Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art July 17 – December 5, 2021
This exhibition brings together a group of light boxes and video animations that chronicle some of the most infamous and high-profile museum heists in history.
At the heart of this exhibition is a series of images that pays homage to the 13 works — including those by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt and Vermeer — stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Ezawa draws from the histories of media, popular culture and art history to create distilled renderings of iconic images. His simplified versions of indelible images remain easily recognizable and potent, the result of a process that illuminates the hold certain images have on their viewers. Working in a range of mediums such as digital animation, light boxes, paper cut-outs, collage, print and wood sculptures, Ezawa maintains a keen awareness of how images shape our experience and memory of events. “Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art” was organized by SITE Santa Fe with the Mead Art Museum.
Kota Ezawa (Japanese-German, b. 1969), “The Concert,” 2015. Duratrans transparency and LED light box, 28 1/2 × 25 1/2 inches. Collection of Nion McEvoy.
In-house curator: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art
Inside Look: Selected Acquisitions from the Georgia Museum of Art September 18, 2021 – January 30, 2022
With more than 17,000 objects in its collection, the museum cannot show everything all the time.
This exhibition features many previously unseen works of art, in- cluding new gifts and purchases across our curatorial departments that have filled critical gaps in the permanent collections. Visitors will discover examples from the “Femfolio” portfolio, featuring prints by artists such as Faith Ringgold and Miriam Schapiro; a suite of abstract prints by Sophie Taeuber-Arp; selections from the John and Sara Shlesinger Collection of contemporary art; Russian portraits from the Belosselsky-Belozersky family; important abstract and self-taught objects by Black artists; photographs of celebrity culture and everyday life in 1960s England by Lewis Morley; and scenes of the resilient communities of Appalachia by photographers Milton Rogovin and Arthur Tress.
Miriam Schapiro (Canadian, 1923 – 2015), “Court Jester.” Digital print with hand lithography, 12 × 12 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Byrnece Purcell Knox Swanson Acquisitions Fund and the Richard E. and Lynn R. Berkowitz Acquisition Endowment. GMOA 2019.329.14.
Curators: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art; Shawnya L. Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art; Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art; and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art
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