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The Season Ahead at the University of Chicago's Contact C.J. Lind | 773.702.0176 | [email protected] For Fall Calendars THE SEASON AHEAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO’S SMART MUSEUM OF ART Highlights include: Expressionist Impulses, new large-scale installation by Jessica Stockholder, reinstalled collection galleries, and Monster Roster The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art will reopen on September 12, 2015 with freshly reinstalled collection galleries—the first annual reinstallation—and a “monster roster” of major exhibitions and collaborative projects slated throughout the academic year. The season launches with Smart Fest, a free family-friendly opening celebration on Saturday, September 12, from 1–4 pm. Calendar of exhibitions and special projects For a current list of all upcoming exhibitions, visit smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions Jessica Stockholder: Rose’s Inclination September 12, 2015–July 2, 2017 Opening Reception: Smart Fest, Saturday, September 12, 1–4 pm In a site-specific installation, Jessica Stockholder transforms the Smart’s threshold with a wave of color and texture that climbs to the clerestory, cuts across the lobby floor, and travels outwards into the sculpture garden. Rose’s Inclination makes use of ordinary and found materials—thrift store lamps, paint, Plexiglas, carpet, mulch, and even a remnant of a wall painting by Judy Ledgerwood—to “reach up and out” and vibrantly alter the physical experience of the Smart Museum’s modernist architecture. Stockholder is Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and is perhaps best known in the city for Color Jam (2012), which took over a busy intersection in the Loop. This program is presented in affiliation with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Learn more at chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org. Presented in the Eunice Ratner Reception Gallery and Vera and A. D. Elden Sculpture Garden Reinstalled Collection Galleries September 12, 2015–July 10, 2015 Opening Reception: Smart Fest, Saturday, September 12, 1–4 pm After a year filled with celebrations and special initiatives to mark its 40th anniversary, the Smart has made a commitment to reinstall its permanent collection annually and to work with scholars and students from across the University to experiment with the ways the collection can open dialogue, inspire curiosity, and foster personal experiences with great works of art. Highlights of the reinstalled collection galleries include newly acquired paintings by Paul Delvaux, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland on view for the first time; old favorites like Mark Rothko’s No. 2 (1962) and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House furniture presented in new contexts; and experimental presentations that introduce multiple voices and encourage close looking. Presented in the Elisabeth and William M. Landes Gallery, Janis Kanter and Thomas McCormick Gallery, Edward A. and Inge Maser Gallery, and Robert and Joan Feitler Gallery Conversations with the Collection: Memory September 12, 2015–January 10, 2016 As the University of Chicago reflects upon its 125-year history, the Smart presents an experimental installation on the theme of “Memory” that explores art’s relationship to the recollection of personal and cultural histories, nostalgia, and other facets of memory. The collection-based project mixes works from across cultures and eras, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to Antony Gormley’s Infinite Cube (2014). Presented as part of the University of Chicago’s 125th anniversary. Learn more at 125.uchicago.edu. Presented in the Robert and Joan Feitler Gallery Expressionist Impulses: German and Central European Art, 1890–1990 October 1, 2015–January 10, 2016 Opening reception: Wednesday, September 30, 7:30–9 pm Spanning a century of momentous and rapid political, social, and economic change, this exhibition charts the ebb and flow of Expressionist tendencies in German and Central European art. The incisive, emotionally charged paintings, drawings, and sculptures on view—drawn from the Smart’s collection and supplemented by select promised gifts—bear powerful witness to periods of war, utopian dreams, economic depression, political division, and personal and political exile. Artists: Josef Albers, Lovis Corinth, Max Dungert, Lyonel Feininger, Emil Filla, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Hans Hofmann, Jörg Immendorff, Wassily Kandinsky, Martin Kippenberger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Karel Malich, Jan Matulka, Ludwig Meidner, Gabriele Münter, Richard Oelze, Emil Nolde, Felix Nussbaum, Max Pechstein, Karl Peter Röhl, and Kurt Schwitters, among others. Support for this exhibition and its programming has been provided in part by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture. Presented in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Gallery Expressionist, New Objectivity, and Constructivist Prints, 1905–1925: Recent Acquisitions October 1, 2015–January 10, 2016 In conjunction with Expressionist Impulses, the Smart presents a selection of recently acquired prints by the Austrian, German, and Hungarian masters Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Alfred Kubin, László Moholy-Nagy, Emil Nolde, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Presented in the Elisabeth and William M. Landes Gallery To See in Black and White: German and Central European Photography, 1920–1950 October 1, 2015–January 10, 2016 This collection-based companion exhibition to Expressionist Impulses offers a selection German and Central European photography by Walter Peterhans, Hannah Höch, František Drtikol, Jaromír Funke, and others. Presented in the Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago February 11–June 12, 2016 Opening reception: Wednesday, February 10, 7:30–9 pm Spearheaded by Leon Golub, the group of artists nicknamed the Monster Roster established the first unique Chicago style in the 1950s. This is the first major exhibition to examine the history and impact of the group, which has been overlooked despite being one of the most important Midwestern contributions to the development of American art. Artists: Robert Barnes, Don Baum, Fred Berger, Cosmo Campoli, George Cohen, Dominick Di Meo, Leon Golub, Theodore Halkin, June Leaf, Arthur Lerner, Irving Petlin, Seymour Rosofsky, Franz Schulze, Nancy Spero, Evelyn Statsinger, and H. C. Westermann. The exhibition and catalogue have been made possible in part by the Terra Foundation for American Art and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by Ulrich E. and Harriet H. Meyer. Presented in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Gallery and Robert and Joan Feitler Gallery ### About the Smart Museum of Art The Smart Museum of Art is an intimate museum for bold encounters with art. Both fueling and expressing the creative energy of the University of Chicago, the Smart opens the world to boundary- breaking art and ideas through innovative special exhibitions, dynamic programs, and distinctive collections. Mission The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago opens the world through art and ideas. Smart Museum of Art Summer Hours The University of Chicago Galleries closed June 22–September 11, 2015 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Café and Shop open Mon–Fri 8:30 am–3 pm and Sat–Sun 11 am–3 pm 773.702.0200 smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Regular Hours (resume September 12, 2015) [email protected] Tuesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Thursday evenings until 8 p.m. facebook.com/smartmuseum @SmartUChicago Galleries are closed Mondays and holidays. The Smart is open to all and admission is always free .
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