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MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH
The Collection and Then Some
After a lively summer and fall of dynamic temporary exhibitions, the Museum will focus on the collection this winter and spring. The Collection and Then Some includes nearly 100 works, covering both floors of the Museum. Chief Curator Michael Auping describes the exhibition, “Now and then, we like to air out as much of the collection as we can. In this case we are giving the collection a slightly new face. Along with many old favorites, we are bringing out some works from storage that have not been seen in some time. There are a few guest appearances of works that are not in the Modern’s holdings, but are borrowed from area collections. It should provide an interesting dialogue between various mediums and approaches to imagery.” The Collection and Then Some will open in two stages, with the first floor now on view and the second floor opening January 25.
FOCUS: Ranjani Shettar
Ranjani Shettar makes sculptural installations that combine industrial and handmade materials. The artist is best known for her stunning suspended works, such as Just a bit more, 2005-06, made of delicate webs of beeswax which recently won wide acclaim in this year’s 55th Carnegie International. Exploring the relationship between unlikely materials and what they can seem to represent, Shettar creates sculpture that is both ethereal and grounded. Her work can be linked to craft-making traditions, but Shettar’s chosen materials and her process of reduction also directly relate to Minimalism and post-Minimalism. After FOCUS: Ranjani Shettar, the artist will open a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
FOCUS: Jeff Elrod
To create his large, abstract canvases, Jeff Elrod explores the intersections between drawing and painting, words and pictures, organic and geometric form, and digitally generated and freely drawn imagery. The artist begins his process with what he refers to as “frictionless drawings,” made with a computer mouse and a simple computer graphics program. The detached, graphic quality and compressed, shallow space of his initial sketches are inherent to the digital age of drawing. Yet, through Elrod’s creative process-the action of transferring the drawings onto canvas by hand—space and imagery take on a hybrid quality in which flatness and depth coexist. This exhibition will mark the artist’s first solo exhibition in an American museum.
FOCUS: Rosson Crow
The upcoming FOCUS exhibition featuring work by painter and native Texan Rosson Crow showcases the artist’s large-scale, vivid depictions of nostalgia-laden interiors that blend aspects of history with theatricality. Interior spaces are the foundation upon which Crow constructs her hotly colored, dripping tableaus, which often include Modernist architectural triumphs, such as Los Angeles’s Koenig House. The artist’s canvases also evoke the romance of a bygone era by matching the masculine environments of rodeos, saloons, and trophy rooms with a lush, expressionist style. FOCUS: Rosson Crow will mark the artist’s first solo exhibition in a museum.
William Kentridge: Five Themes
William Kentridge: Five Themes features the most comprehensive survey to date of the films, drawings, books, prints, sculptures, and stage designs by this influential contemporary South African artist. The exhibition features the first American presentation and catalogue of the new work Kentridge has created since 2000 that dramatically expands his technical innovations as an artist filmmaker, enlarges the scale of his work in stage design and installation art, and extends his themes beyond the impact of apartheid in South Africa. Organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Norton Museum of Art, the exhibition will also travel to the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Susan Rothenberg: Moving In Place
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a special exhibition of twenty-five paintings by Susan Rothenberg. The Modern’s Chief Curator, Michael Auping, and the artist have identified a select group of paintings that span the artist’s career—from the early horse paintings of the mid-1970s, to her most recent body of work, which explores a number of central motifs that have occurred throughout the artist’s 35-year career. Auping comments: “Rather than focusing on Rothenberg’s famous early horse paintings as the beginning of a symbolic, figurative evolution, we are looking at the artist’s work from a more holistic, formal standpoint, identifying her unusual way of organizing pictorial space, regardless of the figurative content.” Each painting in the exhibition will highlight key compositional strategies in a formal narrative where perceived movement, fragmentation, and painterly gesture establish a dynamic interaction with the edges and frames of her canvases. The exhibition is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in conjunction with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe.
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