NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORES ABSTRACT ART

  • AUBURN, Alabama
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  • May 06, 2011

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Alice Baber, (American, 1928–1982), Lord of the Rainbow, 1976, Oil on canvas, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; gift of Raeford and Virginia Liles in memory of Alice Baber, 2007.21

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents an exhibition titled Form, Line, and Color: Selected Works of Abstraction in the Permanent Collection on view from May 14–Aug. 13 in the Chi Omega–Hargis Gallery.

 

The exhibition will showcase recent acquisitions alongside older favorites and feature works that illustrate modern artists’ range of expression as it diverges from a desire to faithfully reproduce visible reality.

 

Abstract, nonobjective, and nonrepresentational are elusive terms used to describe a loose continuum that moves from subjective representations of the world we inhabit to artwork that bears no naturalistic references.

Florence Neal, (American, born 1954), Taboo, 2003, Pastel and graphite on paper, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University; gift of David Gubits in honor of Florence Neal, 2007.08

 

Paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by both modern masters and emerging artists––including John Cage, David Lynch, Larry Poons and Robert Rauschenberg––compose this selection of compelling works sure to engage the mind and sooth the soul this summer.

 

For more information on this exhibition, please visit jcsm.auburn.edu or call 334-844-1484 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            334-844-1484      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            334-844-1484 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            334-844-1484      end_of_the_skype_highlighting      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

 

 

Contact:
Colleen Bourdeau
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
334-844-7075
cbourdeau@auburn.edu

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
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.


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