MEMORIAL ART GALLERY BIEnniaL REPort 2004–2006 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER INAUGURATION OF PubLication ItaLian BaroQUE OF amErican Organ PAGE 1 cataLog PAGE 2 DIRECTOR’S TWEntiEth PAGE 1 STATISTICS FOR THE YEARS PAGE 2 EXhibitions PAGE 3 Programs anD EVEnts PAGE 5 giFts OF art PAGE 7 Donors, MEmbErs anD FriENDS PAGE 8 FinanciaL summary PAGE 14 boarD anD staFF BACK COVER EXTREME MATERIALS This 2006 EXhibition organiZED by thE MEmoriaL Art GALLEry shoWcasED non-traDitionaL WorKS by 35 nationaL anD intErnationaL artists. IN thE untitLED WorK abovE (DEtaiL shoWN), Washington, DC artist Dan STEinhiLBER turnED munDanE, mass-ProDucED DucK saucE PacKEts into A BEautiFUL, surPrisingLY SEnsuous WorK OF art. A E C B D F The Years in Review A Extreme Materials, organized by the C Summer 2005 saw the arrival at MAG E In May 2006, Grant Holcomb (arms Memorial Art Gallery, was the surprise hit of of the only full-size antique Italian organ in folded) arrives for a surprise celebration of the 2005-06 season. Over the show’s two- North America. The Baroque instrument, his 20th year as Gallery director. Surrounding month run, more than 27,000 people came from the collection of the Eastman School him are (from left) MAG Board president to see art created from such unorthodox sub- of Music, was permanently installed in the Stan Konopko, UR president Joel Seligman, stances as garden hoses, pencil shavings, fish Herdle Fountain Court, where it is surrounded Board member Friederike Seligman, daughter skins, carrots, rubber tires, eggshells, smog— by Baroque masterworks. Shown above is Devon Holcomb and son Greg Holcomb. even a 1960 Cadillac (above). the organ’s inaugural concert—a gala perfor- mance of Monteverdi’s Vespers. F As it approached its mid-century, B Family Days were a chance for all Clothesline still reigned as Rochester’s oldest ages to learn about cultures and religions D Opening in July 2004, the first Rochester and largest arts and crafts festival—and around the world. In 2004–06, the long- Biennial reaffirmed the Gallery’s longstanding MAG’s biggest fund-raiser. The 48th Festival, running series included celebrations of Black commitment to contemporary regional art. in September 2004, attacted 30,000 visitors; history, Hispanic heritage and Asian Pacific The new exhibition, featuring work by six the 49th, 25,000. Both years, M&T Bank American heritage. All featured music and invited artists, now alternates summers with the continued its longstanding support. dance, cultural displays, storytelling and venerable Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition. hands-on art activities such as Japanese Among the featured works was Judith Olson calligraphy (shown). Gregory’s haunting installation Grace. Photos by Richard P. Wersinger (A, F), Gary Graham (B), Joe Blackburn (C), James M. Via (D), Brandon Vick (E, J), Annette Dragon (G) and Matthew Guarnera (I). 5,835 individual and corporate members as of 6/30/06 470,201 visitors welcomed ’04–05: 228,281 ’05–06: 241,920 G 41,610 I schoolchildren and adults toured the Gallery ’04–05: 19,991 ’05–06: 21,619 105,763 * hours contributed by ’04–05: 1,331 volunteers ’05–06: 1,416 volunteers * Please note that beginning in 2005–06 H J the Gallery implemented a new, formula- based system for calculating volunteer hours. $47,239,320 value of endowment 2004-2006 as of 6/30/06 (unaudited) G An unusual partnership with the University I At the Creative Workshop, more than of Rochester resulted in an ongoing program 3,000 adults, children and teens a year titled “The Art of Observation.” Designed by choose from some 350 courses. Above, MAG director of education Susan Daiss and visitors to the Workshop’s December 2004 Stephanie Brown Clark, an MD-PhD, the Open House watched a demonstration by program helps URMC medical students learn ceramics instructor Shelly Green Stoler. to read visual cues by close examination of works of art. And the program continues to J Tony Award-winning choreographer grow: above, Daiss leads a special session for Garth Fagan brought his dancers to MAG new business students from the Simon School. in November 2004. The lecture-performance was one of many programs celebrating H Summer 2006 saw the publication of the The Walter O. Evans Collection of African first-ever catalog of the Gallery’s American American Art, a major traveling exhibition. collection. In the words of MAG chief cura- tor and editor-in-chief Marjorie Searl, Seeing America is “a tour that ranges from Colonial times to the 21st century, …from mighty his- torical subjects to intimate byways.” On the cover: George Harvey’s 1837 painting Pittsford on the Erie Canal (Gifts of Art, p. 7). 