Reverberations Exploring Movement in the Collection Art Exhibit

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Sat, Dec 26, 2020
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
2020-12-26T11:00:00-05:00
2020-12-26T18:00:00-05:00
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Asheville Art Museum
2 S Pack Square, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
15 general admission $13 adult discounted admission (senior 65+) $10 student discounted admission
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Asheville Art Museum
828.253.3227
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Marianne Preger-Simon, Portrait of Merce Cunningham, 1953, ink on paper, 11 ⅜ × 10 inches. Black Mountain College Collection, gift of the Artist, 2009.17.12.41. © Marianne Preger-Simon

Reverberations

Exploring Movement in the Collection

Appleby Foundation Exhibition Hall

Movement in static mediums such as painting, drawing, and photography is difficult to express, yet many artists feel called to explore it. Movement serves as an impetus for creation—to either capture it or create it in entirely different mediums. The works here, selected from the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection, highlight additional approaches to rendering a lasting imprint of the ephemeral. Artists such as Walter Iooss and Blythe Bohnen are concerned with the motion of the human form, evoking a sense of elongated or contracted muscles, of limbs moving through space. Others, like Robyn Horn and Bernar Venet, approach the challenge through abstraction, foregoing representation yet communicating an atmosphere of dynamic change. Marianne Preger-Simon’s drawings of her fellow dancers at Black Mountain College in the summer of 1953 are not only portraits but also a dance of pencil on paper, created in the spirit of artist Josef Albers’s line studies as she simultaneously worked with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Each of these artists ultimately reflects on the time-based ephemeral nature of movement.