image, conflict with concerns of gender, sexuality, race and female identity.
image: Jane Calvin, Correlations
Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand: Exhale
>October 19, 2006-January 7, 2007
Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand utilize performance and self-portraiture to explore concepts about everyday occurrences and interactions. As a collaborative team, they work with video, video installation and digital photography. Daily interactions with each other and their daughter influence their work the most, giving it an autobiographical suggestion. Mary and Stephan’s work presents an ironic and unexpected look at preconceived notions about traditional activities and ideas such as the fun of blowing a bubble with bubble gum, a romantic kiss on the hand or sharing a cup of coffee in the morning.
Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, air-hunger, 2003, video still
The Face of Contemporary Art in China
>October 28-December 31, 2006
Featuring more than 40 works in various media by Chinese artists, The Face of Contemporary Art in China illuminates an exciting period in Chinese culture. Comprised of works from two private American collections, this exhibition demonstrates a departure from nationalistic art, or Socialist Realism, in the post-Mao era.
Stories abound in the media about the vibrant economy in China, a country with a potential consumer base of over 1.3 billion people. The globalization of this new market is attributed to the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. In a 1991 speech, Deng Xiaoping advanced the country’s almost overnight transition to a market economy. The transition was expedited by access to information through electronic devices and Internet search engines. The resulting freedom changed the face of contemporary art in China. In recognition of these societal and cultural phenomena, the Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board organized an exhibition that explores this new frontier in the visual arts.
Sponsored by: 
image: Liu Rentao, Dreamy Music from Heaven, 1995
Water, Water Everywhere
>July 27-October 8
The meaning, metaphor and symbolism of water is explored in various media by 12 international artists. Organized by Marilu Knode, senior curator at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona, the exhibition encourages audiences to think about the value of this essential natural resource.
Featured artists:
dorothy cross, tony feher, laura horelli, ange leccia, spbrina mezzaqui, rivane neuenschwander, carrie yamaoka, jun nguyen-hatsushiba, song dong, janiana tschÄpe
image: Rivane Neuenscwander, Love Lettering
Watering by Elijah Gowin
>July 16-October 1
Watering by Elijah Gowin, a photography exhibition of 24 works. Gowin is captivated by the psychological need for humans to retreat into nature for religious rituals and has chosen the backdrop of contemporary Christian baptism to reflect upon the broader human condition at the turn of the 21st century.
Gowin begins his process by collecting amateur, low-resolution digital images of baptisms on the Internet. After gaining permission to use them in his work, he alters the original photo and montages multiple images and backgrounds. A negative is then printed on inkjet paper and scanned, so the paper fiber becomes part of the image. Even though his process takes advantage of up-to-date digital tools such as scanners and Internet search engines, he balances this with elements of craft such as hand-cutting the images making each photograph distinctly imperfect and unique.
Inspired by disparate sources such as Renaissance and Baroque history painting, news media, web blogs and anonymous snapshot photography, Gowin draws upon classic illustrations of human emotions such as despair, joy and fear, to address contemporary narratives and modes of communication. “Although my artwork begins as a gesture to build meaning and clarity in my own life,” he states, “it reaches its breadth when it does the same for others.”
image: Elijah Gowin, Waiting 2
NEW WAVES 2006
>May 25-July 16, 2006
CAC's annual, juried exhibition features works in various media by local artists. New Waves showcases the talent of Hampton Roads and Richmond and is a terrific opportunity to purchase art from local favorites and support the region's visual artists.
This year's exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs and collages by 30 regional, contemporary artists. Many works are available for purchase through CAC. Become a First Waves Collector and get an exclusive opportunity to purchase works before the exhibition opens! Call 425.0000 x.27 for more information.
