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Contemporary Voices: 70th Annual Juried Exhibition
January 23-March 14
Reception: January 23, 5-7pm
From its founding in 1940, Woodmere Art Museum has been a showcase for new talent in the visual arts in the Philadelphia region. The result each year is a rich overview of current trends in art, encompassing the traditional and the avant-garde in all media. This year’s juror is Michael Schantz, Director and CEO of Woodmere Art Museum.
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Kindred Spirits: Woodmere and the Philadelphia Sketch Club
January 23-January 2, 2011
Reception: Saturday, April 3, 5-7pm
Woodmere Art Museum and the Philadelphia Sketch Club have always had an intimate relationship with local artists. As a tribute to the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150th anniversary and to the positive difference it has made to the cultural life of Philadelphia, Woodmere has reached into its treasure trove of art and selected a rich sampling of works produced by members of the Sketch Club. In many cases, the featured artists played important roles in the life of both institutions.
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Art of the Story: Narrative Paintings
January 23-February 21
Narrative paintings tell stories drawn from history, mythology, literature, allegory, and everyday life. Narrative paintings are as old as art itself and often involve complex figurative arrangements that make apparent to the viewer the particular story to be told or virtue to be illustrated. Come see and investigate narrative works from Woodmere’s permanent collection in this modest tribute to some masters of storytelling.
Symbiosis: A Selection of 20th - Century Prints by Philadelphia Artists
Curated by Tony Rosati, Professor and Chair, Printmaking Department, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 6-June 27
Reception: Saturday, April 3, 5-7pm
Woodmere Art Museum’s collection of prints represents a variety of printmaking methods by an array of artists. Symbiosis reveals a diversity of artists and their pluralistic approaches to making prints. The resulting symbiotic relationships among the artists, museums, art schools and colleges produced a fertile, cultured context for Philadelphia printmaking. This exhibition strives to show the historical evolutions and transformations of such enduring, lasting relationships and to celebrate the artists and their prints.
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Shelley Thorstensen
Counterpoint: The Leap from Vision to Print
April 3-July 31
Reception: Saturday, April 3, 5-7pm
Shelly Thorstensen
A Mother’s Heart, 2002
Etching, relief, and screen print, 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in.
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
Purchase, Charles Knox Smith Fund, 2003
Our eyes are tactile organs. We trace form, the feel of what we see; we see and remember. Thorstensen’s work takes an unmediated leap from vision to print. Traditional printmaking - intaglio, lithography and silkscreen - marry seamlessly in layer upon layer, attesting to external and internal reflections, to the duality of body and mind. Ultimately, Thorstensen uses printmaking technology as a tool, not unlike a brush on canvas, to create work that records the splendor around us as well as the uncertainty of our existence.
FOOTPRINT FOR THE FUTURE: VENTURI, SCOTT BROWN & ASSOCIATES
Architectural masterpieces, including Woodmere’s new wing
Helen Millard Children’s Gallery
Stewards of the Earth
Green Woods Charter School
January 10-March 7
Reception: Sunday, January 17, 2-4pm
From budding kindergarten naturalists through 8th grade stewards of the earth, Green Woods Charter School students create art inspired by nature in a variety of media. Green Woods’ core curriculum is in Environmental Studies, using 340 acres of Schuylkill Valley Nature Center land as an outdoor classroom.
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Museum Masterpieces
John Hancock Demonstration School
March 21-May 16
Reception: Sunday, March 21, 2-4pm
The Hancock Museum of Art (HMA) is the creation of the students at Hancock Demonstration School. This exhibit features the miniature artworks that fill the HMA (a converted dollhouse) as well as large, full- size artworks inspired by the great masters – Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Van Gogh, and more.
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