The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art present the work of forty-four artists in Brown’s 35th annual Student Exhibition, on view at the Bell Gallery from Saturday, April 11 to Sunday, April 26, 2015. An opening reception will be held Saturday, April 11, from 7:00pm until 9:00pm. There will be two performances during the reception. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.
The 2015 NCECA Biennial is an international juried ceramics exhibition organized by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and presented at the Bell Gallery in conjunction with Lively Experiments, the 49th Annual NCECA Conference, which will be held in Providence from March 25-28. Jurors for this year’s exhibition are Linda Christianson, Minnesota studio potter; Jo-Ann Conklin, Director of the Bell Gallery; and Anders Ruhwald, Head of Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art. From a slate of 1147 entries, the jurors choose fifty works issuing from 22 states and Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Romania, South Korea and Sweden. Works range from functional pottery to installations with associated video or computer programs.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: detail of Karin Karinson Nilsson, We Take a Deep Breath, 2013
Spanning a period of twenty-four years—from 1989 to 2013—the paintings, sculptures, and videos in SHE present a broad-ranging selection of contemporary depictions of women. Drawn from a private collection, the exhibition includes work by artists, such as Jenny Saville and Cindy Sherman, for whom the position of women in society is a primary concern, along with others who depict women more incidentally. Candice Breitz focuses on the portrayal of women in films, while the sometimes-controversial Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin reproduce images from popular magazines and soft-porn. The comic imagery of R. Crumb is channeled in Rebecca Warren’s crudely rendered female figures. Reworking historic painting styles, Glenn Brown and George Condo create outrageous and gloriously painted women. The idiosyncratic work of Yayoi Kusama is represented by an unusual painted self-portrait, while Chris Ofili's Orgena depicts an iconic African beauty (The title is a reversal of “a negro”). Finally, for Jeff Koons images of women are purely incidental—part and parcel of his Pop renderings. Reflecting the taste of the anonymous collector, the works in SHE combine to present a select overview of art and its approaches to women at the turn of the century.
Curated by: Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: George Condo, The Banker's Wife, 2011
This exhibition of works on paper from the permanent collection is organized around the David Winton Bell Gallery’s recent acquisition of twelve Hilla and Bernd Becher duotone lithographs, Framework Houses, (1970/1993). In 1959 the Bechers began meticulously documenting Germany’s industrial landscape and arranging groups of like images into gridded typologies. Their use of serial order and the grid as organizing principles paralleled the systematic procedures deployed by many minimalist and conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s. This exhibition features work by the Bechers alongside that of Jennifer Bartlett, Agnes Martin, and Frank Stella.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin and Alexis Lowry Murray
Image: Hilla and Bernd Becher, Holzhäuser Straße 2, Allendorf, 1973/1993
Tristan Perich opens at Cohen Gallery on August 23
Audible Spaces presents three sound installations that encourage participants to explore the subtleties of listening. Tristan Perich, Zarouhie Abdalian, and [The User] have each created immersive environments using seemingly uniform sounds that dissolve into tonal, tactile, and temporal variations as participants engage with them. Unified by a shared economy of means, all three projects prompt participants to consider the dynamic relationship between sound, space, and personal subjectivity, while addressing a distinct set of historical, social, and sonic concerns.
Curated by Alexis Lowry Murray
Image: Tristan Perich, Microtonal Wall: 1,500 divisions of four octaves from C3 to C7, 2011
Featuring works by Chicago photographer Melissa Ann Pinney, The Girls of Summer evokes the sights and sounds of that season of leisure—our return to the out-of-doors after the confines of winter and school. As she has since the late 1980s, Pinney focuses on “feminine identity . . . exploring the persistence of the child in the woman and the early cultivation of the woman in the child.” She draws our attention to the joys of tree climbing and the exuberance of a soccer match, and to quieter moments of friendship or contemplation.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: Melissa Ann Pinney, Lake Michigan, August, 2009/2011
In continuing celebration of Brown University’s 250 anniversary, The David Winton Bell Gallery presents Going Nowhere: Alumni Artists in Providence. For Going Nowhere, Peter Glantz '98, Kevin Hooyman '98, Xander Marro '98, Jenny Nichols '01, David Udris '90, and Tatyana Yanishevsky '05 have each produced new works in practices that range from printmaking to performance. Here, narratives of the simple and fantastic are complicated by tensions between wildness and structure, density and ephemerality, and specificity and largeness.
Curated by Jori Ketten '02, with Alexis Lowry Murray '07
Image: Kevin Hooyman, Speed Demons, 2013, Ink and watercolor on paper
Established in March 1764, Brown University will celebrate its 250th anniversary from March 2014 thru May 2015. To mark the semiquincentenary, the David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art have come together to celebrate the significant and distinct contributions that alumni from Brown University have made within the visual arts. Six alumni artists have been invited to present their work in solo exhibitions presented throughout the spring semester, 2014.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin, Wendy Edwards, Alexis Lowry Murray, Ian Alden Russell
Image: Taryn Simon, Cyropreservation Unit, Cryonics Institute, Clinton Township, Michigan, from An American index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
Established in March 1764, Brown University will celebrate its 250th anniversary from March 2014 thru May 2015. To mark the semiquincentenary, the David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art have come together to celebrate the significant and distinct contributions that alumni from Brown University have made within the visual arts. Six alumni artists have been invited to present their work in solo exhibitions presented throughout the spring semester, 2014.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin, Wendy Edwards, Alexis Lowry Murray, Ian Alden Russell
Image: Paul Ramirez Jonas, The Commons, 2011
The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art present the work of talented student artists in Brown's 34th annual Student Exhibition. Exhibition jurors are Providence artist Kelli Rae Adams and painter Susan Lichtman, Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Brandeis University and a Brown alum.
Sculptors on Paper presents prints and drawings by ten post minimal and pop artists known primarily for working in three dimensions. Part of a series highlighting objects from the David Winton Bell Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition sheds light on the parallel, often under-recognized practices of these artists, and provides an intimate lens into their working methods.
Curated by Alexis Lowry Murray and Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1967
An accomplished hyper-realistic draftsman in many mediums, San Antonio-based artist Vincent Valdez composes portraits and scenes that appear to promise historical representation, factual narrative, and, perhaps, truth. His works are, however, fantasies whose misleadingly realistic depiction belie committed and sincere critiques of masculinity, gender roles, and social and political orders. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000, Valdez has exhibited extensively in Texas, the Midwest, the Southwest, and Los Angeles. This exhibition marks his solo debut on the East Coast.
Curated by Ian Alden Russell
Image: Vincent Valdez, Untitled from The Strangest Fruit, 2013
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