This exhibition explores the many meanings associated with water through a selection of thirty-two works drawn from the collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Along with a range of interpretations, the works reflect varying approaches to imaging water, from traditional landscape to abstraction.
Spanning a period from the 1920s to the 1990s, these works represent a variety of media, including oils, watercolors, sculpture, photographs and prints. Among the artists represented in the exhibition are William Theo Brown, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, David Taverner Hanson, Joel Meyerowitz, Robert Morris, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Dennis Oppenheim, Gabor Peterdi, Paul Resika, Wayne Thiebaud, Nahum Tschacbasov, and Neil Welliver. Capturing the changing effects of light and color on its surfaces has been an ongoing challenge for artists, as seen in the work of Meyerowitz.
Water has long fascinated visual artists with its reflective and emotive qualities. Its surfaces have been represented as metaphors for contemplation and self-exploration, as Callahan’s photograph of his wife affirms. For other artists such as Brown and Nordfeldt, the experience of water and the culture surrounding it has commanded their interest.Employing abstracted imagery, Caponigro’s and Tschacbasov’s images tap into the meta meanings of water in the natural and human worlds respectively. Hanson moves into the realm of current ecological concerns with his photograph Mine Spoils and Waste Runoff Water. Through its diverse representations and interpretations, Flow reminds viewers what fascinating phenomenon water is, in both physical and symbolic senses.
The exhibition also provides an opportunity to discover the talents of important but less widely known artists as well as to renew old acquaintances among artists whose reputations are well established. Organized by Sheldon Statewide, an outreach program of the Sheldon Museum of Art and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Flow traveled to ten communities in Nebraska during 2007-2008. It is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Sharon L. Kennedy, Collections Curator at the Sheldon.
Her recent projects include Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives, an exhibition of contemporary photography (2008); and a catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting (2009), which has been organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Currently Kennedy is co-authoring a catalogue to accompany the Sheldon exhibition Play’s the Thing: The Paintings and Objects of Jun Kaneko.
Spanning a period from the 1920s to the 1990s, these works represent a variety of media, including oils, watercolors, sculpture, photographs and prints. Among the artists represented in the exhibition are William Theo Brown, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, David Taverner Hanson, Joel Meyerowitz, Robert Morris, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Dennis Oppenheim, Gabor Peterdi, Paul Resika, Wayne Thiebaud, Nahum Tschacbasov, and Neil Welliver. Capturing the changing effects of light and color on its surfaces has been an ongoing challenge for artists, as seen in the work of Meyerowitz.
Water has long fascinated visual artists with its reflective and emotive qualities. Its surfaces have been represented as metaphors for contemplation and self-exploration, as Callahan’s photograph of his wife affirms. For other artists such as Brown and Nordfeldt, the experience of water and the culture surrounding it has commanded their interest.Employing abstracted imagery, Caponigro’s and Tschacbasov’s images tap into the meta meanings of water in the natural and human worlds respectively. Hanson moves into the realm of current ecological concerns with his photograph Mine Spoils and Waste Runoff Water. Through its diverse representations and interpretations, Flow reminds viewers what fascinating phenomenon water is, in both physical and symbolic senses.
The exhibition also provides an opportunity to discover the talents of important but less widely known artists as well as to renew old acquaintances among artists whose reputations are well established. Organized by Sheldon Statewide, an outreach program of the Sheldon Museum of Art and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Flow traveled to ten communities in Nebraska during 2007-2008. It is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Sharon L. Kennedy, Collections Curator at the Sheldon.
Her recent projects include Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives, an exhibition of contemporary photography (2008); and a catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting (2009), which has been organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Currently Kennedy is co-authoring a catalogue to accompany the Sheldon exhibition Play’s the Thing: The Paintings and Objects of Jun Kaneko.
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