Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, CA
916-264-5423
http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/
Rough Edge: Selections from the Broad Art
Foundation
September 8 - November 26, 2000
Provocative and timely, Rough Edge:
Selections from the Broad Art Foundation, opens to the public September
9, 2000. During the past two decades, new visual approaches and technique
have challenged preconceived notions of what constitutes a painting. The
art of Rough Edge is a response to our image-saturated, visual culture
-- raising political, social and cultural issues in unexpected and sometimes
jarring ways. This bold exhibition, from the Broad Foundation, has been
created especially for the Crocker Art Museum.
In
a special Ballroom installation, Rough Edge showcases nine, life-size,
color photographic portraits from Cindy Sherman's History Portraits
series. Sherman, well known to contemporary art audiences, satires conventions
and pretensions often associated with art history. Walking the line between
comedy and horror, Sherman's photographic portraits confront the audience's
emotions relating to art, history, gender and class. This is the first time
that selections from the History Series will be seen in Sacramento.
(left: John Ahearn, Samson, 1990, oil on cast fiberglas, Courtesy
of the Broad Art Foundation)
The exhibition also features important work by such eclectic
and original artists as John Ahearn, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Ross
Bleckner, David Bowes, Richmond Burton, Saint Clair Cemin, Sue Coe, David
Deutsch, Ellen Gallagher, Peter Halley, Lee Jaffe, Barbara Kruger, Jonathan
Lasker, Sherrie Levine, Candy Noland, Albert Oehlen, Tom Otterness, Robert
Therrien, Terry Winters, David Wojnarowicz and Christopher Wool whose work,
in sum, reflects the pluralistic nature of the art world at the close of
the twentieth century.
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In
a special Ballroom installation, Rough Edge showcases nine, life-size,
color photographic portraits from Cindy Sherman's History Portraits
series. Sherman, well known to contemporary art audiences, satires conventions
and pretensions often associated with art history. Walking the line between
comedy and horror, Sherman's photographic portraits confront the audience's
emotions relating to art, history, gender and class. This is the first time
that selections from the History Series will be seen in Sacramento.
(left: John Ahearn, Samson, 1990, oil on cast fiberglas, Courtesy
of the Broad Art Foundation)