Summer 2012 Events All Are Welcome
CAS Prize 2012
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Heidi Pollard
Land Buoys, 2011
Papier maché, corks, spray paint,
Forth prize, Courtesy of the artist
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Friday, June 1 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Raymond Jonson Gallery of the UNM Art Museum
Exhibition Opening
Contemporary Art Society Prize Show
The University of New Mexico Art Museum is delighted to celebrate contemporary artists in New Mexico by sponsoring the first Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico (CAS) juried exhibition. Jurors Dave Hickey, Libby Lumpkin of the Department of Art & Art History, and Luanne McKinnon, Director, UNM Art Museum awarded four prizes for excellence in the visual arts to Xuan Chen (1st prize), Kate Carr (2nd prize), Cedra Wood (3rd prize), and, Heidi Pollard (4th prize).
Tuesday, June 19 at 5:30 pm
Raymond Jonson Gallery of the UNM Art Museum
Gallery Talk
Please join us for an informal gallery walk by all four CAS Prize artists in the Raymond Jonson Gallery on the lower level of the Museum. The event is free and open to the public.
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Museum Week, June 12-15
Four New Museum Events
Museum Book Club
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Tuesday, June 12 at 5:30 pm
Main Gallery of the UNM Art Museum
Book Club
Rebecca Solnit's
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
At last----a place for art and book lovers to meet, discuss books and enjoy art. Join us for a great summer read in conjunction with
Re-Considering the Photographic Masterpiece. Come to our book club discussion or read the book in your own book club and then schedule a tour of the exhibition. Limited to 25 participants.
Please click here for Discussion Guide. Bring a friend!
To reserve a space or to schedule a tour of the exhibition for your book club, e-mail sodiniz@unm.edu.
Books may be purchased at the;Art Museum's Book Shelf for $14.60, Bookworks or Page One bookstores in Albuquerque (discount provided for UNMAM Book Club participants).
"River of Shadows is never less than deeply intelligent, and often very close to inspired. It belongs to that wondrous class of books…in which an extraordinary mind seizes hold of an unexpected topic and renders it with such confidence, subtlety and grace that one finds it hard to remember what things looked like before the book appeared in the world.”
-Jim Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
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Curator's Tour |
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William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877)
Kings College Chapel, South Entrance, Cambridge,
c.1843, Salt print, Gift of Eleanor and Van Deren Coke
72.140
Mike Disfarmer
Untitled, c.1940, Gelatin silver print
Gift of Ronald G. Weiner
2007.6.3
| Wednesday, June 13 at 2:00 pm
Main Gallery of the UNM Art Museum
Considering the Masterpiece
Join Michele Penhall, Curator of Prints and Photographs, for this conversational tour of the current exhibition Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece which both celebrates and interrogates the concept of 'masterpiece.'A few of the images that will be discussed include an early salt print by one of the inventors of photography, Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot, along with twentieth-century studio portraits by Mike Disfarmer, an eccentric American photographer who worked in near obscurity in Heber Springs, Arkansas. |
Meeting of the Minds |
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"Talking in museums is one of the things that makes them matter…. they are places to go and see things,…and talk about things, and, through talking, to understand something about the way life takes place in time." - Adam Gopnik
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Tamas Dezso
Night Watchman (Budapest), 2009,
Chromogenic print,
Purchased with funds from the Friends of Art
2012.4.1
| Thursday, June 14 from Noon to 1:00 pm
Main Gallery of the UNM Art Museum
Meeting of the Minds
T. Zane Reeves, Ph.D., formerly UNM School of Public Administration and author of Shoes Along the Danube, and Steve Borbas, retired Adjunct Associate Professor, UNM School of Architecture and Planning, will facilitate an informal discussion of Hungarian photographer Tamas Dezso’s Night Watchman (Budapest), 2009.
Tamas Dezso (Hungarian, b. 1978) is a documentary photographer whose poignant images focus on the margins of society throughout Eastern Europe including Hungary and Romania. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Dezso has received numerous awards and honors including being named Hungary’s Photographer of the Year in 2005 and securing the Grand Prize at the Biennale Jeune Création Européenne Montroug in Paris, France in 2011.
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Fabulous Fours |
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Cedra Wood
Landed, 2011, Acrylic on panel,
Third prize, Courtesy of the artist
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Friday, June 15 10:00-11:00 am
Meet in the Lobby of the UNM Art Museum
Fabulous Fours—What’s Your Line?
Four year olds accompanied by an adult are invited to explore lines through a children’s classic in literature, Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. We will build vocabulary (straight lines, curvy lines, zig-zag lines), engage our imaginations, and participate in motor activities while identifying many types of lines. Art work by Xuan Chen, Kate Carr, Cedra Wood, and Heidi Pollard in the CAS Prize exhibition will expand our discoveries. An art studio session will complete the experience.
Limited to 10 children. $5 each. To reserve a space, e-mail sodiniz@unm.edu.
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