Collection Exhibitions
Attachment
Completed8/27/2015 - 12/12/2015
Organizing institution: Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Primary Curator: Amy Powell
Works of art are not singular or isolated things. Rather, we understand them in relation to the contexts in which they were produced and the investments they solicit from us—the feelings they engender, the values they accrue, and the communities they make. When considering a museum collection in terms of such attachments, the museum becomes an entangled actor, and the bonds between the institution and the objects in its care come into view as much as artists’ connections to their subjects and the forces of encounter between artwork and viewer. Attachment is a thematic collaboration among KAM curators and draws from most areas of the museum’s permanent collection along with a selective number of loans. Organized under five themes—appendages, supports, shadow bodies, accumulations, and refusals—the exhibition examines critical scenes of attachment to encompass material, affective, bodily, psychoanalytic, cultural, political, and institutional frames of reference. [Co-curators: Amy L. Powell, Allyson Purpura, Kathryn Koca Polite with assistance from doctoral student in Art History Dana Ostrander]
- Adler and Sullivan (active Chicago, IL, USA, 1883 - 1924)
- Adolph Gottlieb (New York, NY, USA, 1903 - 1974, New York, NY, USA)
- Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1928 – 1987, New York, NY, USA)
- Annette Lemieux (Norfolk, VA, USA, 1957 - )
- Arnold Herman Crane (Chicago, IL, USA, 1932 - 2014)
- Bea Nettles (Gainesville, FL, USA, 1946 - )
- Berenice Abbott (Springfield, OH, USA, 1898 - 1991)
- Carl Chiarenza (Rochester, NY, USA, 1935 - )
- Cecil Vincent Donovan (Homer, NY, USA, 1896 - 1987)
- Christian Barthelmess (Klingenberg, Germany, 1854 - 1906, Fort Koegh, MT, USA)
- Conrad Bakker (Canada, 1970 - )
- Danny Lyon (Brooklyn, NY, USA, 1942 - )
- David Svensson (Skillingaryd, Sweden, 1973 - )
- David Wojnarowicz (Red Bank, NJ, USA, 1954 - 1992)
- Edward Ruscha (Omaha, NE, USA, 1937 - )
- Frank Gallo (Toldedo, OH, USA, 1933 - 2019, Urbana, IL, USA)
- Fritz Scholder (Breckenridge, MN, USA, 1937 - 2005, Phoenix, AZ, USA)
- Hans Bellmer (Katowice, Poland, 1902 - 1975, Paris, France)
- Hedda Sterne (Bucharest, Romania, 1910 - 2011, Manhattan, NY, USA)
- Hovsep Pushman (Armenia, 1877 - 1966, New York City, NY, USA)
- Jacob Maentel (Kassel, Germany, 1763 - 1863, New Harmony, IN, USA)
- Jess (Long Beach, CA, USA, 1923 - 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Laton Alton Huffman (Castila, IA, USA, 1854 - 1931, Billings, MT, USA)
- Lorna Simpson (Brooklyn, NY, USA, 1960 - )
- Louis H. Sullivan (Boston, MA, USA, 1856 - 1924, Chicago, IL, USA)
- Louise Bourgeois (Paris, France, 1911 - 2010, New York, NY, USA)
- Marlene Dumas (Cape Town, South Africa, 1953 - )
- Melissa Pokorny (Detroit, MI, USA, 1962 - )
- Michael Ray Charles (Lafayette, LA, USA, 1967 - )
- Nellie Verne Walker (Red Oak, IA, USA, 1874 - 1973)
- Purvis Young (Miami, FL, USA, 1943 - 2010, Miami, FL, USA)
- Seth Thomas (Wolcott, CT, USA, 1785 - 1859)
- Vera Klement (Gdansk, Poland, 1929 - )
- Vernon Fisher (Fort Worth, TX, USA, 1943 - )
- Walker Evans (St. Louis, MO, USA, 1903 - 1975, New Haven, CT, USA)
- Wendy Jacob (United States, 1958 - )
- Willie Cole (Newark, NJ, USA, 1955 - )
- Yannis Spyropoulos (Pylos, Greece, 1912 - 1990)
- Yousuf Karsh (Mardin, Turkey, 1908 - 2002)
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