Sarah Cameron Sunde: 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea September 19, 2020 – January 17, 2021
In Dialogue: Cecilia Beaux’s “Twilight Confidences” February 28, 2020 – January 31, 2021
Cecilia Beaux’s “Twilight Confidences” was the artist’s first major exercise in plein-air painting, which she produced during a summer in the French seaside village of Concarneau. Here, it appears alongside three studies for the picture in various media and techniques (all on loan from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), in order to show the rigorous yet experimental process Beaux followed in producing it. This series of exhibitions within the permanent collection brings familiar works to life by placing them in dialogue with works of art by influential peers, related sketches and studies or even objects from later periods.
“36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea” is a series of nine site-specific participatory performances and video works by the interdisciplinary artist Sarah Cameron Sunde, spanning six continents and eight years (2013 – present).
At each site, Sunde stands in ocean water for a full tidal cycle (12 to 13 hours) as the water rises up to her chin, then recedes to her feet; the local community participates in all aspects of the work. The entire performance is filmed in real time, turned into a durational video work of the same length and shown as a multi-channel video installation that premieres on location within a week of the performance. This exhibition will feature a cycle of four multi-channel videos, one from each location where Sunde has performed since 2015: the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya. “36.5” generates personal, local and global conversations about deep time and sea-level rise. It is a radical call to reconsider our rela- tionship with water as individuals, as communities and as a species. For more information about the project, visit www.36pt5.org.
Curator: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art
Curator: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art
Sarah Cameron Sunde, “36.5 / North Sea,” The Netherlands, 2015. Photograph by Florian Braakman.
Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855 – 1942), study for “Twilight Confidences,” 1888. Oil on cardboard (grisaille). Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Gift of Henry Sandwith Drinker, 1950.17.15.
Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome Closing November 8, 2020
Rome has long been a key destination for artists.
At the beginning of the 17th century, painters from across Europe flocked to the Eternal City to see the revolution caused by painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 – 1610). Everyone copied his stark contrast of light and dark, powerful realism and dramatic sense of staging. The works presented in this exhibition, all from the Museum & Gallery at Bob Jones University, celebrate how Caravaggio shaped the Italian Baroque and galvanized numerous followers. One of the main highlights is a Crucifixion by Peter Paul Rubens, who spent more than eight years in Italy.
Curator: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art
Trophime Bigot (b. Arles, 1579; d. Avignon, 1650), “St. Sebastian Tended to by St. Irene,” n.d. Oil on canvas, 50 1/8 x 64 inches. Museum&Gallery at Bob Jones University Greenville, SC.
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