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EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
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The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching Collection
July 8, 2021–February 13, 2022 / 11,152 visitors 2022 SEMC Bronze Award (under $25,000 budget Exhibition Category)
This exhibition was a collaboration between the LSU Museum of Art and the LSU School of Art, and was curated by LSU Ceramics Associate Professor Andy Shaw, former LSU MOA Curator Courtney Taylor, and former LSU MOA Educator Grant Benoit.
Inspired by the visiting artist tradition, The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching Collection examined the energy and legacy of academic demonstrations. Included in this exhibition were over 200 bisque works crafted by visiting artists at LSU. The works are a valued resource for the School of Art’s top-ten ranked ceramics program. The “boneyard” refers to the unique display of bisque works on high studio shelves, used to show a variety of techniques, improvisation, and skill. The ever-growing collection was displayed at LSU MOA to imitate the classroom use of the boneyard. Faculty and instructors pull bisque objects from the shelves to highlight specific techniques and attributes of form. This exhibition also featured rotating displays, a reading area to study ceramic forms and technique, and a demonstration space activated by MFA students, local artists, and visiting artists. Museum visitors shared in the boneyard tradition—watching clay transform and viewing artist-specific techniques shared in the openness of the craft tradition.
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July 8, 2021–February 13, 2022 / 11,152 visitors
2022 SEMC Gold Award (Campaigns Publication Category)
This exhibition was curated by Daniel E. Stetson, former LSU MOA Executive Director.
Form & Fire: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection featured a collection of over 100 American studio ceramic works either on loan or promised as gifts by bequest to the LSU Museum of Art from E. John Bullard. This collection comprises artworks by 69 artists, including important figures in ceramics history such as Andrea and John Gill, Vivika and Otto Heino, Ken Ferguson, Wayne Higby, Roberto Lugo, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Don Reitz, Daniel Rhodes, Richard Shaw, Charles Smith, Paul Soldner, Akio Takamori, Robert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Kurt Weiser, Marguerite Wildenhain, and more. The Bullard Collection will be studied over time by the public and students in support of LSU's top-ten ranked ceramics program.
LSU MOA thanks the following patrons for making this exhibition and a Form & Fire collection catalogue possible: Partner Sponsors Catherine Burns Tremaine, Becky and Warren Gottsegen, and E. John Bullard; Presenting Sponsors: Robert and Linda Bowsher; and Supporters Debbie de La Houssaye and Lake Douglas, and Brian and Jacki Schneider. Programming sponsored by Louisiana CAT.
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Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers
October 20, 2021–March 20, 2022 / 8,251 visitors
This exhibition was a collaboration between the LSU College of Art + Design, the LSU School of Art, and the LSU Museum of Art. Support was provided by The Winifred and Kevin P. Reilly Jr. Fund and generous donors to the Annual Exhibition Fund.
Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers featured works based on archival images from LSU alongside a new configuration of Lin’s tobacco version of La Charada China. The installation featured a figure made of pressed tobacco leaves and other plants and materials representative of indentured Chinese labor trade. A distillation system dripped a tincture of tobacco, tea, sugar, and poppy onto an unfired porcelain sculpture crafted by LSU School of Art students during a workshop with Candice Lin at LSU MOA. This tincture of valuable colonial commodities speaks to the intertwined histories of plants and humans both within plantation economies and herbal medicine. As it dripped, it eroded the unfired porcelain—metaphorically dismantling the presumed associations of whiteness with purity, superiority, and hardness.
