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Crooked Data: (Mis)Information In Contemporary Art, N. Elizabeth Schlatter
Crooked Data: (Mis)Information In Contemporary Art, N. Elizabeth Schlatter
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The University of Richmond Museums exhibited Crooked Data: (Mis)Information in Contemporary Art on February 9 through May 5, 2017, in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art. The exhibition features art by twenty-one contemporary artists and studios who work with data in nontraditional ways. Some artists incorporate data from known sources, using it as an aesthetic device divorced from its originally intended interpretive function. Others gather and manifest data that might normally be considered not worthy of collecting. And some of the works explore alternatives to standard data visualization forms and practices.
Some of the works featured in Crooked …
Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives On Landscape, N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Kenta Murakami
Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives On Landscape, N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Kenta Murakami
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Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art University of Richmond Museums, VA
January 15 to March 6, 2015
Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape features 24 contemporary, international artists, artists’ collectives and game developers who examine, challenge, and re-define the concept of landscape while simultaneously drawing attention to humanity’s hubristic attempts to relate to, preserve, and manage the natural environment. Anti-Grand includes 33 works of art, with video, installation, video games, and traditional two- and three-dimensional work.
All of the works in the exhibition were created since 2000 to focus on art made well after the …
Flow, Just Flow: Variations On A Theme, N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Richard Waller, Sarah Matheson
Flow, Just Flow: Variations On A Theme, N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Richard Waller, Sarah Matheson
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Flow, Just Flow: Variations on a Theme
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond Museums, VA January 29 to June 28, 2013
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first used the term “flow” in 1975 to describe “being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.” Accordingly, this experience of single-minded immersion in an activity that is continuously challenging and rewarding is the secret to a vigorous and satisfying life.
Also referred to as “being in the zone,” this …
Art=Text=Art: Works By Contemporary Artists, N. Elizabeth Schlatter
Art=Text=Art: Works By Contemporary Artists, N. Elizabeth Schlatter
Exhibition Catalogs
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists
Wednesday, August 17 to Sunday, October 16, 2011
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
On view in the Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, from August 17 to October 16, 2011, Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists features 72 works created between 1960 and 2011, that include text or reference textual elements. Many of the works reflect developments in modern and contemporary art and critical theory, and relate to concurrent politics, history, and philosophy. Among the more than 40 artists included in the exhibition are Alice Aycock, Trisha Brown, Dan Flavin, Jane Hammond, …