EXHIBITION EXAMINES SOUTHERN PRINTMAKING
- AUBURN, Alabama
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- April 21, 2011
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University hosts a new exhibition entitled Reconsidering Regionalism: Prints Inspired by the South 1951-2011 on view through July 23 in the Bill L. Harbert Gallery.
Reconsidering Regionalism examines themes that inform much of contemporary printmaking created in the American South and by artists from outside the region that comment on the area’s culture and politics.
The exhibition, co-curated by Lynn Barstis Williams Katz, a prominent collector from Auburn and scholar in the field of Southern printmaking, picks up where Katz’s prior survey of historic Southern prints left off, in Imprinting the South, formerly on view at JCSM in 2008.
Beginning with works produced at mid-twentieth century and following through to the present, the assembled images by well-known and emerging artists offer a fresh panorama of the South: its social, economic, racial and geographic identity.
Included in the exhibition are prints by Radcliffe Bailey, Roger Brown, Warrington Colescott and many others. Reconsidering Regionalism features works in the museum’s permanent collection along with selected loans.
For more information on this exhibition, please visit jcsm.auburn.edu or call 334-844-1484.
Contact:
Colleen BourdeauJule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
334-844-7075
cbourdeau@auburn.edu
901 South College Street
Auburn, Alabama
jcsm@auburn.edu
334-844-1484
http://www.jcsm.auburn.edu
About Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
Open since 2003, the JCSM at Auburn University is Alabama’s only university art museum. Serving as the gateway into Auburn University, the museum has a wide-ranging permanent collection, which includes more than 100 Audubon prints, Tibetan bronzes dating from as early as the 15th century and works by important American modern artists, such as Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and Lyonel Feininger. The museum rotunda features a three-tiered, hand-blown glass chandelier created especially for the space by internationally renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly. Admission to JCSM is free in 2011 thanks to the museum’s Business Partners.
