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December 24th, 2009
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Author: Looking back at the year’s exhibits.
by Carol Knowles
It was one heck of a year for Memphis art. The tougher things got, the more sardonic, surreal, and soul-searching artists became with their works. Universities, museums, and galleries, also reflective of the times, mounted particularly moving exhibitions. Memphis College of Art’s January exhibition, “Close to Home: African American Folk Art from Memphis Collectors,” featured one of Hawkins Bolden’s untitled scarecrows. Made out of pots drilled full of holes and held together with brooms and frayed fabric, Bolden’s deeply textured…
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Work by Roy Lichtenstein and Leslie Hewitt.
by Carol Knowles
In his half-century of creative output, Roy Lichtenstein produced much more than the large-scale, comic-book inspired, eye-popping paintings that brought him international fame in the 1960s. The nearly 70 drawings and collages that make up the Dixon Gallery & Gardens’ exhibition “Lichtenstein in Process” include ethereal Chinese landscapes, fluid abstracts, and pop-art homages. In Collage for Art Critic, Lichtenstein’s witty nod to criticism as well as cubism, the critic stands with her nose pressed against a painting and studies it…
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Work by Roy Lichtenstein and Leslie Hewitt.
by Carol Knowles
In his half-century of creative output, Roy Lichtenstein produced much more than the large-scale, comic-book inspired, eye-popping paintings that brought him international fame in the 1960s. The nearly 70 drawings and collages that make up the Dixon Gallery & Gardens’ exhibition “Lichtenstein in Process” include ethereal Chinese landscapes, fluid abstracts, and pop-art homages. In Collage for Art Critic, Lichtenstein’s witty nod to criticism as well as cubism, the critic stands with her nose pressed against a painting and studies it…
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Work by Estes, McIntire, and Ledbetter.
by Carol Knowles
For his David Lusk exhibition “From Peace Mountain,” Don Estes takes birch plywood, vinyl spackling, paint, plaster, and graphite and creates artworks that evoke Barnett Newman’s “zips,” Mark Rothko’s luminous colors, Kasimir Malevich’s blinding whites, and Claude Monet’s Impressionism synthesized with such originality that the end result is unequivocally Estes. Each of the seven horizontal bands that make up Peace Mounain 6 is a work of art unto itself. The bottom of the painting, for example, is a haunting piece…
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Ponce masterpieces at the Brooks.
by Carol Knowles
Masterpieces of European Painting from Museum de Arte de Ponce,” the largest and one of the most accomplished exhibitions ever mounted at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, covers nearly 600 years and every major movement of European painting including Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic, and Modernist art. Complex symbolism, powerful storytelling, expressive brushwork, and poignant, sometimes merciless, emotional realism make the paintings in this exhibition masterpieces in every sense of the word. One of the show’s most…
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Veda Reed, Anne Davey, and Mary Long-Postal take us to the edge.
by Carol Knowles
In “Veda Reed: Keep Looking Up,” the current exhibition at David Lusk Gallery, Reed demonstrates her mastery of glazed skyscapes as she takes us on a journey across large, luminous Midwestern skies to intimations of immortality to transcendence tinged with terror. Color and tone seamlessly gradate from glowing lavender to deep purple to midnight blue to a nearly black but still luminous sky accented with a slender white arc above a single point of light in Venus and the Crescent…
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The spotlight is on Greely Myatt.
by Carol Knowles
Who is Greely Myatt? How could he merit eight running art exhibitions, an unprecedented event in the history of Memphis and the Mid-South? Explore some of his 80-plus installations and sculptures currently on view at Memphis galleries, museums, and alternative spaces, collectively titled “Greely Myatt and exactly Twenty Years,” and you’ll discover that Myatt is one-of-a-kind. Part artist, part Buddha, part son of the South, Myatt has produced a body of work that’s both complex and laced with sly humor…
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