A multidisciplinary artist, Carolee Schneemann transformed the definition of contemporary art, steering it toward a discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. Schneemann initially examined these issues through the medium of painting, but in the early 1960s she began employing other media—notably, performance art, installation art, and documentary photography—to explore suppressive taboos and the relationship between the individual human body and the social body.
Sponsored in part by the School of Art + Design Ed Zagorski Visitor's Fund
This retrospective exhibition presented Schneemann's career from her earliest work to her most recent investigations, ultimately revealing the artist's thought process. The exhibition included paintings, drawings, photography, installation work, video projections, and writings. Schneemann is a MFA graduate from the School of Art + Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises, curated by Brian Wallace, was first organized by and presented at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz from February–July 2010. This revised presentation was organized by Krannert Art Museum in partnership with The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington.
Exhibition Programming
January 26
5–6 pm: Private Reception for Museum Members
6–7 pm: Public Opening Reception (museum open until 9 pm)
Featured a gallery conversation with exhibiting artist Carolee Schneemann at 6 pmSponsored by the Krannert Art Museum Council
February 23
7 pm: Film screening of !Women Art Revolution
Sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and Krannert Art Museum
March 1
7:30 pm: Artist Lecture – "Mysteries of the Iconongraphy"
A visual lecture by Carolee Schneemann in which she discussed the mysteries of a notched stick, paper folds, indentations, and the slice of line in space, and how they were followed as unexpected structural motives, up to and including her recent photographic grids and objects.Sponsored by the School of Art + Design Ed Zagorski Visitor's Series, Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, and Krannert Art Museum
Co-curators: Elizabeth Brown and Kathleen Harleman, museum director
