Fall/Winter 2016 Artviews
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Huntsville Museum of Art FALL/WINTER 2016 ARTVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE: What’s Up, Doc? Superheroes have landed! Media icons slated for Voices Series Season & Pick 3 Packages available Get Y Tod ours ay! Museum Board of Directors Chairman: Richard Crunkleton Dear Museum Members, Vice Chairman: Walter (Tod) Dodgen Secretary: Charlie Bonner his summer has been memorable, both for the Treasurer: David Nast Tdiverse exhibitions and high profile programs we Dorothy Davidson Betsy Lowe presented at HMA, as well as the high temperatures Sarah Gessler Virgina Rice Joyce Griffin Herman Stubbs that never seemed to quit. With the presidential Patsy Haws John Wynn election in November, it has been a time of seismic Carole Jones flux in our nation’s social and political environment. Ex-Officio Members Collections Committee: Rosemary Lee What better haven to seek solace than to visit HMA Foundation Board President: Kerry Doran and surround oneself with the beauty of art offered in HMA Guild President: Kathi Tew the 13 galleries at the museum! Foundation Board President: Kerry Doran Carl Bernstein, the legendary journalist of All the Vice President: Blake Mitchell President’s Men fame, will open our Fall/Winter Voices of Our Times series with Secretary: Wendy Johnson John Allen Rosemary Lee The System Can Work: A Legendary Journalist Looks at America’s Government and Heather Baker Darren Malone Media from Watergate to the 21st Century. Speaking in Huntsville five days before Caroline Bentley Dabsey Maxwell the presidential election, I am sure there will be much discussion regarding the Vicki Edwards Todd McBride Patrick Fleming Samantha Nielson race to the White House. Stay tuned! Cara Greco Anne Pollard My friend Leigh Gallagher, Fortune Magazine Assistant Managing Editor, Laurie Heard Sharon Russell Gary Huckaby Cathy Scholl will be at the Museum for a talk and book signing on Saturday, January 21, 2017. Cindy Kamelchuk Dana Town Leigh is also co-chair of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit and speaks Parke Keith Lori Webber regularly at Fortune and other business, economics and thought leadership events. Emeritus: Betty Grisham Leigh is a seasoned business news commentator, appearing regularly on MSNBC’s Ex-Officio Members Collections Committee: Rosemary Lee Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, Face the Nation, CNBC’s Squawk Box and public HMA Guild President-Elect: Julie Andrzejewski radio’s Marketplace. Museum Board: Joyce Griffin and Herman Stubbs My parents purchased the family’s first television in 1969. From then on, Guild Officers President: Kathi Tew each Saturday morning, we got to watch an hour of cartoons. On October 16, President-elect: Julie Andrzejewski What’s Up, Doc will premier at HMA. The show explores the creative genius, Secretary: Kristen Bodeker influences and legacy of Looney Tunes animation director and artist Chuck Jones Corresponding Secretary: Kay Eastin Finance Chair: Stacey Goldmon through 23 animated films and more than 125 original sketches and drawings, Parliamentarian:Amy Henrich storyboards, production backgrounds, animation cels, and photographs. This Verronica Mitchell Staff Liaison: show will bring joy to a generation who grew up with these characters and to Museum Docents Docent Chair: Laurie Noojin others who will see that these cartoons were painstakingly hand-rendered, unlike Co-Chair: Jennifer Wu today’s computer-generated animated characters. Museum Staff As the holidays approach, break out the parkas and sharpen your skates Executive Director: Christopher J. Madkour for the Museum’s annual holiday tradition Skating in the Park. Our outdoor ice Executive Assistant: Verronica Mitchell Director of Curatorial Affairs: Peter J. Baldaia skating rink opens November 18 for six weeks and is brought to you by HMA’s Curator of Exhibitions and Collections: David Reyes Foundation Board, generous corporate and individual sponsors, and the City of Curatorial Assistant: Katherine Purves Director of Education/Museum Academy: Huntsville. Please join the festivities. Laura E. Smith In closing, the board, staff and I are honored Education Associate: Candace Bean Museum Academy Assistant: Amy Thomas to present the exhibition The Way We Were: Director of Communications: Stephanie Kelley, APR American Paintings from the Betsy and Peter Lowe Communications Associate: Wiley Belew Director of Development: Andrea Petroff Collection. You will see from examples in the Development Associate: Brianna Sieja Membership/Development Operations Associate: exhibition pages of this issue, a sampling of Anita Kimbrough their stunning collection of America’s bucolic Accountant: Wendy Worley Accounting Assistants: Tonya Alexander, landscapes and atmospheric seascapes. Betsy and Mary Chavosky Peter have been passionate collectors who are Facility and