David Winton Bell Gallery

Past Exhibitions

Photographs from the Alinari Studio, Florence
September 18, 1999 - October 24, 1999

In conjunction with the exhibition Crafting the Medici,the Bell Gallery present photographs from the Florentine photographic studio of Fratelli Alinari. 

Curated by Vesela Sretenovic
image: Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

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(Im)Mobile Spaces: Paintings by Irene Lawrence and Sculpture by Barbara Westermann
June 12, 1999 - July 11, 1999

(Im)Mobile Spaces features recent abstract paintings by Irene Lawrence and Barbara Westermann's sculptural series Tractatus. Barbara Westermann is a sculptor whose work, while echoing the concerns with social and political issues characteristic of conceptual art, bears the simple and reductive forms of minimalism. Irene Lawrence is a painter whose recent work can be loosely described as abstraction, fluid in its formal composition and elusive in its meaning. Nevertheless, when presented together, Westermann's sculpture and Lawrence's painting work in tandem, offering a harmonious visual display of three-dimensional and two-dimensional forms, motion-less and motion-like spatial enclosures, restful and restless surfaces. And it is this visual interplay of their (im)mobile spaces that reinforces a feeling of contraction and expansion, evoking at the same time an overall sense of perpetual circularity and pulsation.

Curated by Vesela Sretenovic
image: Barbara Westermann, Tractatus, installation view (in process), 1998-99

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Maggie Poor
April 17, 1999 - May 30, 1999

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin

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Donald Sultan: The Domino Prints
April 17, 1999 - May 30, 1999

Curated by Vesela Sretenovic
image: Dominoes, 1990 

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Dorothy Norman
March 15, 1999 - April 4, 1999

Photographs from the 1930-1950s by Dorothy Norman, including portraits of Alfred Stieglitz, Bertolt Brecht and Marc Chagall, as well as landscapes and still lives. Drawn from the permanent collection.

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Georgia O'Keeffe Painting with Light Bulb, 1936

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Student Exhibition 1999
March 15, 1999 - April 4, 1999

An exhibition of artwork by Brown students presented by the David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art. 

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Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology, the Floating World Comes of Age
January 23, 1999 - March 7, 1999

For more than twenty-five years Masami Teraoka has created humorous and irreverant commentaries on contemporary culture, often focusing on the cultural clash between his native Japan and his adopted homeland in the United States. This retrospective of the art of Japanese-American painter Masami Teraoka features more than 30 works.

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Aids Series/Geisha in Bath, 1988 

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Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry
October 24, 1998 - December 13, 1998

Including photographs by Jim Goldberg, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Jack Radcliffe, and Kathy Vargas. Organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Hospice Foundation.

image: Nan Goldin, Emilia, Brooklyn, 1994

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Berenice Abbott's New York, Part II
October 24, 1998 - January 3, 1999

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Greyhound Bus Terminal, 1936

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Symbolism and Simplicity: Korean Art from the Cho Won-Kyung Collection
August 29, 1998 - October 11, 1998

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Song T'ae-hoe, Tiger in Bamboo 

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Berenice Abbott's New York, Part I
August 29, 1998 - October 11, 1998

Returning from Paris to New York in 1929, Berenice Abbott was struck by changes in the city, the result of the second great skyscraper boom. Towers crowded the narrow streets of the financial district and fanned out from Grand Central Terminal in midtown. At first independently and then with the support of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration and the Museum of the City of New York, Abbott set out to “make a documentary interpretation of the City of New York.” Between 1935 and 1939 Abbott produced in excess of one thousand negatives for the project she would later call Changing New York. The final series included 305 photographs supported by historical data compiled by Abbott’s staff of researchers.

The images displayed here—part of the Bell Gallery collection—are from New York in the 30s and Retrospective, portfolios that were printed by the artist and published by Parasol Press in the late 70s and early 80s.

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Gunsmith and Police Department (Lava Gunsmith), ca. 1930

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The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art
April 18, 1998 - May 31, 1998

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: William Traylor, WPA Poster, 1939-42

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