Congratulations to the following winners (click to view images):
Best in Show ($2,250): Kirsten Kindler and Sandra Luckett, Simulated Splendor
Second Place ($1,750): Todd S. Hale, The Mysterious Approach of the Surface
Third Place ($1,250): Stephanie Frantz, Squash
Honorable Mention ($250 each):
Jason Hanasik, Preston and Erin
Travis Fullerton, Isle of Palms, South Carolina
Kirsten Kindler, Mahogany System
Amber Brown, Genesis of the Construct
>click here to learn more about New Waves
Jurors: Andrea Pollan and Stephen Bennett Phillips
>May 7-July 9, 2006
In a time when America is questioning the very state of its security and privacy, No One Knows looks at the visual manifestations being produced by local and national emerging artists who are reflecting on this subject. As people are inundated by the media's depiction of world events, their fears take on many forms--paranoia, the idea of "big brother," or hatred for minority groups. The works in the exhibition analyze how people are coping with personal and community uncertainties. Some artists are constructing realities to cope with or to conceal their fears while others have decided to confront and challenge them. The exhibition has a range of media including photography, sculpture, printmaking, video and painting. Displayed as a large, site-specific installation, this group exhibition leaves viewers questioning how much fear infiltrates our everyday thought processes, actions and how it has changed our lives.
featured artists
Matthew Albanese
Erin Balch
Heather Bryant
Samantha Forbes
Stephanie Frantz
Ed Gibbs
Terry Girard
Kristopher Graves
Monée Greenwood
Jason Hanasik
Stephanie Hanes
Kay Hofler
Brenda LaBier
Tom Siegmund
Jessica VanDaam
Nathan Vincent
Carrie Mae Weems: To Be Continued
>May 18-July 9, 2006
Weems creates work that examines, among other subjects, issues of racism, classism and sexism. Although primarily known as a photographer, Weems also employs written text, banners, sound and sculpture in her work to create a rich array of artwork including photograhpic documentaries, still lifes, tableaux and installation pieces. Throughout her work, Weems' goal has been to "describe simply and directly those aspects of American culture in need of deeper illumination."
Organized by the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.
image: May Flowers, from May Days Long Forgotten
Portraits of Artists by Other Artists
>March 23-May 14, 2006
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists re-examines the idea of portraiture and explores a variety of approaches to the genre. When artists create representations of other artists, the resulting work can take on a collaborative aspect. Presenting more than 50 visually striking and conceptually diverse works from the past three decades, “Likeness” investigates the private interactions and social dramas of a loose network of artists active in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Berlin, including Chuck Close, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elizabeth Peyton and Sigmar Polke. Many of the images evoke the heightened intimacy that is palpable between artists who are close friends, while others pay homage to muses and mentors, or treat the portrait as a memento mori.
The exhibition Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists is co-organized by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and Independent Curators International (iCI), New York, and circulated by iCI. The guest curator is Matthew Higgs. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, by an in-kind donation from Philips Electronics North America.
image: Deborah Kass, Cindy Sherman
>March 12-April 30, 2006
Leigh Ann Chambers' striking self-portraits explore the idea of identity and perspective. By only depicting glimpses and hints of her visage in large-scale paintings, viewers are engaged in an intimate discourse in which Chambers reveals herself, figuratively and
literally.
Chambers received her Arts Administration Certificate from New York University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Chambers is currently the executive director of the Rawls Museum Arts in Courtland, Virginia.
image: Leigh Anne Chambers, Sea World
Artist Self-Portraits from the Heather & Tony Podesta Collection
>March 16 – May 7, 2006
The art collection of Heather and Tony Podesta is internationally regarded for its ambitious scope. Called "power collectors" by The Washington Post, their zeal for collecting contemporary photography and video is unrivaled in the American mid-Atlantic area. This photography/video exhibition concentrates on a particular focus within the Podesta collection: the artist's self-portrait. Frequently referred to as photo-based or lens-based work, this area of contemporary practice has been investigated by a growing number of artists including a new generation that emerged in the nineties. Artists such as Marina Abramovic, Ann Hamilton, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gillian Wearing deploy a variety of theatrical strategies, many of which are influenced by post-structuralist issues of identity, social roles and metaphoric transformation. Whether video stills, documentation of performances, digitized alternate realities or meticulously staged tableaux indebted to painting, each artist in Me, Myself and I expands upon the traditional concept of "self portrait" and the possibilities for photography's content and formal treatment.
