Artist Spotlight

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Photographer Graciela Iturbide: Capturing the Spirit

Posted: March 17, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Mexican artist Graciela Iturbide is considered on of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades. Her oeuvre is rich in dramatic and intense imagery...

Artist Spotlight: Karen Halverson Captures Americana on Camera

Posted: March 11, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Karen Halverson (American, b. 1941) creates large format color landscape photographs. She spent several decades documenting the American West, traveling throughout the country capturing the intersection of the natural and...
An installation view of a gallery space with white walls and a gray floor. On the wall facing the viewer it says "Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection" in blue and pink letters.

Artist Spotlight: Hellen van Meene Makes You Wonder

Posted: March 4, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Artist Spotlight: Ingrid Mwangi—H-y-p-h-e-n-a-t-e-d Identity

Posted: February 25, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn about performance and video artist Ingrid Mwangi's (Mwangi Hutter) exploration of hyphenated identity.
Four photographs, read horizontally from left to right, portray close-ups details of the artist’s body: her face, obscured by hands in prayer; a scarred back; hands pressed into upper thighs, and toes suspended over soil. With each picture, her skin appears increasingly dark.

Artist Spotlight: Georgia Mills Jessup—Right as Rain

Posted: February 17, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
In her 1967 painting, Rainy Night, Downtown, part of the NMWA collection and on view on the third floor, Jessup celebrates the urban landscape on a rainy evening.
Heavy black lines along with circles and ovals rendered in hot hues of orange and yellow evoke urban architecture and the glare of streetlights in an abstract painting. Two shadowy figures occupy the lower right, and legible signs include “Translux,” “St. H NW,” and “Casino.”

Artist Spotlight: Chakaia Booker—Hail to the ‘Queen of Rubber Soul’

Posted: February 9, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
In 2002, independent curator and art critic Lily Wei wrote that everything Chakaia Booker does is “filtered through being black, a woman, and an artist.” Although relatively quiet and private...
The wall-sized, horizontal sculpture consists of black rubber tires and tubing that has been sliced, stripped, woven, looped, twisted and otherwise manipulated into an expressive and abstract high-relief tableau.

Artist Spotlight: E. V. Day—Don’t Get Your Panties in a Bunch

Posted: February 2, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Often working with readymade objects such as Barbie dolls, fishnet stockings, opera costumes, and wedding dresses, sculptor and installation artist E. V. Day delves into the cultural fetishism by manipulating...
A sculpture made made from spandex and objects resembling military planes flying down towards the ground.

Picturesque Prints by Richenda Cunningham

Posted: January 28, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Now on view in NMWA’s Teresa Lozano Long Gallery, The Art of Travel: Picturesque Views of Europe by Richenda Cunningham features “Nine Views Taken on the Continent,” c. 1830, a...
An etching of a temple amidst ruins. At the entry of the temple, four little figures in soldier gear are standing and sitting. On the other side of the temple, a woman in a hat is walking along the collonades. Underneath the etching, it says: "Temple of Caius

Artist Spotlight: Valeska Soares–More than the Eye Can See

Posted: January 27, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Brazilian sculptor and installation artist Valeska Soares investigates multi-sensory approaches and how memory and personality influence the viewers’ perception of art. Soares has two artworks in P(art)ners: Gifts from Heather...
A long sculpture lying on a pedestal. The sculpture is made from beeswax and has an organic shape, resembling two open mouths on opposite sites, connected through a yellow line.

Artist Spotlight: Daniela Rossell Captures the Rich and Famous

Posted: January 20, 2011
Category: Artist Spotlight
Learn more about artist Daniela Rossell, whose "Ricas y Famosas" series is featured in the NMWA collection.
A slim, light-skinned woman wearing a long, emerald-green dress gazes up at the viewer from the foot of the bed, her bare feet near the headboard. Brown hair radiates from her head in 10 curled, snake-like segments. Her arms, bent at the elbows, extend from her body to form a W.