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The Mcnay Art Museum Impressions Newsletter September December 2017 IMPRESSIONS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Tom Frost Chairman Toby Calvert President Barbie O'Connor Vice President Lucille Oppenheimer Travis Secretary Kirk Safell Treasurer John W. Feik Don Frost From the Director Walton Vandiver Gregory Sarah E. Harte Harmon W. Kelley, MD John C. Kerr Shon J. Manasco J. David Oppenheimer This fall, the McNay celebrates the power of the visual arts to enlighten and transform communities Brad Parman in San Antonio and across the globe. Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too captures the Alamo Carolyn Jeffers Paterson City’s rich history and heritage through portraits of everyday objects: produce, purses, and piñatas. Harriett Romo, PhD George F. Schroeder His poignant photographs speak to local beauty, identity, even mortality. In San Antonio, Chuck Amy Stieren Smiley helped friends and fans make sense of our city and find their very special place within it. Chuck was not alone. Art’s ability to engender empathy—the power to see, feel, and better understand the world around us through an artist’s creative expression—is also the focus of two global exhibitions at the McNay: Across Borders: Crosscurrents in American Art and Transnational: Migration, Memory, Home. Thanks to a remarkable roster of international modern and contemporary Opposite page: masters, we experience Elizabeth Catlett’s Mexico City; José Clemente Orozco’s Harlem; and Antonio Martorell’s New York City and Ponce, Puerto Rico. And thanks to the exhibition Behind the Screen: Chuck Ramirez, Courtesy Artpace, San Antonio, Texas Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, we are immersed in Burton’s brilliant imagination. Honoré Daumier, Rue These visionaries defined artistic excellence in their communities—many continue to define it there Transnonain (detail), 1834. today—but artists have been effecting change for centuries, as seen in our graphic arts presentation Lithograph. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Art & Activism: Political Prints by Goya, Orozco, and Shahn. Friends of the McNay. This season, the McNay also welcomes three new members to the Museum’s leadership team: Gunther Gerzso, Na Bolom (detail), 1993. Aquatint. Dianna Hopkins, Head of Development; Terry McDevitt, Head of Communications and Marketing; Collection of the McNay Art and Heather Ryniker, Head of Museum, Gift Harriett and Ricardo Romo. Finance. Together with our Tim Burton, Lock, Shock, entire dedicated staff and and Barrel in the Armory (or devoted Trustees, we will Clubhouse) from The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993. Painted continue making sense of this wood, metal, plastic, paper, and modern, hyperkinetic, global styrofoam, with fabric and found society through the lens of the objects. Collection of the McNay Art Museum. Gift of Robert L. B. world’s great masters. Tobin. © Disney © Tim Burton Georges Wakhévitch, Scene design for El Amor Brujo (Bewitched Love), ca. 1954. Watecolor, ink, and graphite on board. Collection of the McNay Art Museum. Gift of The Tobin Endowment. Richard Aste Director Richard Aste, Director, and Toby Calvert, President of the Board of Trustees McNay Art Museum 6000 North New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209 210.824.5368 phone mcnayart.org The McNay Art Museum engages a diverse community in the discovery and enjoyment of the visual arts. EMERITUS TRUSTEES Curt Anastasio Laura Bertetti Baucum Chuck Ramirez Steve Blank J. Bruce Bugg Jr. All This and Heaven Too ................................................................. 4 Jonathan C. Calvert Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD Barbara Seale Condos E. H. Corrigan Raye B. Foster Betty Murray Halff Marie M. Halff Joan Buzzini Hurd Jane Stieren Lacy Peggy Pitman Mays Art & Activism Bill McCartney Political Prints by Goya, Orozco, and Shahn .......................... 6 Charline McCombs Connie McCombs McNab Allan G. Paterson Jr. Ethel Thomson Runion Thomas R. Semmes Alice C. Simkins Joe Westheimer HONORARY TRUSTEE Across Borders Mrs. Nancy B. Negley Crosscurrents in American Art .................................................... 6 HOURS Su Noon–5 pm M Closed Tu 10 am–4 pm W 10 am–4 pm Behind the Screen Th 10 am–9 pm ....................... 7 F 10 am–4 pm Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Sa 10 am–5 pm Closed New Year’s Day, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. During Daylight Saving Time, grounds are open 7 am–7 pm. During Standard Time, grounds Stage Frights are open 7 am–6 pm. Madness, Monsters, Mayhem ...................................................... 7 ADMISSION During Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too, September 14, Rashaad Newsome: KNOT . .8 . 2017–January. .14, . 