Milwaukee Art Museum
Life Captured in Line: 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings through September 18, 2024 Print culture flourished in the North and South Netherlands during the 17th century as the region became the epicenter of printing and publishing in Europe. Artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Van de Velde, and Cornelis de Visscher participated in the influx and exchange of ideas that the industry fostered and created prints in an expansive variety of genres, styles, and techniques. Featuring works drawn from the Museum’s collection, this exhibition builds on themes presented in Art, Life, Legacy: Northern European Paintings in the Collection of Isabel and Alfred Bader, highlighting subjects popular in printmaking at the time, including biblical scenes, landscape, and portraiture. image top right: Jan van de Velde II (Dutch, ca. 1593–1641), A Winter Landscape with Skaters on a Canal, from the series Landscapes, 1616. image right: Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Lutma, Goldsmith, 1656. ALSO ON VIEW
50 Paintings through June 23, 2024 Beyond Heights: Skyscrapers and the Human Experience through September 8, 2024 |
Art Institute of Chicago
Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan through June 3, 2024
Since World War II, women have made influential contributions to the ceramics field in Japan that have not been adequately recognized. This exhibition focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by such artists since 1970—a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements.
Both established and emerging artists with a range of styles are presented together to showcase their collective achievements and impact. Mishima Kimiyo (born 1932), Tsuboi Asuka (born 1932), and Ogawa Machiko (born 1946) began their careers decades ago and continue to produce groundbreaking sculpture that pushes the limits of the clay medium.
Since World War II, women have made influential contributions to the ceramics field in Japan that have not been adequately recognized. This exhibition focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by such artists since 1970—a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements.
Both established and emerging artists with a range of styles are presented together to showcase their collective achievements and impact. Mishima Kimiyo (born 1932), Tsuboi Asuka (born 1932), and Ogawa Machiko (born 1946) began their careers decades ago and continue to produce groundbreaking sculpture that pushes the limits of the clay medium.
ALSO ON VIEW
Threaded Visions: Contemporary Weavings from the Collection through August 26, 2024 |
Saint Louis Art Museum
MATISSE AND THE SEA to May 12, 2024
Matisse and the Sea is the first exhibition to examine the significance of the sea across Modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included artwork in coastal locations on the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. Marine imagery was an important catalyst for Matisse’s artistic experimentation—most notably in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s own iconic painting Bathers with a Turtle.
The exhibition includes imagery ranging from Matisse’s early panoramic marine views in the South of France to his late paper cutouts, representing life beneath the waves, which were inspired by his visit to Tahiti in 1930. It offers an opportunity to explore the artist’s travel across his career as well as the global influences that informed his art, particularly African sculptures and masks.
This exhibit was organized by Simon Kelly, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, with Abigail Yoder, Curatorial Assistant. It is accompanied by a scholarly exhibition catalog.
NOTE: Simon Kelley speak on the topic of this exhibition to the Fine Arts Society of Peoria on December 12, 2024.
Matisse and the Sea is the first exhibition to examine the significance of the sea across Modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included artwork in coastal locations on the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. Marine imagery was an important catalyst for Matisse’s artistic experimentation—most notably in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s own iconic painting Bathers with a Turtle.
The exhibition includes imagery ranging from Matisse’s early panoramic marine views in the South of France to his late paper cutouts, representing life beneath the waves, which were inspired by his visit to Tahiti in 1930. It offers an opportunity to explore the artist’s travel across his career as well as the global influences that informed his art, particularly African sculptures and masks.
This exhibit was organized by Simon Kelly, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, with Abigail Yoder, Curatorial Assistant. It is accompanied by a scholarly exhibition catalog.
NOTE: Simon Kelley speak on the topic of this exhibition to the Fine Arts Society of Peoria on December 12, 2024.
ALSO ON VIEW
Ellsworth Kelly through April 7, 2024
Native American Art of the 20th Century: The William P. Healey Collection through July 14, 2024
Concealed Layers: Uncovering Expressionist Paintings through August 4, 2024
Ellsworth Kelly through April 7, 2024
Native American Art of the 20th Century: The William P. Healey Collection through July 14, 2024
Concealed Layers: Uncovering Expressionist Paintings through August 4, 2024
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Jaroslava Lialia Kuchma: Tapestries.
through Spring 2024
Kuchma’s two large tapestries are connected to her Ukrainian Identity, as well as larger global histories of sovereignty and migration. ZJB celebrates her late husband Zenon Babij and his journey as a child from Europe to Chicago in 1950. The bold, electric lines and colors reflect his outgoing, mutli-lingual personality. Zhuravel, a Ukrainian nickname for the crane, is a symbol of hope and longing for home. Both are recent gifts from the artist.
Jaroslava Lialia Kuchma was born in Ukraine in 1943 and immigrated with her family to the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago in the 1950s. Kuchma is a weaver, photographer, and calligrapher who is active with the Ukrainian National Museum and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.
through Spring 2024
Kuchma’s two large tapestries are connected to her Ukrainian Identity, as well as larger global histories of sovereignty and migration. ZJB celebrates her late husband Zenon Babij and his journey as a child from Europe to Chicago in 1950. The bold, electric lines and colors reflect his outgoing, mutli-lingual personality. Zhuravel, a Ukrainian nickname for the crane, is a symbol of hope and longing for home. Both are recent gifts from the artist.
Jaroslava Lialia Kuchma was born in Ukraine in 1943 and immigrated with her family to the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago in the 1950s. Kuchma is a weaver, photographer, and calligrapher who is active with the Ukrainian National Museum and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.