Current Exhibitions
Under Control Curators: Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox
Michael Bell-Smith Financial intrigue and debacle, government-sponsored spying, preemptive war, and more: an endless stream of news underscores the manipulation of power and resources with consequences for us all. The news headlines that have intrigued and horrified us of late have become, not surprisingly, inspiration for many contemporary artists worldwide. Whether exposing the complexity or folly of conspiracy theory, or analyzing money trails and their surprising beneficiaries, all of the artists in this exhibition are essentially questioning control. Who controls whom? Who controls what? Where does it leave the rest of us? Despite the heavily-politicized subject matter, the exhibition will present an objective point of view on the power of control as a construct within our society. Major funding provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts with additional sponsorship by Office of the Chancellor, U of I; Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, U of I; Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency; Krannert Art Museum Director's Circle; and Krannert Art Museum Council Select programming for this exhibition: October 22 October 29 November 12 Imag(in)ing Life: Guest Curator: Hank Kaczmarski
Installation view, 2009 While Ovid's Metamorphoses might be the first written observation that "Nature in her genius had imitated art," the human eye, alone or with the help of scientific instruments, continues to marvel at nature's imagery. Whether at the scale of the vast expanse of galaxies or the subatomic level, nature, as artist, provides us with an unending body of breathtaking imagery, a truly infinite oeuvre. On Screen: Global Intimacy Curator: Tumelo Mosaka
Alex Hernández-Dueñas This exhibition brings together ten artists from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the United States whose work investigate the transnational reach of globalization. Working primarily in video, they project images that traverse national boundaries, and highlight the confluence of cultures and technologies that mark our time. They call into question facile distinctions between tradition and modernity, resilience and restraint, empowerment and subjugation. Their work plays with time, space, sound, and symbols and examines the conventional definitions of community, placehood, and self-identity. Artists include Tiong Ang, Alex M. Hérnandez Dueñas, Andrew Dosunmu, Achillekà Komguem, Donna Kukama, Keith + Mendi Obadike, Kambui Olujimi, Hank Willis Thomas, and Fatimah Tuggar
Exhibition supported in part by Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts; Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency; Krannert Art Museum Director's Circle; and Krannert Art Museum Counci
Programming for this exhibition: October1 Gestures in Space and Light Curator: Allyson Purpura
Aaron Siskind Gestures in Space and Light features the works of seven prominent American photographers selected from the Krannert Art Museum's extensive photographic collection. Among the artists represented—Aaron Siskind (1903-1992), Brett Weston (1911-1993), Harry Callahan (1912-1999), Nathan Lerner (1913-1997), Joseph Jachna (b. 1935), Alan Cohen (b. 1943) and Michael Johnson (b. 1945), all but Michael Johnson and Brett Weston (son of the renowned photographer Edward Weston) trained or taught at The New Bauhaus School of Design (known later as the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology) founded by László Moholy–Nagy in Chicago in 1937. Together, their photographs epitomize the spirit of experimentation—of exploring the kinetic, sensorial, temporal as well as visual properties of objects, which was the school's pedagogic legacy. Programming for this exhibition: Vivid Lines in Graphic Times Curator: Kathryn Koca Polite
David Wojnarowicz This selection of paintings and works on paper from the museum's permanent collection explores how a diverse range of American artists engaged Pop Art elements—vibrant color, readymade images, graphic line—yet moved beyond the movement's boundaries in form, material, and message. Whether appropriating images from consumerist culture, taking influence from comic books, or simply utilizing graphic techniques in the creative process, these works from the 1970s through the late 1990s specifically illustrate how meaning and feeling may be conveyed through various graphic methods. Programming for this exhibition: Effacement: Guest Curator: Anne Burkus-Chasson
Huang Yan Effacement features both photographs and porcelains produced by the contemporary Chinese artist Huang Yan (b. 1966). Through these works, Huang examines the transnational art market and the perception of Chineseness in this environment. It is an unsettling vision. The artist selected blue and white porcelains, luxurious objects that were once exported from China and collected around the world, and shaped them into ordinary plastic water containers and liquor bottles, items of disposable waste. Programming for this exhibition:
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