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Our Positive Bodies
Through December 18, 2009
Coming from the Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) in Kenya, Africa, TICAH members recently visited Bates to conduct a workshop with patients from the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer. Come and see body maps recently added to the exhibition by these workshop participants.
Barry Nemett: Drawings from Italy
Through December 18, 2009
Nemett, Chair of the Painting Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is also the author of a textbook, Images, Objects, and Ideas: Viewing the Visual Arts (McGraw-Hill, 1992) and the novel, Crooked Tracks (Barnhardt & Ashe, 2007).
The Museum will be hosting an Artist’s Talk and book-signing for his recent book Paintings, Poems and Passages (AuthorHouse, 2009) on Thursday, October 29th at 7pm in room 104 of the Olin Arts Center.
Joel M. Babb: The Process Revealed
Through March 26, 2010
This exhibition illustrates the creative process by pairing preparatory drawings with finished paintings. Investigating the role of both the act of drawing and the drawings themselves, it explores the many stages of work that go into the resolved works of art that we typically see in museums and galleries.
Babb has exhibited widely and is well known throughout New England as one of the most talented realist painters working today. The exhibition displays works from three of Babb’s many areas of interest: cityscapes, wilderness landscapes, and figural works. Joel currently has a stunning exhibition of new paintings at Vose Galleries, 238 Newbury Street in Boston that runs through November 21, 2009.
Save the Date
The Museum will be holding a reception for artists and exhibitions on Friday, October 30th from 6-8pm.
Global Lens - through December 4th
Sleepwalking Land
Sunday, October 30 & Sunday, November 1
at 8:00 p.m.
in Olin 105
Song From the Southern Seas
Friday, November 6 & Friday, November 8, at 8:00 p.m.
in Olin 105
Those Three
Friday, November 13 & Sunday, November 15
at 8:00 p.m.
in Olin 105
What a Wonderful World
Friday, December 4 and Sunday, December 6 at 8:00 p.m.
in Olin 105
Margaret's Feast
Friday, December 11 & Sunday, December 13
at 8:00 p.m.
in Olin 105
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Upcoming Events:
Barry Nemett: Artist Talk and book-signing on Tursday, October 29th at 7:00pm in Olin Arts Center, room 104.
Artist Reception: The Museum will be holding a reception for artists and exhibitions on Friday, October 30th from 6-8pm.
Collection Project 4
Museum Interns: Molly Richmond ’10,
Emma Scott ’10, & Annie Svigals ’10
Between January and March 2010, the Museum of Art will exhibit Collection Project 4: Selections from Alumni Collections, in the Museum’s main gallery. This exhibition is part of our ongoing series of exhibitions in which we invite Faculty, Scholars and Students to research aspects of the Museum collection with fresh eyes. Once again, the museum has invited Curatorial Interns from the Department of Art and Visual Culture to research and develop an exhibition from within these significant gifts. Collection Project 4: Selections from Alumni Collections is organized by curatorial interns Molly Richmond ’10, Emma Scott ’10, and Annie Svigals ’10 under the guidance of the Museum’s Curator, Bill Low, and Curator of Education, Anthony Shostak.
Recent Acquisitions
William Manning
“The Last Portrait”
1972, Gift of the Artist
Abe Ajay
“Construction #189"
1989,
gift of
John and Robin Noyes (daughter of the artist) and
Heidi Dickinson (granddaughter of the artist)
Joel Babb
“Study for New England Towers”
2001, gift of the Robert A. and
Minna F. Johnson
Art Acquisition Fund
Gallery picks and suggestions
Maine
“Home Work” at Whitney Art Works in Portland
“Exemplar”
by Alison Cooke Brown
http://www.whitneyartworks.com/Home_Work.shtml
Boston
Joel Babb: Enlightened Perspectives
October 6 - November 21, 2009
Vose Galleries, LLC, Boston
http://www.vosegalleries.com/currex/
Maine Art Museum Trail
Don’t forget as you travel through Maine this fall that the Maine Art Museum Trail offers more than 53,000 works of art from ancient to contemporary in a dazzling array of collections at seven leading art museums including the Bates College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Portland Museum of Art, and University of Maine Museum of Art.
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