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Shana Moulton: Journeys out of the Body April-June 2016 Shana Moulton: Journeys Out of the Body 1 Welcome from the Director Dear MFA Members and Friends, This spring, the MFA’s offerings include a wide array of exhibitions and programs, from old master drawings to finely crafted guitars, from contemporary interpretations of the body to an exploration of time and communication, from illuminating lectures to family yoga and drumming. Please read more in this Mosaic for details about all these opportunities to encounter, explore, and learn about art. As you perhaps already know, I have decided to retire as Director of the Museum. I continue to recover from complications of cardiac surgery and am focusing my attention on health and family. I am delighted that Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator, is serving as Interim Director, and Toni and I will remain active in the life of the Museum. I am proud of the progress the MFA has made since I came to the Museum in 2010. We have presented important, critically acclaimed international, black national, and local exhibitions. We have expanded co-sponsored event and built on our connections with partners in the Sponsored by white region. Our robust public programs and services Pantone: 320 for families and schools are exciting benchmarks of CMYK: 100/0/31/6 excellence for the community. Our extraordinary collection has grown, thanks to the generosity of so many impassioned art lovers and collectors and also thanks to the support and foresight of the Collectors Circle. I’m very pleased that in Board of Trustees 2016 2013 we accomplished what often takes years Executive Committee Mr. Robert L. Hilton — reinstallation of our collection in beautifully Mr. Mark T. Mahaffey, Mrs. Hazel C. Hough renovated galleries. Chairman The Hon. Richard Kriseman, Mrs. Cathy Collins, Vice Mayor of the City of Our staff and trustees, along with The Margaret Chairman St. Petersburg, ex officio, Acheson Stuart Society and our other affiliate Mr. Wayne (Skipp) Fraser, nonvoting groups, have worked together to reach these CPA, Treasurer Mr. Darryl A. LeClair major milestones. It has been my honor to lead the Mr. R. Clark Mason, Ms. Fay Mackey Museum of Fine Arts at this special moment in our Secretary Mrs. Mary Alice McClendon history, and I look forward to the continued success Mrs. Glenn Mosby Mrs. Patti Novack Mr. Fred S. Razook Jr. of this great art institution. Ms. Ellen Stavros Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel Mrs. Carol Russell, and William Hough Chief Sincerely, President, The Margaret Curator and Interim Executive Director, ex Acheson Stuart Society officio, nonvoting Honorary Trustees, Trustees nonvoting Mrs. Erin Smith Aebel Mrs. Isabel Bishop, Honorary Mr. Roy Binger Memorial Trustee On the cover: Ms. Laura Militzer Bryant Mr. Seymour A. Gordon, Esq. Dr. Gordon J. Gilbert Mr. Charles Henderson Shana Moulton (American, born 1976) Still from Whispering Pines (detail) Mr. James R. Gillespie, JD, Mr. Peter Sherman Video LLM Mrs. Carol A. Upham ©Shana Moulton 2 Ms. Moulton (born in 1976) did not take an art course until her junior year at the University of California, Berkeley, concentrating instead on anthropology. Her videos reveal this study, as she, more than many artists, mines the common objects and mass culture around us to fuel her art. She was once included in a group exhibition, Erratic Anthropologies. Noted art critic Brian Droitcour has written that “Moulton gets inspiration from her finds, rather than ‘casting’ them in predetermined storylines. | | CURRENT UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS Objects drive the plot.” Shana Moulton: Journeys While she definitely has a critical eye, Ms. Moulton has opted for a comic persona, whom she ultimately wants to be sympathetic. Out of the Body She has acknowledged that performance art can be deadly serious and she did not Hazel Hough Wing want to fall into that trap. In fact, her live Saturday, June 18- performances can sometimes poke fun at the genre itself. Sunday, October 9 After graduating from Berkeley, Shana Moulton explores our obsession Ms. Moulton earned her MFA from with self-help fads and wellness Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. therapies, as well as consumer culture She has also been an artist-in-residence as a whole. She primarily uses video, at the Skowhegan School of Painting and with her alter ego Cynthia, who never Sculpture in Minnesota, Harvestworks in speaks, as the protagonist. The MFA New York, De Ateliers in Amsterdam, and will feature all 10 installments of The Sommerakademie in Berne. She has her Whispering Pines series, as well shown her work and performed around as other videos, sculpture, and an the world, including in China. Curator of opera/performance piece. Though Contemporary Art Katherine Pill invited Ms. Moulton has received many solo her to do both at the MFA. exhibitions in galleries and has been selected for a wealth of group shows, On Thursday, October 