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Current Exhibitions
The Woodson Art Museum offers an active program of eight to ten changing exhibitions each year that encourages frequent visits, as does an array of programs for children and adults designed to complement these exhibitions.
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Torqued & Twisted: Bentwood Today
Bentwood
artworks – rockers, tables, and
sculptures – are formed through steaming,
laminating, or greenwood bending and result in
elegant, unusual forms. Delicate and graceful
lines are created by using steam and hot water to
soften and then shape the wood. Artists must work
quickly before the wood returns to its naturally
hardened state. The nine artists featured in
Torqued & Twisted are masters of their
craft and through their work challenge audiences
to reconsider the angular and traditional
characteristics of woodwork. Torqued &
Twisted is co-curated by Tom Loeser,
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and
artist and Katie Lee, of the Center for Craft,
Creativity, and Design, in Hendersonville, North
Carolina.
Click on the links below to view additional artworks from this exhibition.
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April 13 through June 16, 2013
Jason
Ramey’s work in Functional & Abstract
includes useful, contemporary furniture as well as
conceptual sculpture that creates a metaphor for
human existence within a defined, familiar space.
Lathchair, for example, wrapped with pieces
of steam-bent pine lath strips reminiscent of
those found in historic buildings’ plaster walls,
directly faces a lath wall that seems to envelope
the chair. Like the wood he shapes into furniture
and abstract sculpture, Jason Ramey’s career has
followed a circuitous path. Sketches made while
studying psychology at Purdue University led to a
Herron School of Art and Design degree in 2008 and
a master’s four years later from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where he now teaches in the Art
Department’s wood and furniture design program.
Click on the links below to view additional artworks from this exhibition.
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April 13 through June 16, 2013
In his playful, highly stylized serigraphs and
illustrations of animals, Charley Harper
(1922-2007) distilled complex elements into a
subject's basic ones by using distinct shapes and
bold colors. "When I look at a wildlife or nature
subject, I don't see feathers, fur, scapulars, or
tail coverts – none of that," he said. "I see
exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns,
textures, fascinating behavior, and endless
possibilities for making interesting pictures."
This prolific graphic designer called his unique,
geometric style "minimal realism." Beguiled by
the Wild is organized by the
Virginia Living Museum in Newport News.
Click on the links below to view additional artworks from this exhibition.
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