Curated by Heather and Tony Podesta with assistance from Curator's Office director, Andrea Pollan, and Podesta collections manager, Gabriela Mizes.
image: Marzia Migliora, Ortiche (Nettles)
GENERATIONS:
African-American Art in the VMFA Collection 
and
SUCCESSIONS:
African-American Art by Contemporary Artists
>January 19-March 12, 2006
"Generations" is a collection of African-American art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Featuring works by celebrated African-American artists including Romare Bearden, Alison Saar, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold, this exhibition includes painting, drawing, prints, sculpture and photography.
During the 1950s, when Virginia was still one of sixteen racially segregated states, select few African-American artists were included in the VMFA fellowship program and Virginia Artist biennial exhibitions. The majority of the VMFA’s collection of works by African-Americans were acquired before the 1980s and entered the collection through these programs.
"Successions," curated by CAC, features contemporary works by African-American artists loaned from private collections and galleries in Virginia, Washington, D.C. and New York.
>visit the VMFA web site
image: Alison Saar, Snake Man
Urban Epistles:
An Open Letter to America
Steve Prince’s drawings won Best in Show at CAC’s New Waves 2004 exhibition and he has returned to exhibit new works in the Butler Gallery. Urban Epistles is a series of large scaled linoleum cuts and drawings that addresses various social, ethnic, racial, and modern moral dilemmas in our society and the world abroad. The work is timely, dealing with several recent and past historical events. Prince has utilized a method of visual communication similar to the old cathedral stained glass windows that carried the biblical stories through icons. Ultimately he creates a visual text that one may read like an open letter, i.e. epistle.
image: Steve Prince, Living Epistle
As a performative aspect of Prince’s "Urban Epistles" exhibition at CAC, the artist has created a 7’-high artwork here in the Butler Gallery! This piece, titled Second Line III, is part of a larger, four-panel series, for which Prince has created a narrative theme that conceptualizes rebirth after devastation.
Congratulations to Norma J. Kemp of Virginia Beach, who won this extrordinairy drawing valued at $3000!
She will receive the work after it is finished touring in an exhibition titled Art from the Gulf: Reflections of New Orleans, which premiers at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Maryland on May 9, 2006. “Art from the Gulf” is comprised of works by 20 artists who live in the gulf region.100% of the proceeds from the drawing benefit artists affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Each image in the series is created in one of four different cities across the United States: Grand Rapids, Michigan; San Antonio, Texas; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Silver Spring, Maryland. This signifies communities banning together to help one another in a time of need.
>visit the artist's web site
left: Steve Prince, Second Line III
Benny Andrews: Migrant Series
Migrant Series was inspired in part by great American authors including John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor and Langston Hughes, as well as Andrews’ own ancestry. The resulting oil and collage works depict migrants of the dust-bowl era to California and African-Americans to the north.
Organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.
image: Benny Andrews, Cotton Club Study #3
>click these links to learn more
LIVING SYSTEMS:
New Media Work by Tricia McLaughlin and Robert Drummond
>November 17, 2005-January 8, 2006
The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia opens an exciting exhibition this fall featuring contemporary video artists Tricia McLaughlin and Robert Drummond, whose work has been selected for installation in the new Virginia Beach Convention Center. Prior to that unveiling, CAC will showcase some of their current works in Living Systems: New Media Work by Tricia McLaughlin and Robert Drummond.
McLaughlin is probably best known for her digitally animated works, which often depict the characters Hefty Man and Slender Woman (3-D animation characters taken from the InfiniD
software package). She has created virtual aquariums and other apparatus where humans can be viewed behaving as themselves. McLaughlin believes that human behavior creates structure just as structure governs human behavior. Much of her work addresses water as both a vital element to our physical existence and a threat.
Drummond has, of late, been exploring High-Definition technology, as well as ultra-portable, low-resolution cameras. His work integrates video imagery with structural forms to imbue static backdrops with presence and life. By projecting montages across resin figures and textured glass the interplay of light and surface create living, breathing, sculptural entities.
