Albuquerque: UNM Art Museum Exhibitions

Dear Homeschoolers,

Hope you're all enjoying your summer vacation, freeing your creative
spirits and planning for next year.

I'm sending along information about our summer and early fall exhibitions
in case you want to wander down to campus and treat yourself and your
children to some lovely exhibitions and/or plan for an early fall semester
field trip. (Remember if you have 10 students, you can call to schedule a
museum educator!) FYI, our major spring exhibition, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis:
A Road to Beauty (Feb. 26-May 18), will have many curricular connections.
As an artist, she studied at the Bauhaus in its early years and was later
incarcerated at Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic where she
taught art to the children. This will be a popular field trip exhibition,
so be sure to schedule your dates early.

Happy Summer,
Sara

DATES AND TIMES FOR EVENTS

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ART MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Body and Soul-Ibero-American Colonial Art In Context
January 23 - August 5, 2007
Curated by students under the direction of Professor Ray Hernández-Durán,
the installation will include paintings, prints, books, and sculpture. Many
of the paintings formerly belonged to the International Institute of
Iberian Colonial Art but were recently gifted to the Palace of the
Governors in Santa Fe. Other works were borrowed from the Jan and Frederick
Mayer collection, Denver, Colorado, the collection of Mr. Dominic Serna,
Albuquerque, the Center for Southwest Research at UNM, and the UNM Art
Museum. The primary objective is to present the material in a format that
will facilitate a better understanding of the original contexts of
production, display, and interpretation.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Professor Hernández-Durán has
coordinated this year's Gale Memorial Speaker Series. Six art historians
from institutions across the country and Mexico City will visit Albuquerque
throughout the spring semester to lecture on different colonial topics.
Invited speakers include: Thomas B.F. Cummins, Harvard University; Jeanette
F. Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara; Juana Gutiérrez
Haces, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Mexico City; Kelly
Donahue-Wallace, University of North Texas, Denton; Sofia Sanabrais, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; and Cristina Cruz González, Getty Research
Institute, L.A. The lectures will be held in the UNM Art Museum on Thursday
afternoons during February, March and April beginning at 4:00 pm.

Diebenkorn in Print: 1961-1983
June 5 - August 5, 2007
Diebenkorn in Print, 1961-1983 is being presented in conjunction with the
major retrospective exhibition Diebenkorn in New Mexico, 1950-1952, on
display through September 9, 2007 at the Harwood Museum in Taos. It is
well-known that Richard Diebenkorn is one of America's most celebrated
abstract painters. Less familiar, perhaps, is that he was a prodigious
printmaker, creating in his lifetime nearly two hundred etchings, woodcuts,
and lithographs. Most of these prints were produced through two of this
country's premier independent presses: Crown Point Press in Oakland, for
the etchings and woodcuts, and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los
Angeles, for the lithographs. The University Art Museum is pleased to
present examples from both of these groundbreaking institutions
representing over twenty years of the artist's long and prolific engagement
with prints.

The Evolution of Disarticulation: Gail Wight
June 26 - September 9, 2007
"The obsession to make art is a neurological disease," declares Gail Wight
on her web site. And in exploring her obsession, Wight has performed
biochemical experiments on her self, read stories to fish, given her body
to science and then asked for it back. Together with these conceptual
acts, Wight's work investigates the merging of art and science in the
broadest sense. She questions both the authority and objectivity put forth
by the hard sciences in didactic yet humorous ways. Wight also challenges
an empirical view of the world versus a view that is perhaps more fluid and
less quantifiable. Wight received her B.F.A. from the Massachusetts
College of Art and her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute where
she was the Jacob K. Javits Fellow in New Genres. In 2003 she was awarded
the Adaline Kent Award for the Evolution of Disarticulation project. Her
work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe,
England, Australia, and New Zealand. She is currently Associate Professor
of Experimental Media Arts in the Department of Art and Art History at
Stanford University. The work in the exhibition includes photographs,
small-scale installations, and interactive DVDs. It is an exhibition that
will appeal to a wide range of individuals of all ages and interests.

Landscapes without Memory: Photographs by Joan Fontcuberta
August 21 - October 14 , 2007
Tinkering with geography and cartography, Joan Fontcuberta creates
fantastic color landscape photographs by combining iconic images from the
history of art and close-up images of the human figure with software
designed for military and scientific applications. These are imagined
landscapes that bring together aspects of science, art, and technology,
while posing questions about authenticity and representation.
Geoffrey Batchen, former Professor of Art and Art History at UNM from
1996-2002, and currently Professor of the History of Photography and
Contemporary Art at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York wrote Photography
by the Numbers, an essay for the book that accompanies the exhibition. He
will speak about Fontcuberta on Tuesday, August 21 at 5:30pm.

Honoring Aphra Behn
September 25 - November 11, 2007
In celebration of the annual 2007 Aphra Behn Society Conference hosted this
year by the UNM Department of English, the UNM Art Museum presents an
exhibition of prints from our permanent collection, including engravings
from William Hogarth's series Industry and Idleness, that celebrates
eighteenth century European culture.

Examining Touch Through Photography
Nov. 27, 2007 - January 20, 2008
For her Senior Honors Thesis project, guest curator Shawna Cory Reeves
explores the sense of touch using passages from the Oxford English
Dictionary and nineteenth and twentieth-century photographs from the UNM
Art Museum collection. She will present a lecture on her project November
27 at 5:3pm.

Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise
November 30, 2007 - February 10, 2008
This traveling exhibition from the Palm Springs Art Museum brings together
over fifty photographs from twenty-six American photographers including
Thomas Barrow, Patrick Nagatani, Mark Klett, Wanda Hamerbeck, and Lee
Friedlander. Rather than concentrating on sublime beauty or the history of
landscape images, these artists have approached the landscape from the
perspective of mankind's intervention and impact on our deserts. Tom
Barrow will talk about his work from this exhibition on Nov. 13 in the
museum.


JONSON GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Holding Stillness: An Installation by Sara Magnuson
May 11 - June 22, 2007

CHICAGO MODERN:
Jonson, Nordfeldt, Erickson, Sloan, Hoeckner, et al.
June 29 - August 17, 2007
The 58th Annual Jonson Summer Exhibition.




Sara Otto-Diniz
Training and Development Consultant
University of New Mexico Art Museum
MSC04 2570
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 277-4010
http://UNMartmuseum.unm.edu

"The tour made me be able to look into the soul of a painting and its
meanings. Thank you." 7th grade student