Exhibitions and Events Schedule
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Daura Gallery Exhibition and Lecture Schedule: January - May, 2012
January 16 - March 2Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, New WorkDaura in France (continues through April 15)Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 17, 4 - 5 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 2012, 2 p.m."21st Century Korean Art:
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Pierre Daura, Rue Cujas - Tour de Clovis Paris ve, 1924, engraving. Collection of the Daura Gallery.
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January 16 - March 2Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, New Work |
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Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun began his series Aggregations in the 1990s. Today, he is recognized internationally for these sculptural and wall-relief forms. The fundamental elements of his work are individual, triangular, Styrofoam forms that Chun wraps in Korean mulberry paper twisted into string and assembled into large-scale works. The whole is an aggregate of its many parts. Chun's early artistic career was spent studying western painting, specifically Abstract Expressionism. Mulberry paper gives him a way to express his unique Korean artistic voice. This exhibition is curated by Susan Moldenhauer, director and chief curator of the University of Wyoming Art Museum. Funded in part by the National Advisory Board of the UW Art Museum and the Wyoming Arts Council through the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming State Legislature. Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 17, 4 - 5 p.m.
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Kwang-Young Chun, Aggregation07-D11A, 2007, mixed media and Korean mulberry paper. Reproduced by permission of the Artist and the University of Wyoming Art Museum. |
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January 16 - April 15
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Pierre Daura, Village Gate, oil on canvas, |
In 1914, at the age of 18, Pierre Daura left Barcelona to ambitiously pursue his art career in Paris. Under the tutelage of André Lambert, a graphic artist and founder of Janus, a periodic literary journal, he sketched many portraits and city scenes that became the basis for engravings. He exhibited paintings at the Salon d'Automne in 1922 and 1926, but rejected by the Salon in 1928, he joined the artists Joaquim Torres-Garcia, Jean Hélion, Engel-Rozier, and Alfred Aberdam to hold a critically acclaimed exhibition, Cinq Peintres refuses par la Jury du Salon d'Automne, at the Galeries Marck. During the 1920s and 1930s, he continued to exhibit regularly in Paris, Barcelona, and elsewhere in Europe, where his work was well received by critics. When Daura and his wife Louise visited the medieval mountain town of St. Cirq while on their honeymoon in 1930, they bought a 12th century house where they lived and worked on-and-off until late in their lives. This exhibition, drawn from the Daura Gallery and private collections, examines the urban and rural landscapes and people of France that provided Daura a constant source of subject matter.
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March 12 - April 15
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For more than 70 years, the funniest, most recklessly irreverent characters ever drawn on celluloid have been Looney Toons. The split-second timing of Bugs Bunny, the giddy lunacy of Daffy Duck, the befuddled laughter of Elmer Fudd, the hapless machinations of Sylvester the Cat, and a slew of others were the work of animation artist Chuck Jones (1912-2002). Beginning with theatrical shorts of the 1930s and re-running today on the Cartoon Network ®, they have become international celebrities and a cornerstone of American popular culture. This exhibition explores the Looney Toons characters and their capers as brought to life by Jones and voice artist Mel Blanc under the auspices of the cartoon shop at Warner Bros. Studios. © TM Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 13, 4 - 5 p.m. |
Chuck Jones, Rabbit of Seville, animation cel, |
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Jere Real: 60 Years of Watercolors
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Jere Real, Madison Avenue (Mid Day), watercolor, 2010-11.
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For 30 years, beginning in 1969, Jere Real was a professor of English and film at Lynchburg College. This was just one of his careers in his life of 74 years and, from the U.S. Air Force, the recording industry, news reporting, and photography. This exhibition of watercolors chronicles his exploration of watercolor media and place. |
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April 24 - May 12Annual Student Art Show and Senior Thesis Exhibition
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An exhibition of thesis projects by senior graphic design and studio art majors, and juried selections of work by students enrolled in visual arts courses during the 2011 - 2012 academic year.
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David Dale, Doll Series 03 (blonde), Photograph, 2011.
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