Join us in celebration of the opening of our new exhibitions! Get a first look at the work on display, enjoy some refreshments, gather with friends, and pick up one of our new calendars!Join us in celebration of the opening of our new exhibitions! Get a first look at the work on display, enjoy some refreshments, gather with friends, and pick up one of our new calendars!
Opening Receptions: Salon de Fleurus & Collective Weave: Andrea Geyer
Thursday, February 1, 2018, 5-7pm
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College
SALON DE FLEURUS
Salon de Fleurus is an artwork, a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas’ Parisian salon that existed at 27 Rue de Fleurus from 1904-34. It is a work that displays and references a story of modern art’s beginnings through one of the first gathering places for burgeoning young artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Stein herself. It was in Stein’s salon that paintings by Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso were seen exhibited together for the first time both by her peers and transatlantic art experts who spread the word back home, eventually creating the American narrative of European modern art familiar today.
COLLECTIVE WEAVE: Andrea Geyer
‘What do you imagine when hearing the word Modernism?’ is a question Andrea Geyer likes to ask. What formed that imagination? How do artists and artworks enter the canon of institutionalized histories? How do their ideas, their knowledge, their relations become recognizable to a student, a researcher, a scholar or a museum visitor? The works in Andrea Geyer’s exhibition Collective Weave offer an entry into American Modernism through the women who drove and enabled it. All the works in the exhibition share a commitment not only to the pasts they draw from, but to the potentials and imagination the silence they refer to can spark.
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All exhibitions and events at the Handwerker Gallery are free and open to the public. The Handwerker Gallery is open Monday, Wednesday, & Friday from 10am-6pm; Thursdays from 10am-9pm; and Saturday & Sunday from 12pm-5pm. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Mara Baldwin at mbaldwin@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3548. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20180130225124558