Archive for September 2016
CHERYL GOLDSLEGER: Recent Works
Goldsleger’s works are inspired by relationships between location and territory, between micro detail and macro expanse, and between order and chaos. Using a highly nuanced palette of whites, greys, blacks and muted colors, these new works deconstruct reality into the two-dimensional plane. Although rooted in reality, these mixed media paintings and drawings are constructed in…
Read MoreThere was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman at the Smart Museum of Art
An extraordinary collection of 830 photographic works spanning from 1844 to 2012, given as a bequest to the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, forms the basis of “There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman” exhibition. There was a whole collection made mines the Estate of Lester and…
Read More“Cats and Hats” and “Turtle Power! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Samurai Heroes” at the Springfield Museums
Next summer, the Springfield Museums will open The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss, the first museum to honor Springfield native Theodor Geisel. In anticipation of that momentous occasion, the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts will exhibit a series of whimsical works on paper around the common theme of “Cats in Hats,” in…
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