University of Illinois faculty and graduate teaching assistants are invited to an informal preview and discussion of Krannert Art Museum's planned Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 exhibitions.
Together we hope to brainstorm with you about possible curricular tie-ins and collaborations, and to explore how KAM exhibitions can be used in teaching and connect with your research.
Beverages and small bites will be served at this event. Please RSVP by emailing Senior Curator Allyson Purpura and help us get the word out by inviting colleagues who might be interested.
We’re always happy to meet with you individually or with your departments should a particular project be of interest and you’re unable to attend this preview. Feel free to contact us any time.
The exhibitions we'll discuss include:
Art Since 1948
A permanent reinstallation of modern and contemporary art from the Krannert Art Museum collection, curated by Amy L. Powell
Opening August 2019
Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape
October 17, 2019 – March 21, 2020
Organized by the University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, and organized at KAM by Lilah Leopold (PhD student, Art History) and Amy L. Powell
Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape brings together 18 international artists and art collectives who examine the environmental impact of military and industrial production and use of radioactive materials. Artworks in the exhibition scrutinize the nuclear industry, including its day-to-day functions and long-term impact, with an emphasis on the complex issue of radioactive waste. The artists in this exhibition examine this expansive subject through a variety of themes, including rendering the invisible visible, using art as a tool of information disclosure and disruption, and developing the complex language necessary to communicate thousands of years into the future.
Hive
January 30, 2020 – January 23, 2021
Organized by Amy L. Powell and Clara Bosak-Schroeder
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission with New York-based visual artist Nancy Davidson and Chicago-based sound artist Lakshmi Ramgopal. Slated for public view throughout 2020, Hive challenges the functionality and meaning of the museum’s 1988 Kinkead Pavilion expansion, a postmodern interpretation of classical architecture by Larry Booth (Booth Hansen, Chicago). Set back from the street, this entrance to KAM exemplifies the museum-as-temple model with its scale, columns, and paned glass; all distinctive from the original Ambrose Richardson low-slung 1961 portion of the building. Davidson has proposed two monumental, twenty-feet tall, pink works with embedded custom lighting to fill the Kinkead Pavilion, inspired by the classical Greek goddess Artemis of Ephesus and caryatids, a feature of classical architecture where a woman with braided hair physically supports a building. Ramgopal will compose a new sound work for Hive that will create an aural environment.
Bow and Trees Gallery Reinstallation
These spaces will be re-installed in late May, returning some ‘old favorites’ to the freshly painted space as well as works that have not been on view for some time. As with KAM's other gallery reinstallations, this project will include space for thematically organized displays as well as longer-term collection installations.
Krannert Art Museum Exhibitions Team
Jon Seydl, Museum Director
Allyson Purpura, Senior Curator | Curator of Global African Art
Amy L. Powell, Curator of Global Modern and Contemporary Art
Maureen Warren, Curator of Early Modern European and American Art
Katie Koca Polite, Assistant Curator and Publications Specialist
Anne Sautman, Director of Education
Lilah Leopold, Curatorial intern, Modern and Contemporary Art
