Museum preview 1994-95 - list of upcoming art exhibits - includes list of new museums due to open in 1994-95

Art in America, August, 1994

Summer

Raymond Saunders:

Recent Work

Paintings, assemblages and drawings made over the last three years comprise this exhibition by Bay Area artist Raymond Saunders, whose work is characterized by the juxtaposition of personal and cultural motifs in a bold, abstract style. The 45 pieces in the show were selected by Philip E. Linhares, chief curator of art at the Oakland Museum, where it appears June 11-Aug. 21, 1994.

Jim Nutt

The first major survey of the leading Chicago Imagist painter features about 100 works, ranging from cartoon-inspired paintings on Plexiglas of 1966-70 to recent imaginary portraits. The show is curated by Russell Bowman, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, where it premieres June 17-Aug. 28, 1994. Subsequent itinerary: Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Sept. 14-Nov. 20, 1994; National Museum of American Art, Feb. 10-May 21, 1995; Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, June 25-August 1995 (exact closing date to be announced).

Lotte Jacobi:

Old and New Worlds

One of Weimar Germany's leading portraitists, Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) fled Hitler's Germany in 1935 to establish a studio first in New York and then in Deering, N.H. This 100-print exhibition features portraits and the cameraless abstractions, called "photogenics," which she began making in the 1950s. The bulk of the show comes from the collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, which owns about 400 works from the artist's estate. Organized by independent curator Anne Hoy, the show appears at the International Center of Photography, June 24-Sept. 16, 1994.

The Sublime Is Now:

The Early Work of

Barnett Newman

This exhibition focuses on Newman's art during 1944-49, the formative years of Abstract Expressionism The unusual museum-gallery collaboration, organized by Saint Louis Art Museum curator Jeremy Strick, premiered this spring at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Mar. 20-May 29, before traveling to the Saint Louis Art Museum, June 30-Aug. 28, 1994, and Pace-Wildenstein, New York, Oct. 21-Nov. 26, 1994.

Odilon Redon:

A Retrospective

The first major survey of the Symbolist artist has almost 200 works, including paintings, pastels, charcoal drawings, etchings, lithographs, tapestry designs and decorative panels. The show is co-organized by Douglas Druick, curator of European paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago; Fred Leeman, chief curator of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; and Maryanne Stevens, librarian and head of education at the Royal Academy, London. After opening at the Art Institute, July 2-Sept. 18, 1994, the show appears at the Van Gogh Museum, Oct. 20, 1994-Jan. 15, 1995, and the Royal Academy, Feb. 22-May 21, 1995.

Pacific Dreams:

Currents of Surrealism

and Fantasy

in California Art

The unfolding of the surrealist impulse in California art during 1934-54 is traced through approximately 90 works in a variety of media. Artists include Eugene Berman, Ruth Bernhard, Claire Falkenstein, Philip Guston, Helen Lundeberg and Man Ray. Guest-curated by University of Southern California art historian Susan Ehrlich, the show premieres at the newly merged UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, July 5-Aug. 27, and travels to the Oakland Museum, Feb. 25-June 11, 1995.

Goya: Truth and

Fantasy, the Small

Paintings

In a demonstration of the artist's unusually wide range, this show presents 75 works - preliminary studies for altarpieces and frescoes, designs for royal tapestries, miniature portraits of the artist's family and melodramatic scenes of witchcraft, bullfighting, shipwreck and guerrilla warfare. The exhibition was curated by Juliet Wilson-Bareaux and Manuela Mena Marques, and organized by the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, where it appeared Nov. 18, 1993-Feb. 27, 1994, and the Royal Academy, London, where it was on view Mar. 17-June 12. It makes its only U.S. stop at the Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-Oct. 16, 1994.

the camera i

This collection of approximately 140 19th- and 20th-century self-portrait photographs was donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Audrey and Sydney Irmas. On view will be works by photographers ranging from Nadar and Rejlander to Arnulf Rainer and Cindy Sherman, selected by LACMA photo curator Robert A. Sobieszek. Itinerary: LACMA, Aug. 11-Oct. 23, 1994; Det Nationalhistoriske Museum pa Frederiksborg, Denmark, Mar. 23-June 4,1995.

September

First Artist of

the American West:

Paintings and

Watercolors by

George Catlin

Beginning in 1830, Catlin made a series of six expeditions west of the Mississippi to record the customs of Native Americans. Joan Troccoli, director of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, selected 35 paintings and 25 watercolors for this show, which is circulated by the American Federation of Arts. Itinerary. Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Tex., Sept. 2-Nov. 6, 1994; Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif., Jan. 6-Mar. 4, 1995; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Apr. 1-May 28, 1995; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., Sept. 23-Nov. 26, 1995; and four additional venues.