This exhibit was supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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State of the Art: Record
March 10–June 19, 2022 / 8,259 visitors
This exhibition was organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. The national tour was sponsored by Bank of America with additional support from Art Bridges. This exhibition and its programming were sponsored locally by a generous grant from Art Bridges
State of the Art: Record, an exhibition organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, explored the meaning of "record" to better understand the world around us. Recordings preserve information. This can include an idea, a sound, a moment in time—the important outcome remains the same: the record. The artworks in this exhibition revealed a broad expanse of this concept and were divided into three parts: historical record (preserving history and re-constructing history); seeking the intangible; and finding order. Some artists grapple with the constantly unfolding historical record. Others use their work as a way to record concepts too big for words or too abstract for simple explanation. Others employ their artistic skills to order their surroundings, transforming chaos into something manageable. Record speaks to the task of documenting the random, confusing, and sometimes inexplicable, and underscores a desire to return to the existing record in order to reconsider. Three State of the Art: Record artists visited LSU MOA and led programming, including Kellie Romany, Paul Stephen Benjamin, and Jenelle Esparza. Additionally, a zine was published by LSU MOA featuring submissions from an open call for art for participants to create their own interpretation of record (see pages 40–41).
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Eugene Martin: The Creative Act
April 7–October 2, 2022 / 8,854 visitors
Curated by Olivia Peltier, former LSU MOA Registrar.
This exhibition featured the artwork of artist Eugene Martin, and included colorful acrylic paintings, collages, and black and white ink drawings. Regardless of the media, his style is distinct—balanced abstracted compositions springing from jumbled mixtures of undulating organic forms and repetitive geometric shapes. Working in a time that African American artists were often overlooked, Martin chose to shy away from the accepted practice of creating art with realistic, culturally-connected narratives, subject matter considered “appropriate” for people of color. Instead, he relied on introspection and emotion to produce artwork stemming from his intrinsic need and impulse to create. Highlighted in the exhibition were Martin’s unparalleled collages, which feature pieces or photographs of previously completed works. This form of artistic cannibalism represents an artist’s practice which was never static and always learning. Also featured were Martin’s circle drawings, a product of setting his own limitations on composition—just to see what he could do. Working only from within, Martin straddles styles and does not answer to any outside influence and simply creates. This exhibit featured a collaborative collage studio space with art making materials, where visitors could add their own Eugene Martin-inspired collage piece to the gallery wall.
All LSU MOA exhibitions are supported by the donors to the Annual Exhibition Fund.
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▲ ART IN LOUISIANA: VIEWS INTO THE COLLECTION
Featuring works from the LSU MOA permanent collection of over 6,500 objects, these galleries include: Modern & Contemporary, Landscape, Portrait, Intro, and Newcomb Pottery. Artworks are rotated and updated regularly for visitors to experience and view new works throughout the year.
▲ WHAT IS PRINTMAKING?
This exhibition in the Pennington Foundation Family Gallery displayed artwork from the LSU MOA permanent collection that represented the theme of printmaking.
⊳ YOUNG ARTISTS GALLERY
Presented by East Baton Rouge Parish (EBRP) Fine Arts Department and Magnet Programs, this gallery displayed EBRP student artwork during their Art, Jazz, and Pizzazz! Art Walk. This gallery is sponsored by Louisiana CAT and Junior League of Baton Rouge.
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
AFTER THE ARTWORK RETURNS TO STORAGE AND THE WALLS ARE REPAINTED, MANY OF LSU MOA’S EXHIBITIONS LIVE ON, TRAVELING TO ADDITIONAL VENUES.
Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road
Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center, City of Lake Charles Lake Charles, Louisiana January 14–March 26, 2022 ⊲ 2,318 visitors
Capitol Park Museum Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 16–August 31, 2022 ⊲ 3,481 visitors
Painting Enlightenment: Experiencing Wisdom and Compassion through Art and Science
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Delray Beach, Florida May 6, 2021–March 27, 2022 (extended)
⊲ 145,987 visitors (July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022)
Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects
Fairfield University Art Museum, Walsh Gallery Fairfield, Connecticut September 9–December 18, 2021 ⊲ 707 in-person visitors ⊲ 564 virtual visitors and virtual program attendees
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia Athens, Georgia May 21–August 6, 2022 ⊲5,732 visitors
The College of New Jersey Art Gallery Ewing, New Jersey August 31–October 30, 2022
Katrina Andry: The Promise of the Rainbow Never Came
Capitol Park Museum Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 16–August 31, 2022 ⊲ 3,481 visitors
