A range of good stuff here, in a fairly spectacular building (designed by Moshe Safdie). Mainly:
Walking the Horizon: Works by Bertha Husband
My introduction to Husband (Scottish, 1948-2017) and she is excellent! Politically engaged contemporary surrealist collage and mixed media.
Therman Statom - 'Glass House', 2005
Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America
An 'evolving' exhibition; the current iteration includes a few artists I knew, including a couple as of very recently. Most strikingly, another pair of photos by Sheila Pree Bright, 'Anjre Kerr' (2007) and 'Jenny Liu' (2008), both from her Young Americans series.
Monet to Matisse: Masterworks of French Impressionism
Selected from the collection of the Dixon Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee, which must be quite some collection given the quality of the artists represented in this exhibition - admittedly not always particularly standout examples of their work/style, and spanning a number of artists who were 'around the time of the impressionists', and in some cases quite a while after, rather than actually painting in anything like an impressionist style.
I found myself having trouble turning off the intellectual and categorising part of my brain, making it difficult to really immerse myself and open up to the art, probably for a bunch of reasons (quite a lot of exposure to most of these artists, somewhat disconnected - ie not very concrete - frame of mind).
Interestingly, Maximilien Luce's 'The Cathedral at Gisors, View of the Ramparts' (1898) really popped in this context, by contrast to my overall somewhat lukewarm recollections of the neo-impressionism exhibition at the NGV a few years back (though I see I liked his stuff then too).
Walking the Horizon: Works by Bertha Husband
My introduction to Husband (Scottish, 1948-2017) and she is excellent! Politically engaged contemporary surrealist collage and mixed media.
'When Night Falls', 2005
'Hail Erinyes #3 ... the first death' (two of three panels), 1994
Therman Statom - 'Glass House', 2005
Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America
An 'evolving' exhibition; the current iteration includes a few artists I knew, including a couple as of very recently. Most strikingly, another pair of photos by Sheila Pree Bright, 'Anjre Kerr' (2007) and 'Jenny Liu' (2008), both from her Young Americans series.
Monet to Matisse: Masterworks of French Impressionism
Selected from the collection of the Dixon Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee, which must be quite some collection given the quality of the artists represented in this exhibition - admittedly not always particularly standout examples of their work/style, and spanning a number of artists who were 'around the time of the impressionists', and in some cases quite a while after, rather than actually painting in anything like an impressionist style.
Renoir - 'The Wave', 1882
Monet - 'Village Street', about 1869-71
Chaim Soutine - 'Landscape at Cagnes', about 1922
Chagall - 'Dreamer', 1945
Interestingly, Maximilien Luce's 'The Cathedral at Gisors, View of the Ramparts' (1898) really popped in this context, by contrast to my overall somewhat lukewarm recollections of the neo-impressionism exhibition at the NGV a few years back (though I see I liked his stuff then too).
