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Empires and Environments
This exhibition continues the Rose’s recent emphasis on exploring its collection of more than 6,000 pieces, aiming to create and unveil surprising correspondences between images and forms from the old and the new. "Empires and Environments" proposes to address the interface of environments, (psychological, natural, and cultural) with drives that entail the structuring of “empires” in symbolic, imaginary, and real terms. Artists from the Rose collection include Andy Warhol, Max Beckman, Bryan Hunt, Elizabeth Murray, Florine Stettheimer, Eduoard Boubat, R.B. Kitaj, Ross Bleckner, and Jackson Pollock. Joing them will be Rudd Van Empel, John Powers, Nathalie Frank, Kate Gilmore, Kris Lukomski, Wayne Gonzales, Nicole Cherubini, Michael Combs, F:T Architecture, Joan Mitchell, Karl Klingbiel, Tonya Ingersoll, among others.
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Broken Home: 1997/2007
History will “repeat itself” in the Rose Building with a historical recreation of a 1997 New York gallery exhibition, which was one of the first "guest curated" shows in a commercial gallery. “Broken Home, 1997/2007” is a recreation of the influential 1997 exhibition of the same name at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, curated by Meg O’Rourke and Caroline Schneider. Artists in the exhibition included Robert Gober, Vito Acconci, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Franz West, Thomas Demand, among several others. Only a few of the works sold and today, these works are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries
“Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries” is an exhibition featuring important artworks from the Rose’s extensive modern and contemporary art collection. Curated by Adelina Jedrzejczak, Ann Tanenbaum Assistant Curator at the Rose, the exhibition investigates geometrical abstraction’s coming to prominence in American art of the 1950s and 60s. This is accomplished by looking at ways it’s rooted in European art of the 1920s and 30s, exploring its reaction to the emotionality of Abstract Expressionism and the relationship with Minimalism and influence over later art. Centered on two paintings by Ellsworth Kelly – Yellow Curves (1954) and Blue White (1962) – the exhibition includes works by Jean Arp, Josef Albers Leon Polk Smith, Mary Heilmann, Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Al Held and Ad Reinhardt.
read the press release
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Tom Sachs: Logjam
Tom Sachs is known for his effusive installations and constructions of a variety of objects more commonly found within the public or commercial domain. The exhibition, “Tom Sachs: Logjam,” located in the Foster Wing, will feature twelve installations consisting of the artist’s “work stations” and one video showing a day’s activities in the artist’s studio. Sachs’ work stations not only enable him to create art, but are also works of art in their own right. In the truest sense of form following function, Sachs’ fascinating and often obsessive work stations allow the viewer to peer into the rarely seen spaces in which this artist works. The exhibition, the artist’s first major solo museum show in the U.S., is curated by Jeff Fleming, Director of The Des Moines Art Center.
read the press release | Boston Globe article
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Steve Miller: Spiraling Inward
Miller has been exploring the boundaries between art and science for more than 20 years. Emerging in New York in the 1970’s as an abstract painter and conceptual artist, Miller gradually became fascinated with the origins of life and the ways in which such fundamental and unseen realities could be translated into art. Featuring more than three-dozen paintings and drawings, the exhibition will offer a comprehensive view of his attempt to capture visually the most basic functions of living organisms. This is Miller’s first solo museum exhibition in the US.
For the past five years Miller has been working with Nobel Laureate and Brandeis alum Rod MacKinnon to translate MacKinnon’s research in biochemistry into a visual form. MacKinnon, who graduated from Brandeis in 1978, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 for demonstrating how a charged ion moves across a cell membrane. This discovery has had a profound impact on life-curing medications. Miller met MacKinnon in 2002 at which time MacKinnon invited him to use his personal scientific notebooks in Miller’s art. The exhibition is curated by Rose Director Michael Rush.
read the press release | Boston Globe article
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Tiger by the Tail!
Videos by Indian Female Artists
The Rose will showcase videos created by three female Indian artists – Shilpa Gupta, Sonia Khurana, and Navjot Altaf – as part of “Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture,” in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis. As Indian art breaks forth on the global scene, women are leading the way. Socially engaged and politically active, these artists examine the dramatically changing role of women in Indian society. They critique oppressive and restrictive social norms and confront stereotypical representations of the female. The exhibition as a whole will bring together the work of 17 Indian women artists, working in sculpture, painting, photography, and video, whose strong, feminist voices provide new models for the empowerment of women. The exhibition is curated by Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, curator of the WSRC; Elinor Gadon, a scholar at the WSRC; and Indian curator Roobina Karode.
read the press release | Daily News Tribune article
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John Armleder: Too Much is Not Enough
John Armleder (born 1954), is one of the most important and influential Swiss artists of the present day. The Rose features the first extensive exhibition of the artist's multi-layered work in the U.S. that covers the fields of art, design and pop culture. The exhibition will take over all 10,000 square feet of exhibition space in the museum, and will include large and vibrant multi-media installations made from scaffolding, wall-paintings, disco light ball installations, pour and puddle paintings, mesmerizing fluorescent light installations, furniture sculptures, scatter pieces, and much more.
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Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art
In these days of both terrorism and reality TV, Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art explores the complex relationship between voluntary acting for the camera and involuntary taping by a camera on the part of power systems that have an interest in the movement of citizens. Balance and Power features work by a diverse group of artists, from early video pioneers such as Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, and Bruce Naumann, to emerging practitioners such as Jill Magid and Tim Hyde. Other internationally-known artists include Sophie Calle, Jim Campbell, Peter Campus, Jordan Crandall, Harun Farocki, Subodh Gupta, Kevin Hamilton, Tiffany Holmes, Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar, Kristin Lucas, Steve Mann, Jenny Markatou, Jonas Mekas, Muntadas, Martha Rosler, Julia Scher, and Kiki Seror.