>visit the artists' web sites:
Implied Presence 
Kate Kronick
>November 6, 2005-January 1, 2006
Kate Kronick is an award-winning photographer and teacher who has worked and exhibited in New York City, abroad, and in Hampton Roads. In her recent photographs, she explores ambiguous imagery that suggests a faintly human presence. Combining fabricated scenarios with photography, collage and printmaking, these images investigate the uncanny with a blend of irony, playfullness and pathos.
image: Kate Kronick, Silent Protest at the Tower of Babel
Care Packages: Letters from Iraq and Afghanistan
>November 11, 2005-January 1, 2006
When America goes to war, courageous men and women volunteering in service to their country lead the charge. And each one of them carries a personal history, a family and a unique dedication to the nation. In Hampton Roads, where military families compose the largest segment of the workforce, these soldiers, sailors and airmen are the fabric of the community. From drawings made by children for troops overseas to emails discussing the reality of the battle line, "Care Packages" illuminates the sacrifices our military families make. "Care Packages" examines the most personal communications among military families and their loved ones in modern times.
This exhibition is available for travel. For more information, contact Brenda LaBier, curator, at 757.425.0000 x.27.
Above: photograph courtesy Suzanne M. Speight
>September 15-November 6, 2005
Working on the Water:
Maritime Commerce in the
Hampton Roads Region
New Works by Janos Enyedi
Janos Enyedi's latest series of digital prints and mixed-media assemblages highlight Hampton Roads. Enyedi chose Hampton Roads as the backdrop for his latest exhibition because of the rich tradition of maritime commerce. His industrial landscapes of the Norfolk Terminal, Dominion Terminal, Virginia Port Authority, Lamberts Point Dock, Northrop Grumman, Colonna Shipyard and others are enhanced with digital effects and three-dimensional sculpture to portray the form and function of these local industries. Enyedi was granted access to many of the sites he photographed, giving visitors an opportunity to see theses sights from a privileged perspective.
Industrial landscapes are not new to Enyedi--he has worked his way down the East Coast photographing the steel mills, factories and port facilities of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia and Maryland. His works are not only inspired by the way these buildings and structures look, but what they represent--history, industry, technology and progress. Enyedi's fascination with the adage, "form follows function," is evident in his portrayals of these industrial sites. Enyedi will present a lecture at the opening reception at 7pm.
For more information, visit www.furnaceroadstudio.com
>Select works from the exhibition, as well as an exhibition catalogue, are available for purchase.
>This exhibition is available for travel. Click here for more information.
Image: Janos Enyedi, The Port of Virginia
>September 15-October 30, 2005
The Creation
Tim Rollins + K.O.S.
Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) is an art collective in which Rollins collaborates with at-risk youth, teaching them the importance of art, literature and music. The Creation is the latest installment of this workshop, in which students produced works exploring our cosmic origins while listening to Franz Josef's Haydn's The Creation. The result is an exciting collection of paintings, silkscreens, documentary photographs and video footage.
>Select works from the exhibition, as well as an exhibition catalogue, are available for purchase.
image: Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Midsummer Night's Dream XVI
>July 10-October 2, 2005
Amie Oliver: Angels and Infidels
By recycling classical forms and employing distressed materials, Amie Oliver creates a mixed-media exhibition exploring the history of language, symbols and material culture. Modern icons and classical forms are appropriated into a contemporary context with Oliver's distinctive aesthetic.
Oliver has exhibited her work from New Orleans to Maine in the United States and in Paris and the United Kingdom. She has worked at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, the Vermont Studio Center, the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, the Cite' des Arts Internationale in Paris and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, Virginia.
For more information, visit www.amieoliver.net.
image: Amie Oliver, Infidel
> June 9-September 4, 2005
100 Artists See God
Whether or not one believes in God, whether we describe ourselves as theists, atheists or even anti-theists, we all live in a world that is profoundly influenced by concepts of God. 100 Artists See God brings this topic to the forefront of the artistic debate and acknowledges the prevalence of religion and spirituality in contemporary art, culture and politics both in the United States and abroad. In an effort to promote discourse of diverse ideas, the exhibition asks such questions as: How do contemporary artists see God? How, and why, might the point of view of artists reinforce-or stand in contrast to-that of the general public? And, what comfort or answers do we all seek in spiritual undertakings of varying kinds?
100 Artists See God is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. The guest co-curators are John Baldessari and Meg Cranston.