6, Whispering this is her first solo museum project in Pines 10, a one-act live-performance video the United States. opera, will be presented in the Marly Room. Backed by Nick Hallett’s libretto and score, Whispering Pines takes its name from Shana Moulton (American, born 1976) Ms. Moulton will bring Cynthia to life in Still from Whispering Pines the California mobile home park, chiefly this contemporary take on the “mad scene.” comprised of seniors, where the artist Video ©Shana Moulton Watch for more details in the next Mosaic. grew up. Very few children her own age were around, so Ms. Moulton was left to create her own imaginative world. She visited her elderly neighbors and was fascinated with the knickknacks filling their homes. Her Contemplating Character: videos are full of such objects, carefully arranged for the camera, which she views as part of the cast. She also spent a lot of time Drawings & Oil Sketches alone in the large woods next door, which plays an important role in from Jacques-Louis David Cynthia’s fantasies and dreams. to Lucian Freud Television was another major influence. She loved watching soap operas and was drawn to the cult classic, Twin Peaks, created by Hazel Hough Wing Mark Frost and David Lynch of Blue Velvet fame. Only on the air for Through Sunday, May 29 two seasons, Twin Peaks looked at the darker side of small-town life and had supernatural elements and quirky humor. The artist notes that the serial format of Whispering Pines and its production quality are inspired by soap operas — and home movies. Cynthia can be funny, as she deals with her hypochondria and tries yet another “cure.” She often wears a housedress reminiscent of Carol Burnett skits, and the costumes embedded with medical devices, especially a dress with a hemorrhoid pillow, are over-the-top. Some of the best comic actors have an edge, and Shana Moulton as Cynthia reveals deep anxiety in her facial expressions and adventures, which can even have a psychedelic dimension. Like many of us, Cynthia is often overwhelmed by modern life. “It’s me in the bathroom,” she once said. “It’s me worried about aging. It’s me looking at a beauty magazine … We share a brain. I don’t even think of her as a character. It’s just me. Getting into character is just getting into me.” Photo by Bridget Bryson 3 Portraits have divided into themes, which mix eras and styles: self-portraits, captivated portraits of artists, family and friends, fame, drama and humanity imagination, sitter as subject, and repose and endings. throughout time. We love Dr. Jerry N. Smith, Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator to people- and Interim Executive Director, and Dimitri Lykoudis, Senior watch on Preparator, designed the striking installation. The wall colors the street, at encourage reflection. Contemplating Character was organized by concerts, in Mr. Johnson with Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, restaurants California, in association with Denenberg Fine Arts, West — and in Hollywood, California. museums and galleries. We look to faces Christian Marclay: and portraits to reveal Telephones and the deeper personality Sound Holes of the people around us, Helen and Dick Minck Gallery of New Media as well as Through Sunday, May 1 historical figures, Christian Marclay has taken the art world by storm. He represented artists, the United States in the 54th Venice Biennale and won the Golden celebrities, Lion for his 24-hour montage, The Clock (2011). Newsweek has and others named him one of the 10 most important artists working today. captured in paintings, Mr. Marclay likes to deconstruct or take apart images and sound drawings, and and put them back together in surprising, inventive ways. They photographs. become something akin to collages. In Telephones (1995), he Just think combines scenes from 130 Hollywood movies. There are close-ups Lucian Freud (British, born Germany, 1922-2011) of the of phones and phone booths (remember them?) and a host of stars Peter Watson (about 1945) contemporary answering “Hello,” “Who is this?” “What happened?” and the Black crayon on paper obsession like. Telephones moves back and forth between black-and-white, Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson with selfies. Technicolor gloss, and the color film of our time. Contemplating Character: Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis Editing is critical. The scenes are brief, and even though pulled from David to Lucian Freud is the most expansive exhibition of portraits different eras, they flow into each other seamlessly. It is impossible to ever presented at the MFA. It spotlights 152 rare portrait drawings resist the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, and oil sketches from the late eighteenth into the twenty-first Jimmy Stewart, Meg Ryan, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Connery as century, with most from the nineteenth. The works of 127 artists James Bond, and many more, answering a wide array of phones.
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