Future
Exhibitions
American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print
August 12 - October 11, 2009
American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print celebrates a time-honored graphic art tradition through the work of Nashville's Hatch Show Print, one of the nation's oldest and continuously printing shops.
Organized by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions Service (SITES), the show highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs, and stock car races to the Grande Ole Opry, Elvis Presley, and Herbie Hancock.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America
October 21 - December 23, 2009
An exhibition of drawing, printmaking, painting, and mixed-media installation, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America examines American Indian life in contrast to the consumerism of contemporary society. Her work is centered by her political activism and strong American Indian spirituality.
Born in 1940 on the Flathead Reservation in Montana to Flathead Salish, French-Cree, and Shoshone parents, Quick-to-See Smith became an artist while in her 30s.
Since then, she has developed a distinctive modernist style and received international critical acclaim.
Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works from Cuba
January 16 - March 4, 2010
Developed by the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works from Cuba attests to the concepts and aesthetics characterizing Cuban art today.
The show features more than 50 works of painting, drawing, sculpture, video, photography, and installation art by 27 Cuban artists, among them René Peña, Abel Barroso, Aimeé García, Yoan Capote, and Roberto Fabelo. As part of the exhibition, the gallery will collaborate with the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Latin American Library at Tulane University, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Cuban and Carribean Studies, and the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery to present a series of educational programs and ancillary exhibitions on Cuban arts and culture.
Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper
March 31 - June 27, 2010
A comprehensive survey of Joan Mitchell’s works on paper over a 36-year period, this show explores her evolution as an abstract expressionist and her emphatic use of line, color, and light.
The exhibition, organized by New York’s Cheim & Read Gallery in cooperation with the Joan Mitchell Foundation, focuses on the artist’s bold work in pastel but also includes examples of other media including watercolor, paint, pencil, gouache, and ink. Tulane Associate Professor of Art History Michael D. Plante will serve as an advisor for the show.
images (top to bottom): Johnny Cash window card,
created from 1960s era Hatch
photoplate, 1996. Image courtesy Smithsonian Institution; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Which Comes First?, 2004, mixed media on canvas ; Rene Pena, Sin titulo, from the series Untitled Album, 2007, digital photograph; Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), PASTEL, 1991, pastel on paper, 48 x 31 1/2 in. © Estate of Joan Mitchell. Courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
