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Welcome back! As Bowdoin launches the new academic year, wonderful exhibitions and events are taking shape at the Museum of Art. Go fishing at the Museum on September 7th with Macauley Lord '78, who shares insights on fly casting and the art of Winslow Homer. Join us for programs that conclude the Museum's exhibition of work by Richard Pousette-Dart, and help us to launch the innovative collaborative commission of
Let's Get Lost and
Listening Glass later in the month with artists linn meyers, Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles! More information about these and other great opportunities follow below.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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CLOSING SOON
Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space
Closing September 16, 2018
By 1960, Richard Pousette-Dart was widely recognized for his contributions to Abstract Expressionism. Between 1960 and the mid-1970s, however, the painter explored new artistic strategies and techniques. The resulting works, replete with sparkling colors and brilliant whites, reflect the energy that the artist experienced in his environment. Stressing the immaterial and performative qualities of art and the importance of the creative process itself, Pousette-Dart created a legacy of enduring significance for contemporary artists and viewers.
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Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
This exhibition explores the question of Homer's relationship with the medium of photography and its impact on his artistic practice. As one attuned to appearances and how to represent them, Homer understood that photography, as a new visual technology, had much to reveal. This exhibition adds an important new dimension to our appreciation of this pioneering American painter, demonstrating his recognition that photography did not undermine, but instead complemented his larger artistic interests.
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On September 27, the Museum of Art will open a collaborative, site-specific, multi-media art installation featuring a large-scale wall drawing entitled
Let's Get Lost by linn meyers, a Washington, D.C.-based contemporary artist. meyers will also serve as the 2018-2019 halley k harrisburg '90 and Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence at the College. This important residency will enable students to get to know and learn from meyers over the course of the coming academic year.
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Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting as a Modern Medium
The current exhibition,
Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting| Light| Space, provides the rare opportunity to spend time with several major paintings by one of the great artists of the New York School. Painted between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, the mural-sized works announce a dramatic shift in American art history. Pousette-Dart's artistic trajectory is paradigmatic for his generation. While his groundbreaking paintings in the 1940s and 1950s reveal an affinity with (pre-)historic non-Western and medieval art--sources of inspiration that were then deemed authentic and spiritual--he turned in the 1960s towards modern technology to glean insights into the nature of images.
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Sean P. Burrus, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow
I'm delighted to have landed at the Museum of Art as the 2018-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow. I arrived at the beginning of June and have spent the past few months exploring the collection and enjoying my first summer in Maine. I've been thrilled to discover the truly global reach of our collections and impressed with our exhibitions and programming.
As the curatorial fellow, I'm excited to work closely with Bowdoin faculty to support teaching and research with the Museum's rich collections. As an art historian with a deeply interdisciplinary background (archaeology, anthropology, history of religion), I'm looking forward to continuing our ongoing efforts to encourage new and diverse perspectives at the Museum.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll stop by the Museum this fall! 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
September 6
Lecture by Jennifer Powell
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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September 7
Winslow Homer and Fishing with Macauley Lord '78
4:00 pm
BCMA and Bowdoin Quad
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September 14
Gallery Conversation:
Sarah Montross
5:00 pm
Museum of Art
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September 18
Gallery Conversation: Dana E. Byrd
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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September 22
Family Saturday
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Museum of Art
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September 26
Lecture by linn meyers: "Let's Get Lost: Finding One's Path as an Artist"
7:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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September 27
Open House: Let's Get Lost and Listening Glass
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Museum of Art
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September 28
Noon Hour: Creative Collaboration in Line, Sound, and Gesture
12:00
pm
Museum of Art
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Banner image:
Detail from
The Nooning, ca. 1872, oil on canvas, by Winslow Homer. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection. Sumner Collection Fund. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. CT. Photography: AllenPhillips/Wadsworth Atheneum. This painting is included in the exhibition
Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
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