The Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, is opening three new exhibitions this fall. Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior, opening on September 13, 2014 and running through January 4, 2015 (closed October 15 – 20 and November 12 – 17), is an exhibition exploring the design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses, often considered his greatest architectural accomplishment. Through reproduction drawings, photographs, and photographic murals, the exhibition illustrates the myriad ways—both obvious and subtle – Wright created the visual character of interior space and objects within it, each an essential detail of the larger whole. Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior is organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ. The exhibition will host curator-led tours on Wednesday, September 24 at 12 noon and on Friday, October 24 at 12 noon.
The Moscow Studio: Russian Prints from the Permanent Collection exhibition will open September 13 and runs through November 14, 2014 (closed October 15 – 20). The exhibition focuses on Washington artist and Corcoran School of Art teacher Dennis O’Neil, who made his first trip to Moscow in 1989 with a small group who were introduced to Russian artists who shared their particular interests. These children of the Cold War had never expected that such a meeting would be possible, or that art would provide them with an opportunity to collaborate.
The prints in the exhibition are mostly screen prints, created in central Moscow during the summer of 1992 at the Moscow Studio on 10 Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow. Some were part of the Senejh Portfolio, at a workshop sponsored by the Union of Artists of the USSR in May/June, 1991. The set was donated to the Museum by Vivienne M. Lassman, Independent Curator and Art Consultant in Washington. She was one of the original Board Members of Moscow Studio and visited O’Neil in 1992, when he was working with the initial group of Russian artists in the primitive facility. The Museum will hold a curator-led tour on Wednesday, September 24 at 12 noon.
The third exhibition, Mary Ann Schindler: Totems and Touchstones, will open September 13 and runs through October 14, 2014. Schindler works in acrylic, watercolor, oil pastel, pencil, textural medium, mosaic and found and created objects to make paintings, 3-dimensional art and site-specific installations. With acrylic pours, she manipulates pure paint to create an image independent of the usual canvas or board anchorage. Current explorations involve photographs printed on canvas and transformed or exaggerated by the application of paint.
Totems and Touchstones addresses the persons (real or fictional), iconic ideas and objects that are emblematic of our personal and cultural belief systems. The pieces in the show employ traditional mediums, as well as a variety of repurposed materials and found objects chosen for their materiality, as well as for the nuance they bring to the piece. Her work can also be seen at the Race Street Gallery in Cambridge, MD, the Opal Gallery in Leonardtown, MD, and at the Rehoboth Art League in Delaware.
Through September 28, 2014, the Museum will also feature a recent acquisition, works by Frederick Hammersley. In 2013, the Museum received a donation of 45 works on paper by Frederick Hammerlsey, consisting of 10 computer drawings; 6 prints; 18 drawings; and 11 paintings. The oeuvre was a generous gift from the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, Albuquerque, NM. Hammersley was born in 1919, in Salt Lake City, UT and died in 2009 in Albuquerque, NM. Hammersley first gained acclaim in 1959 when he was included in the Four Abstract Classicists exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which traveled to San Francisco, London, and Belfast. He was praised for his presentation of cool abstractions, very different from the emotional ones of the established abstract expressionist movement in New York. Hammersley’s artwork can be found at the National Gallery of Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Fogg Museum, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others and now also on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
These exhibitions are sponsored by Charles H. Thornton and Company, LLC and AECOS LTD and Jeffrey Parker Interiors, and made possible by the Talbot County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council. The Museum is located at 106 South Street, Easton, MD, 21601. For further information, call 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
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