More American 20th-21st Century Representational Art From Other websites, Not Yet Classified

American 20th-21st Century Representational Art

More American 20th-21st Century Representational Art From Other Websites,

Not Yet Classified

(above: Albert R. Valentien, Eschscholzia Californica (California Poppy, CA State flower), early 1900s, watercolor, San Diego Natural History Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

The Autonomous Future of Mobility is an online exhibit at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis which says: "The Autonomous Future of Mobility examines the car's legacy over the past century, predominantly in the United States, as depicted in art and visual culture. The works included in this exhibition are organized around six themes that address vehicular culture, signs, space, energy, speed, and autonomy, offering a view toward today's emerging technological developments and exposing our vulnerability in the face of the horsepower and political power that drive mass movement." Accessed 10/23

Curiosity: From the Faraway Nearby, an exhibit held Saturday, October 27, 2012 - Sunday, January 27, 2013 at the Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico. Includes essay by Jina Brenneman, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions. Accessed January, 2015.

Day Jobs is a 2023 exhibit at the Blanton Museum of Art which says: "Day Jobs, the first major exhibition to examine the overlooked impact of day jobs on the visual arts, is dedicated to demystifying artistic production and upending the stubborn myth of the artist sequestered in their studio, waiting for inspiration to strike. The exhibition will make clear that much of what has determined the course of modern and contemporary art history are unexpected moments spurred by pragmatic choices rather than dramatic epiphanies." Accessed 4/23

Everlasting Plastics is a 2024 exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art which says: "Through site-specific commissions by five artists, architects, and designers from the United States-Xavi L. Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager -- Everlasting Plastics considers the ways these materials both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment." Accessed 6/24

Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art is a 2022 exhibit at the Brandywine Museum of Art which says: "Spanning two galleries, the exhibition includes striking works reflecting on the vulnerability of the environment, created in a variety of media by Angus, Dion, Mattison and Prosek. The Brandywine's presentation of Fragile Earth also includes a site-specific installation by Angus and a commissioned mural by Prosek that explores the plants and animals native to the Brandywine Valley. Accessed 12/22

Go is a 2017 exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago which says: "Through paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, designed objects, textiles, books, and films, Go reveals not only how speed has been celebrated but also how it has been managed and resisted. Thus, as a title, Go summons both the initiation of movement -- a launch -- and a kind of ongoingness." Accessed 3/17

Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica is a 2024 exhibit at the Fairfield University Art Museum which says: "Inspired and informed by her experiences, Walking in Antarctica is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together photography, sculpture, and audio narrative to take the viewer on a journey through an extraordinary environment of remote places that the tourist ships do not reach and few people get to witness in person. The exhibition is organized as a series of "walks" through remarkable Antarctic landscapes: over frozen lakes, around towering glaciers and baroque sea ice formations, into a magnificent frozen ice cave, across fields of surreal-looking boulders, and through a lively colony of nesting Adélie penguins. Visitors to the exhibition who have smartphones will be able to access an audio tour narrated by Glazer, drawn from a blog in which she recorded her experiences." Accessed 6/24

In Pursuit of Strangeness: Wyeth and Westermann in Dialogue is a 2013 exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum which says: "Dating from the early twentieth century to the present, the works on view exemplify the complexities of our relationship to home and place through unsettling perspectives and unusual materials, subverting the understanding of home as familiar (heimlich) and transforming it into something foreign (unheimlich). The exhibition also investigates the difference between a house and a home, as well as how homes become extensions of their inhabitants. In addition to Wyeth and Westermann, other artists in the show include Ralph Gibson, Marilyn Anne Levine, Bruce Nauman, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White, among others." Accessed 1/22

Jack Boul: Perceptual Painting is a 2024 exhibit at the American University Museum which says: "While Boul is justly famed for his etchings and monoprints, this exhibition concentrates on his accomplishments as a painter and on his influence as a teacher. Boul focused on capturing the essence of his subjects using basic shapes, light and dark values, and color, rather than detailed accuracy. As a teacher, he advocated the importance of overlooking small details in favor of interpreting in paint the people, places, and things as they appear to the eye. He was able to move beyond mere appearances to capture profound, poetic truths in his art." Accessed 9/24

Julia Dixon: Memento Mori is a 2022 exhibit at the Berkshire Museum. The artist says: "My current painting series, Memento Mori, depicts individuals in arresting scenes in order to confront viewers about time and impermanence. These paintings, as well as smaller oil and watercolor studies of skulls, insects, flowers, and other symbolic objects, are meditations on the inevitability of death while, at the same time, affirmations of the beauty and tenderness of life." Accessed 6/22

Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West is a 2021 exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum which says: "Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West explores the evolution of the art of mining, with works from the 1910s through today that depict regional landscapes of enterprise and examine how mining has altered the natural environment on a spectacular scale." Accessed 2/22

Made for Market is a 2024 digital exhibit at the Asheville Art Museum which says: "By learning more about the artist and the story behind their art, one gains insight into the various markets in which the artwork was sold." Accessed 6/24

Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art is a 2020 exhibit at the American University Museum which says: "The exhibition is a survey of contemporary works of art that deal with death. Paintings, sculptures, and photographs remind us that it is inescapable. Skulls predominate, triumphing over life, sometimes symbolized by fruit, books, and flowers as in usual Vanitas works." See online exhibition catalog. Accessed 1//21

Murder, She Said is a 2016-17 exhibit at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, which says: "This exhibition will explore why murder is so often a source of fascination frequently inflected by irony and wry humor in the visual /arts today....The appeal of murder itself, as reflected in art and literature, is in some ways easy to understand. Artworks can provide us the vicarious satisfaction of dispatching our enemies - and thus of controlling death, the very eventuality that, in real life, implacably haunts, defies, and defeats us." Accessed 12/21

Serial Intent is a 2017 exhibit at the Akron Art Museum which says: "With Pop Art prints, dramatic photographic series, evocative narratives, and more, the Akron Art Museum's exhibition Serial Intent offers visitors the rare opportunity to experience multi-part artwork within the serial contexts intended by the artists who created them." Also see news release Accessed 8/17

Stan Vosburg: Homefront Aviation Art is a 2019 exhibit at The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University. Mary Platt, Curator, says: "His engineering work which included being a member of the team that designed and installed the tiles of the Space Shuttle's thermal protection system -- instilled in Vosburg an attention to the details of how mechanical elements look and work. And then he became one of those almost-mythical creatures, a late-bloomer artist who can actually paint, and paint well. To relieve job stress, he took a series of painting classes at Fullerton College from instructor Bob Egan, and joined the American Society of Aviation Artists. He sought a way to mesh his love of aviation and aeronautical history with his newly rediscovered love and talent for art." Accessed 8/23

Wit, Humor, and Satire is a 2022 exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum which says: "A new exhibition at Albuquerque Museum reveals how humor, wit, and satire function as tools to make us laugh, shine a light on society and human behaviors, and serve as mechanisms for survival." Accessed 9/22

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(above: Elihu Vedder, Fisherman and Mermaid, c. 1888-89, oil on canvas, Harvard Art Museums. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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