2 Among the works in The Walter O. In the Gill Center, In spring 2005, the Lockhart Gallery featured The Wings Will Grow (1999), Evans Collection was The Reader Protected for Eternity Japanese prints from the Gallery’s permanent by Russian-born artists (1939), by Harlem Renaissance showcased a rare pair collection. Shown is a detail from Evening Bell at Vitaly Komar and Alexander artist William H. Johnson. of 2,000-year-old Sanyenzan (ca. 1839–42), by Ando Hiroshige. Melamid, was part of nesting coffins. The View From Here. Exhibitions GRAND GALLERY Extreme Materials January 29–April 9, 2006 First Rochester Biennial Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery. Underwritten by Richard July 11–September 5, 2004 F. Brush, with additional support from Breckenridge Kling and Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery and sponsored by the Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation. The Rochester Group. Second Rochester Biennial The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art July 18–September 10, 2006 October 10, 2004–January 9, 2005 Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery and sponsored by Organized by the Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and The Rochester Group. Literature and sponsored in Rochester by Gleason Foundation and the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Fund. LOCKHART GALLERY The Paper Sculpture Show February 6–March 27, 2005 Pompelmous, Surinam and Centaurea Cyanus: Botanical Organized by Cabinet magazine, Independent Curators Inter- Prints from the Collection of Jacquelyn and William Pinch national (ICI), and SculptureCenter. The traveling exhibition June 18–August 29, 2004 was organized and circulated by Independent Curators Inter- Sponsored by the Georgia O’Keeffe Society and Claude Monet national. The exhibition and its accompanying publication were Society of the Gallery’s Director’s Circle. made possible, in part, by support from the Peter Norton Family Foundation. In Rochester, the exhibition was sponsored by Mrs. If Elected I Will Serve Lynne Lovejoy. September 10–November 21, 2004 Offered in honor of the elected officials who have supported the Paper Trail: Work by Regional Artists arts in our community, and Susan B. Anthony and Frederick February 6–March 27, 2005 Douglass, whose efforts contributed to voting rights for all. ­Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery and sponsored by Xerox Corporation. Better Things: Photographs of Gallery Art by Douglas Holleley The View from Here: Contemporary Russian December 3, 2004–February 13, 2005 and American Screenprints Sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company. April 17–June 26, 2005 ­Organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, and Japanese Prints from the Floating World sponsored in Rochester by Rosemary and James C. MacKenzie. February 25–May 8, 2005 ­Offered in honor of Thomas H. Jackson, president of the 60th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition University of Rochester. July 24–September 18, 2005 Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery and sponsored by A High Style: Alex Katz’s Alex and Ada Portfolio The Rochester Group. May 20–July 31, 2005 Sponsored by the Georgia O’Keeffe Society and Claude Monet Society of the Gallery’s Director’s Circle. Credits this page: The Reader courtesy the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art. Inner Coffin of Pa-debehu-Aset, Egypt, 4th c. bce (MAG, Marion Stratton Gould Fund). Evening Bell at Sanyenzan (MAG, Gift of Dr. James B. Austin). The Wings Will Grow courtesy International Arts & Artists. Wendell Castle’s Last In 2005, visitors to The Paper Sculpture Show rolled up Michael Rogers was one Summer 2005 saw a Lockhart Judgment (2003) was their sleeves; grabbed paper, paste and scissors; and created of six artists in the second Gallery show featuring a 1990 one highlight of a 3-D works using designs by 26 artists. Their works became Rochester Biennial. Shown portfolio of prints by Alex Katz. long-term installation part of a lively and unconventional exhibition that ques- in detail is his Portrait of Among the subjects was the spanning four decades tioned the very definition of art. Meitner (2003). artist’s wife, Ada. of the artist’s career. Exhibitions For the Sake of a Single Verse: Lithographs by Ben Shahn HERDLE FOUNTAIN COURT August 12–November 27, 2005 Italian Baroque Organ Offered in honor of Joel Seligman, president of the University of Rochester. Long-term installation inaugurated October 2005 Organ on permanent loan from the Eastman School of Music Extreme Materials Teaser December 16, 2005–April 9, 2006 PRINT STUDY CORRIDOR Robert Marx: Considering the Voluntary Absence of God Pierre Celice and the Abstract Print April 21–July 16, 2006 June 29–September 12, 2004 Offered in honor of BOA Editions’ 30th anniversary and in memory of its founder, A. Poulin, Jr. And God Said: Works on Paper in Recognition of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year LUCY BURNE GALLERY September 15–December 12, 2004 Rochester Art Club Interior Landscapes: Surrealism in the Permanent Collection June 17–August 5, 2005 December 15, 2004–March 6, 2005 Print Club of Rochester the voice of your eyes: paintings and drawings by e.e.