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The Family Stage: Photographs by Janet Delaney, Todd Hido
and Cecil McDonald, Jr.
September 24 - November 15, 2009
Reception: Thursday, September 24, 5 - 8 pm
“The Family Stage” is an exhibition of photographs depicting family life from multiple perspectives. The show immerses the viewer in the complexities of family dynamics, the simplicity of humdrum objects, and the sometimes turbulent, often sublime rhythms of home. Janet Delaney’s “Housebound” captures what she terms “simple scenarios of home and family” that are icons for the complexities of growing up and growing old. Delaney lives in Berkeley, CA, where she teaches photography at the University of California. Todd Hido’s “Ohio” presents a compelling, often unsettling, Instamatic narrative that hovers between fact and fiction. Hido now lives in Oakland, CA; his work is shown courtesy of the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco. “Domestic Observations and Occurrences” by Cecil McDonald, Jr. eschews the singular object or person for performative retellings of family life, from the mundane to the dramatic. McDonald is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago. A survey of family “snapshot” albums will show how the presentation and preservation of family photographs has evolved, from early 20th century bound volumes to today’s digital frame.
THE FAMILY STAGE is organized by Rupert Jenkins, Roddy MacInnes, and Charlie Roderick.
SOUTH GALLERY:
John Edward Thompson - Colorado Modernist
Nov. 12, 2009–Jan. 17, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, Nov. 12, 5–8pm
It also highlights the ongoing restoration of an important mural by Thompson on the DU campus, rediscovered more than 70 years after it was painted over in 1931. His 350 square foot Shakespeare-themed mural in Margery Reed Hall, which was finished in 1929 and painted over in 1931, was largely forgotten until its rediscovery in 2007. It is now being restored with the participation of SAAH students enrolled in the pre-conservation Bachelor of Fine Arts program.
Thompson’s influence on Colorado art was felt soon after he moved to Denver in 1917. Modernist works by Thompson and his followers incited heated debates about modern art in the newspapers of the time after they were included in a 1919 exhibition at the Denver Public Library. In the early 1920s, Thompson became a founding faculty member of the Chappell House School. When DU acquired the School in 1929 Thompson, along with most of its faculty, transferred to the University’s School of Art (now SAAH). He remains one of Colorado’s best-known and most avidly collected painters.
Please note that for most of the calendar year, the Gallery will be split into two adjoining exhibition spaces, listed here as North Gallery and South Gallery. Shows will be staggered with separate opening receptions for each space. (Gallery closed Dec. 19–Jan. 3)
NORTH GALLERY: Cliff Evans - "Citizen." Three channel HD video installation
Jan. 7–Feb. 21, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, Jan. 7, 5–8pm
Using recognizable images and personalities culled from the internet, Evans creates a spectacular, eye popping multi-panel collage.
SOUTH GALLERY: Contemporary Art from the Sarah and Jim Taylor Collection
Feb. 11–March 7, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, April 1, 5–8pm
NORTH GALLERY: Faculty Collects
April 1–April 25, 2010 Opening reception: Thursday, April 1, 5–8pm
SOUTH GALLERY: American Master Watercolors from the Jan Perry Mayer Collection
April 1–April 25, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, Feb. 11, 5–8pm
2010 BFA Exhibition
May 13–June 5, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, May 13, 5–8pm
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