2018:. McNay Members FREE Transnational: Migration, Memory, Home. 8 Children 12 and under FREE Collection Focus: Pablo Picasso’s Woman with a Plumed Hat. 9 Teens FREE Adults $20 All-in for Education . .10 . Students. with. .I.D. $15 Seniors (65+) $15 A Safe, Bully-free Zone!. 12 Active Military $15 Transforming the Community with Your Support. 13 Admission price includes entrance to Main Collection Gifts . .14 . Galleries. .and . .Chuck . Ramirez.. On H-E-B Thursday Nights (4−9 pm) and First Sundays of the Month, entrance to Main Picasso Goes A Bully-free Your Support Collection Galleries is FREE. FREE FIRST SUNDAYS is made to Spain Zone! Transforms Lives possible by generous support from Dickson-Allen Foundation. FREE admission for teens 19 and under provided by the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation of the San Antonio page 9 page 12 page 13 Area Foundation. 3 September 14, 2017 | January 14, 2018 At the time of his death in 2010 in a bicycling accident, the art of nine decorated Christmas trees created for his friend and fellow San Antonio’s Chuck Ramirez was making an international impact. artist Linda Pace. Of particular significance is the re-creation of After years of working in commercial design for the brands of Ramirez’s 2002 Artpace residency exhibition, Bean & Cheese—a the H-E-B supermarket company, Ramirez established an artistic precise replication of the size of Artpace’s gallery, with the works practice that allowed him to focus on and develop many series installed just as they appeared there 15 years ago. It reimagines a of photographs on various themes. Most of these photographs milestone in the artist’s development, and offers new generations present familiar, everyday objects—hospital flower arrangements, of viewers insight into Ramirez’s more youthful efforts. open women’s purses, jam-packed trash bags—clearly captured in great detail against a white void. Some of these objects are This exhibition is organized by the McNay Art Museum. Lead funding for Chuck Ramirez: stand-ins that serve as portraits of those in Ramirez’s wide circle All This and Heaven Too is most generously given by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation of social and professional friends and acquaintances; others are Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Rick Liberto; symbols for consumption, transience, and mortality. Regardless Linda Pace Foundation; Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation; Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation; and Carolyn and Allan Paterson. of subject, Ramirez’s images are devoid of human inhabitants, yet Additional support is provided by Chris Cheever; Mitcham Partners, LLP; Smothers filled with a deep and palpable humanity. Foundation; Patricia and Charles Marcus; Patricia and Juan Ruiz-Healy; Katy and Ted Flato; Christopher C. Hill; Penelope Speier and Sonny Collins; the Director’s Circle; and This exhibition is the first to present a comprehensive view of Exhibition Sponsors. Chuck Ramirez’s art. The McNay’s survey includes not only the Above: Chuck Ramirez, Dia de los Muertos, 2003. Seven Days series. Digital print. Courtesy crisp photographs of single objects on white backgrounds for Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas © Estate of Chuck Ramirez. which Ramirez is particularly well known, but also his early, more Adjacent: Chuck Ramirez, Louis (Linda) (detail), 2005. Purse Portraits series. Digital print. Courtesy Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas © Estate of Chuck Ramirez. personal imagery; examples of video and installation work; and FOTOSEPTIEMBREUSA EXHIBITION CATALOGUE AVAILABLE IN THE MUSEUM STORE The accompanying publication Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too places Ramirez’s art within the broader context of contemporary photography through two essays. Curator and San Antonio native Edward Hayes surveys Ramirez’s art as filtered through his biography and personal narrative. Writer and curator Elizabeth Ferrer discusses Ramirez in the context of Latino art. McNay Head of Curatorial Affairs, René Paul Barilleaux enhances the publication with additional insights. McNay Members $22.50 | nonmembers $25 4 5 September 14, 2017 | January 14, 2018 October 26 | December 24, 2017 Art & Activism Across Borders Political Prints by Goya, Crosscurrents in American Art Orozco, and Shahn A phrase often heard throughout Latin America is Somos todos Americanos: “We are all Americans.” It points This exhibition highlighting the work of some of to the fact that whether we are citizens of the United the most significant activist printmakers features the States, Mexico, or Brazil, we all live on the American epitome of socially aware printmaking: a selection continents. This fact gained great importance in the art from Francisco Goya’s series Los desastres de la Guerra world of Mexico in the first few decades after the Mexican (Disasters
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