If you haven’t been to Crystal Bridges in a while, there’s some new art to take in on your next visit.
Two new temporary exhibits, both focusing on light as a source of inspiration, opened on Saturday, Oct. 13 following a members-only preview held last week.
The first exhibit, “See the Light: The Luminist Tradition in American Art“, features 10 works by artists from the 19th century through today. The exhibit is highlighted by the new acquisition “No. 2010/No. 2011 (Orange),” by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. The work has been in a private collection, and was only exhibited twice in the last 50 years.
“See the Light” also includes light-inspired work from Larry Bell, Dale Chihuly, Arthur Garfield Dove, Dan Flavin, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Irwin, and John Singer Sargent.
The second exhibit, entitled “Moshe Safdie: The Path to Crystal Bridges” showcases the masterful use of light in architectural design by Crystal Bridges architect Moshe Safdie. The exhibition charts the design development of four key projects — Habitat 67 in Montreal, The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles — which helped to inform the design for Crystal Bridges. Through models, architectural drawings, photographs and video, this exhibition illuminates Safdie’s path to Crystal Bridges by highlighting his aesthetic language of transcendent light, powerful geometric form, and metaphoric imagery.
Both new exhibitions will be on display through Jan. 28, 2013.
See the Light: The Luminist Tradition in American Art
Photo by Robert LaPrelle
Photo by Robert LaPrelle
Photo by Dwight Primiano
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Photo by Edward C. Robison III
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