Rolling Sculptures The Art of Harley-Davidson at Milwaukee Art Museum

Rolling Sculptures: The Art of Harley-Davidson
Milwaukee Art Museum
August 1 - September 14, 2003

Rolling Sculptures: The Art of Harley-Davidson is the first museum-quality presentation to explore the timeless design and styling of America's most iconic motorcycles. Developed and curated by Harley-Davidson Motor Company as part of its official 100th Anniversary activities, with guidance from Willie G. Davidson, Harley's senior vice president of styling and grandson of one of the company's founders, the exhibition includes rare renderings, models and drawings that have never been seen before by the public. 

Often referred to as "rolling sculptures," Harley-Davidson motorcycles are recognized around the world for their stunning visual appeal. This exhibition explores the artistry that is the essence of the Milwaukee motorcycle maker's products, and features a number of important milestones in the company's rich design history. The milestones include the development of highly styled "factory customs" first introduced in the 1970s; the creation of tank designs, logos and other graphics; and the development of the new V-Rod line which adds a new dimension to the famous Harley-Davidson look. 

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53202
www.mam.org

Updated 03.07.2019

Cildo Meireles, Miami Art Museum

Cildo Meireles
Miami Art Museum
July 18 - October 26, 2003

Miami Art Museum (MAM) presents an exhibition by Brazilian artist CILDO MEIRELES. For MAM's New Work series, Cildo Meireles is installing Strictu, a room-size environment being shown for the first time in the United States. Curated by MAM Associate Curator, Cheryl Hartup, Cildo Meirele's project explores relationships of power, control and other aspects of authoritarianism, an ongoing theme in the artist's work. The installation occupies the entire gallery, creating a walk-through space formed by chains on the floor, ending at a brightly lit table with two chairs.

"Cildo Meireles is one of the most original artists at work today. Even though he is internationally known, his installations are rarely seen in the United States. We are delighted to present his work to a wider audience in Miami," said MAM Director, Suzanne Delehanty.

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil's most significant living artists. Cildo Meireles embarked on his career in the 1960's and became part of an avant-garde that set a new agenda for Brazilian art. Cildo Meireles is known for dramatic, multi-sensory environments that intimately involve the viewer. The idea for Strictu, came to Cildo Meireles while visiting New York City in 1999. In his hotel room, Cildo Meireles turned on the television and saw a program about racial conflicts in the United States during the 1960s. He watched as a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan said, "We want to steal their time. We want to steal their space. We want to steal their minds." This statement of intent left a deep impression on the artist and became the impetus for Strictu. The words of the Grand Wizard are displayed on the wooden table in the exhibition at MAM.

During the 1960s and 70s Cildo Meireles responded to Brazil's repressive military regime and to the brutal authoritarianism of the time by challenging established ideas about art. Like the work of his predecessors, two of Brazil's most famous artists -- Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark -- Cildo Meireles often makes his work participatory, addressing socio-political and cultural concerns. The suggestion of danger and denial of freedom are recurring motifs Cildo Meireles' projects.

In one of Cildo Meireles' installation, shown in the late 80s, visitors had to cross a floor covered with broken glass in order to navigate a labyrinth of barriers. In 1994, he created an installation consisting of a dark, L-shaped room with a foot of talcum powder on the floor and a single lit candle around its turn, the smell of gas permeating the space. Cildo Meireles uses surprise and contradiction to perplex the viewer by playing with expectations and common understandings.

For nearly 40 years, Cildo Meireles has created drawings, paintings, objects, performances and installations that explore the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary. He is known for working with mundane materials like money, bones, chalk, charcoal, clocks and rulers. With these humble materials, he creates seductive environments that convey powerful socio-political statements and ideas about perception, time, and space.

Cildo Meireles' work has been seen at Miami Art Museum in three previous group exhibitions: Dream Collection Gifts and just a few Hidden Desires in 1997, Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s in 2000 and Re/Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing in 1998. Cildo Meireles has participated in biennials in São Paulo, Brazil, Johannesburg, South Africa, Sidney, Australia, Venice, Italy, and Kwangju, South Korea, in addition to the international art exhibition Documenta IX (1992) and XI (2002) in Kassel, Germany.

MIAMI ART MUSEUM
101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130
www.miamiartmuseum.org

Greg Rose: Paradise Redux, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City

Greg Rose: Paradise Redux 

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City 

July 11 – October 5, 2003 

GREG ROSE 

Paradise, 2003 

Oil and alkyd paints on canvas on wood panel, 60 x 96 inches 

Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

Photo: Gene Ogami

The exhibition Greg Rose: Paradise Redux brings together five large-scale paintings in which Rose finds a balance between contemporary art and traditional Asian aesthetics. The resulting paintings are both soothing and unnerving. The exhibition Greg Rose: Paradise Redux is on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art where Greg Rose is an artist in residence. 

 

Los Angeles-based artist Greg Rose makes landscape paintings that combine the flat, psychedelic-colored style of southern California painting with traditional Asian landscape painting. In Greg Rose’s works, viewers will see elements of ikebana, Japanese flower arranging, as well as mysterious Chinese landscape elements. His intensified phosphorescent hues and disquieting color combinations complicate any easy reading of his images. Rose’s paintings are places of reinvention, cultural blending, and promise.

