The World Around Us
Open now – closes December 7, 2008
Main Building – 3rd Floor Mezzanine Gallery
Artists have long found inspiration in the world they inhabit. Throughout human history, people have used visual art to document, represent and express ideas, events, memories, emotions, self, faith, mythology, society and art itself (color, form, composition).
Nature and the world created by man are also traditional subjects, and The World Around Us presents works showing these subjects as recorded or imagined by artists. The paintings, prints and sculpture on view in the exhibition include works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Milton Avery, John James Audubon, BJO Nordfeldt, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, April Gornik, Max Weber, Stella Waitzkin and Patricia Lay, among others.
The works present the artists’ views of the world around them at particular times and through the prisms of their own life experiences.
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