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Henry Art Gallery

Viewfinder
July 14 - December 30, 2007

Henry Art Gallery
Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts
University of Washington
15th Avenue NE and NE 41st Street
Box 351410
Seattle, WA 98195-1410
Gallery information 206.543.2280

http://www.henryart.org

Through a series of "snapshots," Viewfinder touches upon the role of the camera as a mechanical instrument, conceptual agent, and compositional rejoinder in recent art. Suggestive groupings — Frame, Focus, Exposure, Parallax, Cameraless and Voyeur — scan a variety of ripple effects across recent artistic practices of all media. The exhibition casts a particular eye on the distortion of the camera’s conventional operations in the artist’s pursuit of striking images and deeper content.

Since photography’s inception, our world has become an ever more visual culture, where deciphering media images is an increasingly important form of literacy. Viewfinder provocatively suggests that we see photographically and that contemporary artists assimilate the camera’s mechanics as they compose technically and conceptually complex work.

Viewfinder marks the Henry’s 80th anniversary year by highlighting the major works acquired or commissioned by the museum since it expanded in 1997. Rich in photographs, the exhibition also includes videos, installation, prints and paintings by an array of artists: Uta Barth, Sharon Lockhart, Josiah McElheny, Kori Newkirk, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Welling, and many others.

The Henry is unique in the Pacific Northwest as the sole collecting institution devoted to exhibiting and studying cutting-edge contemporary art.

Viewfinder is curated for the Henry Art Gallery by Associate Curator Sara Krajewski. Major support for this exhibition has been provided by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. Additional funding is provided by Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation, ArtsFund, 4Culture/King County Lodging Tax, and PONCHO.

About The Henry Art Gallery
Founded in 1927 on the University of Washington Campus, the Henry Art Gallery was the first public art museum in the State of Washington. The Henry engages diverse audiences in the powerful experience of artistic invention and serves as a catalyst for the creation of new work that inspires and challenges. The museum’s exhibitions bring important works of art to Seattle from throughout the world and bring into public view works of art from the Northwest.

As a celebration of the Henry Art Gallery’s 80th Anniversary, admission to the museum is free through September 3, 2007.

For more information go to: http://www.henryart.org

Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative

The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI)
announces a total of $601,650
is awarded for new exhibition.

Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative
Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage
1608 Walnut Street, 18th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Paula Marincola, Director

http://www.philexin.org

2007 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Awards
The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI) announces grants totaling $601,650 to area organizations in support of excellence and innovation in visual arts exhibitions. PEI has invested close to $8 million in exhibitions in the Philadelphia region over the course of ten years.

The 2007 Exhibition Grant recipients are:

John Bartram Association ($171,650) for Bartram’s Travels Revisited: a collaboration between Mark Dion and the nation’s first botanical garden, to create a project based on the travels of John and William Bartram, noted early American explorers and naturalists.

Philadelphia Museum of Art ($150,000) for William Kentridge: Ten Tapestries: part of the Museum’s ongoing Notations series. The tapestries will be exhibited as a recent development in Kentridges’s work that continues his investigations of the socio-political context of South Africa and extends his interest in drawing and the interconnections of multiple mediums.

The University of the Arts’ ($200,000) Beyond the Surface: Women and Pop Art 1958-1968: a show that examines a historically urgent topic that has not yet been addressed in a significant manner. Beyond the Surface will expand a narrowly defined movement and reevaluate the critical reception of Pop Art, as it rediscovers important female artists working internationally during this period.

The 2007 Planning Grants for project research and development, were awarded to:

The Design Center at Philadelphia University ($20,000) for Lace in Translation: bringing three Dutch design teams together to research the Center’s Quaker Lace archives, resulting in new commissions that explore how the luxury of hand-crafted products intersects with mass production techniques.

Philadelphia Art Alliance ($20,000) for The Sitting Room: Four Studies: this project will incorporate commissioned works in the realms of furniture design, ceramics, plastic, textiles, glass, metal, and paper to create four installations based on the historical concept of the sitting room, and the Alliance’s history as a former residence.

Philagrafika($20,000) for Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious: for further planning by the curatorial team responsible for organizing the first international festival in Philadelphia devoted to printmaking and its contemporary implications.

Tyler Exhibitions at Temple University ($20,000) for Invented Cities: an exhibition that will examine the roles photographic images play in determining and portraying new urban imaginaries in rapidly developing cities across the globe.

PEI grants are awarded on a competitive basis and are selected by a distinguished panel of visual arts professionals: The 2007 panel included:

- Peter Marzio (panel chair), Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
- Darsie Alexander, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Md.
- Doryun Chong, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn.
- Tom Eccles, Executive Director, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
- Hou Hanru, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, San Francisco Art Institute, Calif.
- Leslie King-Hammond, Dean of Graduate Studies, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
- Betti-Sue Hertz, Curator of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, Calif.
- Michael Monroe, Executive Director, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, Wash.
- Wendy Weitman, independent curator, former Curator,Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C.

The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative is one of seven cultural initiatives at the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage (PCAH), funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts.

Please note: Press Release, project descriptions, panel biographies and visual material are also on our web site at http://www.philexin.org or call 267.350.4930.

For more information go to: http://www.philexin.org

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Douglas Gordon: Between Darkness and Light. Works 1989 - 2007
21st April - 12th August 2007

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Hollerplatz 1
38440 Wolfsburg, Germany
phone: +49-5361-2669-0
fax: +49-5361-2669-66
info@kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de
Tuesday: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday to Sunday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Monday:closed

http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de

Once you become immersed in one of Douglas Gordon’s video installations (b. 1966 in Glasgow), it can be very difficult to extricate yourself from its hold. Whether they involve seemingly familiar images, sequences or music from the films of Alfred Hitchcock, historical documentary footage of patients from psychiatric institutions - making the viewer more like a voyeur than a detached observer – or elaborate film productions, his works make recollected material appear familiar and strange at once. Here, good and evil, life and death, guilt and innocence, the banal and the sublime are closely entwined, and sometimes cannot be separated. Douglas Gordon uses a wide range of artistic and filmic techniques to explore the ambivalent sensitivities of human nature: images that have been vastly enlarged or reduced, reflected, inverted, endlessly repeated, speeded up or slowed down, or are brought (temporarily) to a complete standstill. Videos, installations and photographic works by th
e artist will be presented in a giant ‘black box’ situated inside the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg’s main exhibition space. The exhibition is supported by VOLKSWAGEN BANK GmbH.

For more information go to: http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de