The exhibit features a dozen video installations in a uniquely designed space created by Antenna Design Group in New York. There are large-scale installations, single channel tapes, and newly commissioned work. The exhibition was originally organized by the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois and is curated by Michael Rush, the Henry and Lois Foster Director of The Rose.
press release |review in The Pheonix
Kevin Hamilton's Brandeis Installation|Kevin Hamilton's Urbana-Champaign Installation
The Mildred S. Lee Gallery and The Lois Foster Wing
September 21 - December 17, 2006
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Erwin Wurm: I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time
There are few artists in the world who have utilized the darkly comical potential of digital and performance art like Austrian-born Erwin Wurm who has gained an international reputation for challenging traditional notions of sculpture, photography, performance art and drawing. His classic One Minute Sculptures invite audiences to participate in the creation of temporary sculpture by using their bodies to interact with a variety of common objects according to the artist's instructional drawings. I Love my Time, I Don't Like my Time: Recent Works by Erwin Wurm is a comprehensive survey that highlights more than ten years of smart, beautiful and humorous production. The centerpiece of the exhibition, Wurm’s Fat House is an impossibly voluptuous edifice made to stand as a life-sized house. The piece incorporates I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time, an animated video featuring Wurm's sculpture Fat Car, a cartoonish, blubbery depiction of a car. The car burbles on monotonously, laying out an array of contradictions and isolated yearnings that are disconnected non-sequiturs about the impact of our consumer culture.
press release | Boston Globe article | WBUR feature
The Rose Building, The Lois Foster Wing
April 27 – July 30, 2006
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Sarah Walker: Paintings
Sarah Walker’s exhibition at The Rose will be the first one-person museum exhibition of the Boston painter. The artist’s work encapsulates numerous different spatial systems based on patterns and diagrams found within the sciences, technology, nature, and architecture as well as the virtual spaces of the internet and the mind. These different systems in Walker’s paintings are layered on top of each other, while deeper layers fade into the background but never disappear. The interweaving and cross-communication of dissimilar patterns form a moiré effect on the mind. Ultimately, the artist’s paintings address a need for finding ways to visualize the experience of multiple and ever more permeable realities. "How does the mind consolidate an image that combines both the physical and the virtual?" Walker inquires. "How does it manage to have the visual terms of both the inner and outer landscapes coexist simultaneously? It is here, in this nexus of physical and virtual space that I aim to build a new set of terms for thinking and being."
The Boston Globe Magazine | Boston Globe article | WBUR feature
The Mildred S. Lee Gallery
April 27 – July 30, 2006
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Dana Schutz: Paintings 2001-2005
New York City-based Dana Schutz's ecstatically imaginative paintings, executed in a vibrant, subjective palette, have made a major contribution to the discourse of painting since the artist first began exhibiting her work five years ago. This exhibition will bring together significant examples of the different bodies of work that constitute this young, celebrated artist's oeuvre.
more information | interview |press release | catalogue | New York Times article | Boston Globe article | Greater Boston TV clip |Rush Interactive interview | Zach Feuer Gallery | Saatchi Gallery
The Lois Foster Wing
January 19 - April 9, 2006
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"Post" and After: Contemporary Art from the Brandeis Collection
Selections from the Brandeis University Art Collection, focusing on works from the 1980s to the present. Katy Siegel, the 2005 Henry Luce Visiting Scholar of American Art and curator of the exhibition, investigate the afterlife of the once all-defining concept of postmodernism.
more information | audio guide
The Rose Building
September 15, 2005 - April 9, 2006
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Spot On: Current Works from the Studio Art Faculty
A display of pieces created by the studio art faculty of Brandeis University. Exhibited artists include Chris Abrams, Markus Baenziger, Graham Campbell, Sean Downey, Tory Fair, Alfredo Gisholt, Susan Lichtman, Kayla Mohammadi, Richard Ryan and Joe Wardwell.
Mildred S. Lee Gallery
March 11 - April 9, 2006
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Oliver Herring: On the Cusp
This politically charged installation is part of Oliver Herring's most recent series of photo-sculptures. In these enigmatic works, the artist painstakingly transforms cut-out photographs of his subjects into three-dimensional multifaceted portraits.
The Mildred S. Lee Gallery
January 19 - March 4, 2006
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Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise
A feast for the eyes and the imagination, Tomaselli's collaged paintings combine the natural and the unnatural worlds. His work plays with the longstanding idea of creating paintings that serve as a window onto another reality. This exhibition was organized and circulated by the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
The Lois Foster Wing
September 15- December 11, 2005
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Alvin Lucier: Chambers
In this installation, experimental music pioneer Alvin Lucier explores the spatiality of sound by enclosing recordings in various found objects--for example, the sounds of rush hour in a train station emanating from a thimble--revealing the natural resonances of spaces, rooms, and objects.
The Mildred S. Lee Gallery
September 15- December 11, 2005
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UPCOMING EVENTS
INSIDE VIEW: The Weight of Air
Saturday, May 31, 2 p.m.
Join Michael Rush, Henry and Lois Foster Director, for a gallery tour of the Rose exhibition The Weight of Air, the first major museum solo show of Alexis Rockman's latest works.
The Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist in Residency: Alexis Rockman
Artist Talk and Award Ceremony
Thursday, June 5, 5 p.m.
Join painter Alexis Rockman for a special evening at the Rose that will include an artist talk and award ceremony followed by a reception. Rockman will discuss the historical influences and scientific aspects that inform his new body of works. Rockman will receive the Annual Perlmutter Artist in Residency Award. The Perlmutter Award confirms the Rose's role in introducing important emerging artists to cultural and educational communities.
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