Greg Rose: Paradise Redux is the artist’s first museum exhibition. It features five monumental paintings and a Chinese Ming Dynasty bench.

KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

4420 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64111

www.kemperart.org

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Keith Carter: Poet of the Ordinary, San Jose Museum of Art

Keith Carter: Poet of the Ordinary

San Jose Museum of Art

July 26 – September 14, 2003

The San Jose Museum of Art presents Keith Carter: Poet of the Ordinary, which features approximately 50 black-and-white photographs by master photographer KEITH CARTER, provides a broad overview of this Texas based artist’s work. Keith Carter creates compelling images that speak to the inherent beauty in the people, places, and things we see every day. Keith Carter takes as his subject that moment of transcendence when the commonplace becomes the extraordinary.

Keith Carter: Poet of the Ordinary, organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, comprises approximately 50 photographs, some of which have not yet been published. In addition, SJMA augments the exhibition with a selection of photographs by Keith Carter drawn from its permanent collection. Although Carter’s work is collected by numerous individuals and prestigious institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMOMA, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, this is the first time such an extensive body of his work has been exhibited in California.

Cited by The Los Angeles Times as a “poet of the ordinary,” Keith Carter says about his work, “I am trying to create a dialogue with life, to learn what being human is all about…to capture the mystery of the human spirit.” Myth and metaphor form the foundation of Carter’s imagery, which transforms the literal into the symbolic. Keith Carter approaches his subject matter with humor and celebration. His ghostly figures and animals, quirky masked characters, and brooding landscapes explore the surrealism that infuses everyday rituals and moments.

Keith Carter began his photographic career with the goal of capturing the people and spirituality of the Southern landscape where he was raised. He discovered that a sense of place, grounded in local lore and legend, gave him the freedom to concentrate and provided him entry into the lives of people previously only on the fringes of his consciousness. Now, some 30 years later, Keith Carter casts his uniquely observant eye in search of those enigmatic details of life — wherever he happens to be, whether it’s Paris, Prague, Venice, or an airplane graveyard in the middle of nowhere. Tackling such photographic clichés as the Eiffel Tower, gondoliers in Venice, and Nôtre Dame, Keith Carter proves that his vision translates across oceans. This exhibition is based on his most recent books, Holding Venus and Ezekiel’s Horse, and also includes his new work Boneyard.

Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. Born in 1948 in Madison, Wisconsin, he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey grants, and the Lange-Taylor Prize for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1997, Keith Carter was the subject of an arts profile on the national television program, “CBS Sunday Morning” a taped copy of this interview will be available for viewing adjacent to the exhibition.

SJMA - SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

110 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113

www.sjmuart.org

Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders": Pictures and Audio from the 1960s at Milwaukee Art Museum

Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders": Pictures and Audio from the 1960s
Milwaukee Art Museum
Through September 14, 2003

Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders": Pictures and Audio from the 1960s takes a new look at photojournalist Danny Lyon's seminal series The Bikeriders, which documented motorcycle club culture in the Midwest. Two special aspects of this exhibition are the inclusion of previously unreleased images from the original vintage negatives, and audio recordings of interviews Lyon conducted with racers and members of the Chicago and Milwaukee motorcycle club he knew when he was shooting the series. 

By including both audio and visual, Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders" attempts to communicate the authentic and intimate relationship of the artist to his subject, and give visitors both a realistic and romantic window into the biker world of the 1960s. 

Danny Lyon (born 1942) is one of the most significant documentary photographers and filmmakers of the late twentieth century. His career began in the early 1960s when he photographed for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in their campaign for Civil Rights in the South. Other major projects include a series on Midwest motorcycle club members, inmates in Texas penitentiaries, demolition derby drivers, the destruction of Lower Manhattan through urban renewal, revolutions in Haiti and life in inner city Brooklyn. The exhibition is guest curated at MAM by Michael Davidson and Tom Kenney.

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53202
www.mam.org

Updated 30.07.2019

Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City

The Whitney Museum of American Art is a leading advocate of 20th and 21st-century American art. Founded in 1930, the Museum is widely regarded as the preeminent collection of 20th-century American art and includes the entire artistic estate of Edward Hopper, the largest public collection of works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, and Lucas Samaras, as well as significant works by Arshile Gorky, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol, among other artists. With its history of exhibiting the most promising and influential American artists and provoking intense critical and public debate, the Whitney’s signature show, the Biennial, gauges the state of contemporary art in America today. First housed on West 8th Street, the Whitney relocated in 1954 to West 54th Street and in 1966 inaugurated its present home at 945 Madison Avenue, designed by Marcel Breuer. The Whitney is currently moving ahead with plans to build a second facility, designed by Renzo Piano, located in downtown New York at the entrance to the High Line in the Meatpacking District.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art: 
A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet > Through January 3, 2010
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction > Through January 17, 2010
Roni Horn aka Roni Horn > Through January 24, 2010
Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer > Through January 24, 2010
Omer Fast: Nostalgia > December 10, 2009 - February 14, 2010
2010 Biennial > February 25–May 30, 2010
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield Opens June 24, 2010

The museum is located at 945 Madison Avenue, New York City. Museum hours are: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., closed Monday and Tuesday. For more information, visit http://www.whitney.org/.

Updated: 22-12-2009