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5 Fast Facts: Alison Saar

Posted: September 22, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
Impress your friends with five fast facts about sculptor and printmaker Alison Saar, whose work is on view in Alison Saar In Print through October 2, 2016.
Lithograph print on a blue background portrays a nude woman laying horizontally across the length of the paper. In place of hair, a bottle tree appears to sprout from the figure’s head.

Strong Impressions: Alison Saar’s Powerful Prints

Posted: August 23, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
Alison Saar (b. 1956) is primarily recognized for her sculptural works although her woodcuts, lithographs, and etchings are also a remarkable part of her oeuvre. Saar says that one key advantage to...
Lithograph print on a blue background portrays a nude woman laying horizontally across the length of the paper. In place of hair, a bottle tree appears to sprout from the figure’s head.

5 Fast Facts: Justine Kurland

Posted: August 17, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
Impress your friends with five fast facts about American photographer Justine Kurland, whose work is on view in NMWA’s third-floor galleries.
Crouching in the shadow of a highway overpass, three teenage girls with light skin focus intently on lighting smoke bombs.

Material Deception: Honor Freeman and Lynda Benglis

Posted: August 7, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
Two sculptures on view in NMWA’s third-floor galleries have much in common despite strong visual differences. Eridanus (1984) by Lynda Benglis is a large metal work that appears twisted and...
A collection of pastel-colored porcelain cups, bowls, containers, and lids that resemble plastic food containers. Some are stacked within and on top of each other. Some containers have lids firmly shut while on others the lids teeter off the edge of container rims.

5 Fast Facts: Hellen van Meene

Posted: August 1, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Hellen van Meene (b. 1972), whose work is on view in NMWA’s third-floor galleries.

Double Take: Rosa Bonheur in the Eulabee Dix Gallery

Posted: July 26, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
NMWA staff recently reinstalled the Eulabee Dix Gallery “salon style” to display more of the museum’s collection. The gallery, now featuring more than 30 works, includes two paintings by the...
A flock of sheep rest on a green hill by the sea. In the center, two adults and a lamb lie in a group. Flat rocks are visible through the grass. The sky has rolling clouds, and a breeze is suggested by the waves crashing on rocks in the sea, which stretches to the horizon.

Artist Spotlight: Mickalene Thomas

Posted: July 23, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
Mickalene Thomas continues to dominate art news headlines. In recent years, she exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions around the globe, became the subject of her first monograph, Muse: Mickalene Thomas...
An enamel portrait painting of a woman made with encrusted black rhinestones glued to shiny pink acrylic background.

Staging Strange: Angela Strassheim’s Photographs

Posted: July 19, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about photographer Angela Strassheim's unsettling images of crime scenes, domestic activities, and oddly posed figures.
Three light-skinned children: one with long, blonde hair wears fairy wings and kneels, reading a book, behind a toy castle in a doorway full of light; one asleep on a bed on the left; and one under a bed on the right. Between the beds, dozens of toy horses stampede at the viewer.

Louise Fishman: Freedom in the Abstract

Posted: July 11, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
eaturing 50 years of Fishman’s boundary-pushing works, the catalogue Louise Fishman (DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016) was published for her first-ever retrospective, at the Neuberger Museum of Art, as well as a...
A canvas that has been thickly painted to have a dark brown and black background. The outlines of two large white ovals are placed side by side, spanning the width of the canvas and almost two-thirds the height, and rendered with visible brushwork. The left oval is slightly larger than the right. Inside the ovals are splotches of red and white paint, which have been applied in similarly thick brushstrokes.

Wordplay and Whimsy: Priya Pereira’s Book Art

Posted: July 5, 2016
Category: Artist Spotlight
NMWA’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (LRC) currently features an exhibition showcasing works by book Mumbai-based artist Priya Pereira. The artist explores Indian culture, history, time, and language...
A brightly colored book displayed open whose pages decrease in size toward the center. To the left, a vertical rectangle on which is depicted five stylized faces with black hair, medium-dark skintone, green eyes, and no mouths. A black cat with green eyes is also among the faces.