Spring is here, and we are excited about the new exhibitions and programs that will be blossoming at the Museum. In particular, join us on April 19 for the opening lecture and reception for
Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space
, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by the celebrated Abstract Expressionist artist. Also, please note that several artists will be visiting the Museum this month for special programs, including Byron Kim on April 12, Nyeema Morgan on April 13, and Chris Pousette-Dart, the grandson of Richard Pousette-Dart, on April 20. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum.
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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OPENING SOON
Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space
Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) was the youngest artist among the founders of the New York School. This exhibition focuses on paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s, a fruitful period in Pousette-Dart's career in which his work was widely exhibited, championed by critics, and left a mark on a younger generation of artists..
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Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art
This exhibition explores the experiential, psychological, and metaphorical implications of the nonvisual in American art from the 1960s to today.
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Constructing Drawings with Chicago-based Artist Tony Lewis
In February, fifteen Bowdoin students helped Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis create two large site-specific wall drawings. They were conceived as part of the current exhibition
Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, curated by Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow Ellen Tani. Students worked in two-hour shifts over a long weekend, drilling hundreds of screws into the wall and stretching graphite-dipped rubber bands around them to form wall drawings.
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Stepping into Color: An Exploration of Richard Pousette-Dart's Visionary Paintings of Light and Space from the 1960s and early 1970s
The much-anticipated spring season will bring to the Museum an exhibition that celebrates the beauty and radiance of color. Opening on April 19 and on view throughout the summer,
Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/ Light/ Space invites visitors to immerse themselves in a group of mural-sized canvases by one of the great painters of the New York School.
Their surfaces seem dissolved into dabs of paint of jewel-like colors, evoking unlimited expanses of light-filled space.
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The Sound of Art: Art Museum's 'Second Sight' Exhibit Goes Beyond the Visual
If you check out the latest show at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, you'll encounter the first artwork before even entering the gallery. It's a sound piece, a 1966 creation by composer Steve Reich being played on a loop in the foyer, one of several works in this show with an auditory component
. Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art runs through June 3, 2018, and "goes beyond the purely visual component of art," explains Ellen Tani, the exhibition curator and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll stop by the Museum this spring! There are several exhibitions, featuring art from ancient times to the present, on view for your enjoyment.
For more information, please check our home page, or contact Caroline Baljon, Membership and Programs Coordinator, at (207)-725-3276.
The support of our members helps us to realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public free of charge. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty who are actively engaged at the Museum. If you are not already a member, we hope that you will show your support for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art by
joining today
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calendar
April 3
Gallery Conversation: Reading Room
4:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 5
Art and Movement
7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 10
Film Screening and Discussion: Notes on Blindness
7:00 pm
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall
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April 12
Color and Visual Cognition
4:30 pm
Museum of Art
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April 13
Gallery Conversation: Second Sight
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 14
Family Saturday
10:00 am
Museum of Art
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April 18
Seeing Language
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 19
Richard Pousette-Dart and the Symbolic Power of Organic Forms
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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April 20
Richard Pousette-Dart Rendez-Vous
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 20
Collaborative Community Art Project
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Museum of Art
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April 24
Fashioning a Home in Early America--Celebrating the Decorative Arts
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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April 26
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
5:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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