Featured artists included:
Reverend Ethan Acres | Nicholas Kersulis | Gerhard Richter | Jo Harvey Allen | Martin Kippenberger | Susan Rothenberg | Terry Allen | Rachel Lachowicz | Nancy Rubins | Eleanor Antin | Norm Laich | Glen Walter Rubsamen | Brienne Arrington | Liz Larner | Allen Ruppersberg | David Askevold | Louise Lawler | Ed Ruscha | Lillian Ball | Barry Le Va | Pauline Stella Sanchez | Cindy Bernard | William Leavitt | Kim Schoenstadt | Andrea Bowers | Roy Lichtenstein | Jim Shaw | Delia Brown | Jen Liu | Gary Simmons | Edgar Bryan | Thomas Locher | Alexis Smith | Angela Bulloch | Daria Martin | Yutaka Sone | Chris Burden | T. Kelly Mason | Thaddeus Strode | Mary Ellen Carroll | Rita McBride | Diana Thater | Erin Cosgrove | Paul McCarthy | Mungo Thomson | Michael Craig-Martin | Carlos Mollura |Thorvaldur | Jeremy Deller | JP Munro | Thorsteinsson in collaboration with Helena Jonsdottir | Sam Durant | Bruce Nauman | Jeffrey Vallance | Jimmie Durham | Jennifer Nelson | John Waters | Nicole Eisenman | Eric Niebuhr | Marnie Weber | Katharina Fritsch | Leonard Nimoy | William Wegman | Jonathan Furmanski | Albert Oehlen | Lawrence Weiner | Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe | Catherine Opie | Benjamin Weissman | Liam Gillick |Tony Oursler | James Welling | James Gobel | Jorge Pardo | Eric Wesley | Jack Goldstein | Simon Patterson | John Wesley | Scott Grieger | Hirsch Perlman | Franz West | Andreas Gursky | Luciano Perna | Chris Wilder | James Hayward | Renée Petropoulos | Christopher Williams | Micol Hebron | Raymond Pettibon | Steven Wong | Damien Hirst | Paul Pfeiffer | Måns Wrange in collaboration with Igor Isaksson | Darcy Huebler | Nicolette Pot | Mario Ybarra, Jr. | Christian Jankowski | Richard Prince| Mike Kelley | Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz | Mary Kelly | David Reed | Martin Kersels | Victoria Reynolds |
image: Nicholas Kersulis, In Memory of My Mother
>April 22-June 26, 2005
50th Boardwalk Art Show & Festival:
Selections from the Best in Show
This retrospective exhibition features Boardwalk Art Show's Best in Show winners from the past 50 years. Such noted artists as WIll Corr, Sheila Giolitti, Jeanne Goodman, A.B. Jackson and Robert Thrift will be on view. Join us for this exclusive opportunity to view the treasures from CAC's vault.
image: A.B. Jackson, Veronica's Veil (Best in Show 1966)
>April 22-May 29, 2005
New Waves 2005
New Waves 2005 marks the 10th Anniversary of this regional, juried exhibition. In keeping with its mission to serve the community through education and exhibitions, CAC showcases the region's contemporary artists. Each year artists compete for more than $6,500 in awards and visitors can purchase many of their favorite works from the exhibition. Jurors Sarah Finlay, co-owner of Fusebox in Washington, D.C., and Grady T. Turner, art critic and curator in New York, chose 40 exemplary artists for a showing of 89 works in various media including painting, sculpture, photography, video installation and ceramics.
AWARDS (click to view works)
Best-in-Show $2,250: Jason Hanasik, Navy I
Second Place $1,750: April Taylor-Martin, Trustworthy
Third Place $1,250: Heather Bryant, Resurrection
Honorable Mention $250 (five awarded): Elena Tejada, Rieneke Leenders, Suzanne Marie Cowan, Phoenix Ackiss, Emiko
Phoenix Ackiss Debra Belcher-Chako May Britton Heather Bryant Jennifer Call James Chalkley Helen Chilton Suzanne Marie Cowen Erin Cross Gregory Deming Emiko Evart Cliff Guard Jason Hanasik Dianne Hottenstein |
Solomon Isekeije Patricia Isenhour Helen Jones Jhawn Jones Laraine Kaizer Jerry Kellems Rieneke Leenders Reese Lusk Caroline McGrann Lisa Melita Trisha Midgett Rebecca Nichols Betty Owen Eleanor Powell |
Judith Saunders Elizabeth Sawyer Lee Shepherd April Taylor-Martin Elena Tejada Brendan Tierney Sue Von Ohlsen Gemma Wallace Betty Wells Andrea Whitehurst Anne Wolcott Steven Wolf |
> January 27-April 10, 2005
Pepón Osorio: Trials and Turbulence
Pepón Osorio's provocative installation transforms CAC's Project Gallery into a Family Courtroom. Trials and Turbulence culminates Osorio's three-year Artist-in-Residence at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) . Osorio's exploration of the DHS takes the form of a Family Courtroom, where a young adult confronts the judge who placed her in the foster care system. Using mixed-media and video projection, the work becomes hyper-real in an effort to portray the delicate balance between private life and public policy.
