Upcoming Exhibitions
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Brian Dettmer: Elemental
May 30-August 18, 2013
MAY 30th EXHIBITION OPENING - DETAILS AND TICKETS
Brian Dettmer is an internationally renown sculptor who uses outdated, mass-produced books as the medium for his craft. The artist carefully slices through books such as old encyclopedias and medical guides, revealing words, patterns and images. Individual ideas and thoughts are separated from their original context and rejoined to allow them new possibilities of meaning. What is left behind is a stunning, visual prose.
Dettmer has exhibited at insitutions world-wide, such as Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Georgia), Museum Rijswiijh (Netherlands) and Wellcome Collection (England).
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Stacey Steers: Night Hunter
May 30-August 18, 2013
MAY 30th EXHIBITION OPENING - DETAILS AND TICKETS
In her film Night Hunter, artist Stacey Steers has created a dream-like, open-ended narrative that is both eerie and beautiful to behold. Steers stitched together images of early silent film actress Lillian Gish with 18th and 19th century engravings to create over 4000 hand-made collages for the film. Night Hunter House, an installation modeled on a Victorian doll house will accompany the animated film.
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Stacey Steers: Select Films
May 30-August 18, 2013
MOCA presents three of Steers’ early films that play in a continuous loop in our Price Auditorium including PHANTOM CANYON (2006), TOTEM (1999) and WATUNNA (1990). Click on the title of the film below to see an excerpt from the film.
PHANTOM CANYON
A curious woman meets an alluring man with bat wings in this personal recollection of a pivotal journey. This 10 minute animated film was created from over 4000 hand-made collages incorporating the figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887.
TOTEM
A stream of consciousness look at our evolving relationship to the animal world.
WATUNNA
Creation cycle mythology from the Yekuana Indians of the Orin…
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Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project
May 30-August 18, 2013
MAY 30th EXHIBITION OPENING - DETAILS AND TICKETS
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project assigned some of today’s most significant artists and designers a tarot card which assembled make an entire deck. The resulting 78 images range in interpretation and mediums including painting, drawing, collage, and photography. Whether they are regarded as flimflam or oracle, these cards are dynamic, alluring and simply magical.
Featured artists include: Kehinde Wiley, Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, Karl Lagerfeld, Yayoi Kusama and Ryan McGinness.
Curated by Stacy Engman
Traveling Show Made Possible by: KLÜP Foundation
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Wade Mickley: Terribly Wonderful
May 30 - August 18, 2013
MAY 30th EXHIBITION OPENING - DETAILS AND TICKETS
Wade Mickley draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including comics, books, magazines, the internet, the news and friendships with other artists. Many of the works shown here are called “assemblage,” which is a 3-D composition constructed from found or gathered objects. Mickley’s sculptures reference folk or “outsider” art and feature materials that have a rough or weathered look. In addition to shaped and painted wood, there are broken roof tiles, vinyl records, rusted bits of metal, and signs. Wade Mickley is a Hampton Roads native who currently lives in Newport News.
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