Reflections from the Artist’s Eye: Contemporary Art from the Frederick r. weisman art foundation
Date: May 17, 2008 – August 3, 2008
Curated By: Billie Milam Weisman
Venue: Pepperdine University, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90263
(310) 506-4851
Exhibited Artists:
Joon-Sung Bae, Henrietta Barkham, Lia Menna Barreto, Charles Bell, Blake Boyd, Scott Brennan, Roger Brown, Luisa Caldwell, James Cobb, Chema Cobo, John Matos CRASH, Lesley Dill, Yrjo Edelmann, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Michael Gallagher, Jedd Garet, Candice Gawne, Jack Goldstein, Joe Goode, George D. Green, Red Grooms, Vincent James, Howard Kanovitz, Kang-Yong Kim, Bethany Kriegsman, Yayoi Kusama, LA II (Angel Ortiz), Judith Linhares, Srdjan Loncar, Jean Lowe, Violise Lunn, Greg Miller, Joel Morrison, Matt Mullican, Daniel Oates, Nam June Paik, Todd Pavlisko, Martin Peregrina, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jose Luis Quinones, Jessica Rath, Kim Rugg, Masaaki Sato, Christoph Schmidberger, Mark Sparks, Keung Szeto, Tony Tasset, Banks Violette, Russell Vogt, Christian Ward, Andy Warhol, Marijke van Warmerdam, Wayne White, Cindy Wright, Rob Wynne, Robert Yarber, and Masoud Yasami.
Reflections from the Artist’s Eye: Contemporary Art From The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
What is the nature of artistic vision? Artists do see differently than the average person, but how each artist sees the world varies with each individual. Some focus on the beauty of surface appearance while others probe beneath what the eye sees. Over the past decades artists have employed various tools-running the gamut from photography to television —to expand the scope of the human eye.
This exhibition explores various approaches to seeing, ranging from photorealism to comic caricature to cosmic abstraction. Each work offers a powerful statement about what it means to look at and reflect upon the world around us. The fascinating roster includes artists such as Charles Bell, Chema Cobo, Jack Goldstein, Joe Goode, Red Grooms, Yayoi Kusama, Matt Mullican, Nam June Paik, and Robert Yarber.