Event Manager: Lil Parton Facility Rental Assistants: Susan Dana, not only willing to share their fine art collection Hayden Herfurth with the public but are also generous donors in Interim Security Supervisor: Britney Burke Peter and Betsy Lowe Security Guards: Hudson Cornelius, John Crissone, their support of our fine institution. They lead by Jeanne Manley, Steve McCoy, Cyrus Smith, John example and for this, we all benefit. Thank you, Betsy and Peter, for all you do for Solari, Charlie Tolbert, Robert Walker Guest Services Linda Nagle, Wendy Campbell, so many. Emily Alcorn Christopher J. Madkour Museum Store: Rachel Stone Museum Store Coordinator: Janell Zesinger Executive Director Volunteers: Jerry Brown, Billie Muhl, Lynn Nelson, James Shelton, Mary Withington On the cover: Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck (1953). Courtesy of The Chuck Jones Center for Maintenance/Custodian: Rich Krumrie Creativity. Looney Tunes Characters © & TM Warner Bros. 3 Now through December 11, 2016 xperience the escapades of iconic superheroes in this pumped-up collection of art Ecreated by more than 50 international artists. My Hero! Contemporary Art & Superhero Action explores the imaginative ways those artists celebrate and re-envision the lives of our favorite superheroes. The exhibition includes painting, illustration, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and video. “For decades, artists have tapped the world of the superhero, eager to explore the alluring concept of what it means to have an avatar,” Carrie Lederer, curator of exhibitions for the Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts and organizer of the exhibit, said. “We’re captivated by miraculous, superhuman strength, startling bravery, the enthralling adventures, and even their weaknesses.” Bedford Gallery is located in Walnut Creek, California. Cheong-ah Hwang, Captain America, 2010, Mike Alcantara, Spider-Man, 2015, comic book collage, paper, 16 x 12 inches mixed media, 24 x 18 inches Jenny Parks, The Catvengers, 2013, digital print, 12 x 18 inches 5 Film Still, What’s Opera, Doc? (1957). Film still courtesy Warner Bros. Looney Tunes Characters © & TM Warner Bros. xplore the creative genius, “Chuck Jones is one Einfluences and legacy of of the enduring geniuses animation director and artist of American comedy, as Charles Martin “Chuck” accomplished in the art of Jones (1912-2002) at the animation as his hero Mark Huntsville Museum of Art Twain was in literature,” beginning October 16. What’s said David Schwartz, chief Up, Doc? The Animation Art curator of the Museum of of Chuck Jones, a Smithsonian the Moving Image, who traveling exhibition, features October 16, 2016-January 22, 2017 curated the exhibition 23 animated films and more with Barbara Miller, the than 125 original sketches and drawings, storyboards, production museum’s curator of the collection and exhibitions. “His work is backgrounds, animation cels, and photographs. The exhibition, marked by its ability to convey the distinctive personality of his which will be on view through January 22, 2017, is a partnership characters, his endless comic invention and his mastery of timing between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition and visual and verbal humor.” Service (SITES), The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Trained as a fine artist, Jones graduated from the Chouinard Sciences, the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, and the Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1931. By 1933, he was making Museum of the Moving Image. It’s traveling to museums around cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Studio. In a career that the country on a 13-city tour through 2019. spanned seven decades, he created more than 300 animated films Jones brought to life some of the most iconic cartoon and received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. characters in animation history. He perfected the wisecracking After leaving Warner Bros. in 1962, Jones continued to create Bugs Bunny and the exasperated Daffy Duck and created a host award-winning films, including collaborations with author of other characters, including Pepé Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote Theodore Geisel on the classic television specials Horton Hears a and the Road Runner. He brought an unparalleled talent for Who! and Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. comic invention and a flair for creating distinctive, memorable See page 30 for information about informative, What’s Up, characters to the art of film animation. Doc? programs to be held at the Museum. 6 Film still, Robin Hood Daffy (1958). Film still courtesy Warner Bros. Looney Tunes Characters © & TM Warner Bros. Film still, One Froggy Evening (1953). Film still courtesy Warner Bros. Looney Tunes Characters © & TM Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Courtesy of The Chuck Jones Center