CONTEMPORARY MASTERS
WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS April 7 through July 9, 2017
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk Thursday, April 6, 6–8:30 p.m. Fifth floor Gallery Talk, 6:30 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Brown Bag Lunch Curatorial assistant Glauco Adorno discusses Latino artists in Contemporary Masters Wednesday, May 3, 12–1 p.m. Third floor Third Thursday Artist/professor Leslie Friedman leads printmaking discussion and demonstration Thursday, May 18, 6–8 p.m. Sixth floor IMAGE: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), High Priority (detail), 1975, pastel on paper, museum purchase funded by Frederick Stimpson and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Art Talk Spring 2017
Comprised of the works on paper holdings of the Art Museum of South Texas, Contemporary Masters, brings together works by artists of regional, national, and international importance, with a particular focus on Texas artists. This exhibition, as the title implies, offers works by a number of icons in the art world including Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Judy Chicago, Dale Chihuly, Salvador Dali, Paul Jenkins, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, among others. Stylistically, works range from minimalism to realism, pop to op, narrative to symbolism. Techniques represented in the exhibition include drawings in pastel, ink, pencil, crayon, colored pencil, and charcoal; printmaking in the form of serigraphy, lithography, etching, and monoprint; as well as the use of collage and renderings in liquid media such as oil, acrylic, gouache, and watercolor. These works on paper are significant works in their own right, but many also offer insight into the value of graphic arts and drawing as preparation for execution of works in other media such as sculpture. Often artists better known for work in other media expanded their oeuvre by working alongside master printers at printmaking studios across the United States such as Tamarind, Brandywine, Gemini, Graphicstudio, Pace, Landfall, and Blackburn. Organized by The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. Are you interested in supporting this exhibition? Contact Heather Nelson, Director of Development, at 225-389-7212 or hnelson@lsufoundation.org for details.