image: Pepón Osorio, Trials and Turbulence (installation detail)
>January 27-April 10, 2005
Family Matters 1 & 2
In his first solo museum exhibition, Jason Hanasik's Family Matters 1 and 2 documents in photographs his own personal reconstructed family history, an emotional project which he has been nurturing over several years.
Enlisted members of his biological family and his adopted family from the gay community are featured in portraits and their images relenquish statements about their individual identities and family structure. This experimental arena quietly reveals the effects of socio-economic class, organizations of power within the family and the social structues and separation of gender and sexuality.
image: Jason Hanasik, Family Meeting
>January 27-April 10, 2005
Maxwell MacKenzie: Tobacco Barns
This exhibition contains the spectacular architectural photographs by Maxwell MacKenzie. More than 70 images are featured, focusing on the abandoned ruins of tobacco barns erected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America. The project photographs old tobacco barns before their inevitable abandonment and eventual ruin. With the clear threat to the way of life of the tobacco farmers, there is an urgent need to preserve, at least on film, these varied treasures in their rich environments. MacKenzie's photographs will serve as a reference for the next generation of architects and historians.
image: Maxwell MacKenzie, Maryland
>January 27-April 10, 2005
Markings
Markings continues Maxwell MacKenzie’s exploration of man’s impact on the natural world. This abstract landscape work focuses on textural, map-like representations of earth. Black & white photographs of markings on tree trunks document patterns of carvings, scratches, initials and private messages, now fused into the scarred bark. MacKenzie’s color aerial views observe the geometric patterns and tracks made by farm machinery.
image: Maxwell MacKenzie, Stoney Brook Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota,
>November 18, 2004-January 16, 2005
EYE CANDY: Works by Clay McGlamory
Clay McGlamory's dynamic use of ink, acrylic panels and light result in works that push the limits of stimulating viewers' optic nerves. These luminous woks, combined with kaleidoscopic prints, are an exciting experience in modular photographic imagery. Using backlighting further heightens luminosity, and modular multiplicity helps extend size and scale, thereby enhancing the visual experience.
image: Clay McGlamory, Onzella's Hubcap
> October 3, 2004-January 16, 2005
Creativity: The Flowering Tornado, Art by Ginny Ruffner
Renowned glass artist Ginny Ruffner has created a mixed-media installation which urges viewers to pause and contemplate art, life and creativity. Within six large gold frames viewers find sculptural forms ranging from spiritual to whimsical. Using metaphor and symbolism, Ruffner has created a glimpse into another world.
> October 7-November 7, 2004
Representing Landscape
Featuring works by six international artists in various mediums, Representing Landscape re-contextualizes landscape art in response to the world. Landscape imagery becomes a means of expressing spiritual, mystical and psychological states. By "re-presenting" landscape imagery in unexpected ways, these artists have taken a new, fascinating approach to landscape art.
image: Marcelo Pombo, Alamos
> August 1-September 19, 2004
In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places
Featuring more than 100 photographs by 12 photographers from around the world, In Response to Place explores the relationship between human beings and the natural world. Contemporary photographers were asked to visit and respond to what The Nature Conservancy considers the "last great places"--ecologically important areas from around the world. The result is portriature, landscape photography and photojournalism which depict the beauty of nature and the reality of human presence.
image: William Wegman, Bay, Cobscook Bay, Maine
