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2 Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is America’s first school and museum of fine arts. A recipient of the 2005 National Medal of Arts presented by the President of the United States, PAFA is a recognized national leader in fine arts education. Nearly every major American artist has taught, studied, or exhibited at the Academy. The institution’s world-class collection of American art continues to grow and provides what only a few other art institutions in the world offer: the rare combination of an outstanding museum and extraordinary faculty known for its commitment to students and for the stature and quality of its artistic work. President & Chief Executive Officer, David R. Brigham Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Jeffrey Carr Vice President of Admissions & Financial Aid, Stanislaus Greidus Dean of Student Affairs, Anne Stassen Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations, John J. Berg Senior Vice President of Development, Louisa Hanshew Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Marsha Braverman Preview is published three times a year by PAFA for alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and students. Produced by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Marketing Department Designed by Laura Blumenthal Copy Editor Gigi Lamm For comments or questions, contact Gigi Lamm, Public Relations Manager, at glamm@pafa.org. Board of Trustees Donald R. Caldwell, Chair Kevin F. Donohoe, Vice Chair and Treasurer Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Esq., Vice Chair & Secretary Thomas N. Pappas, Vice Chair and Assistant Secretary James C. Biddle, Vice Chair Mark L. Alderman, Esq. Roger H. Ballou Gerald P. Barth John B. Bartlett, Esq. Sally J. Bellet, Esq. Thomas L. Bennett, CFA Max N. Berry, Esq.* Lynn Nowicki Clarke* Jonathan L. Cohen* Robert A. Fisk John A. Fry* Anthony A. Imbargüen Michael T. Kennedy Mary Louise Krumrine, Ph.D. Ellen Berman Lee Marguerite Lenfest Rev. Herbert H. Lusk, II Frances M. Maguire* Emeritus Robert L. Byers, Sr. Barbara L. Greenfield, Chair, Emeritus Trustees William A. Slaughter, Esq. Richard E. Woosnam Frank Martucci* Anne E. McCollum Francis P. Newell, Esq. Delphine Poussot Linda Richardson William L. Rulon-Miller Steven L. Sanders William H. Schorling, Esq. Alfred R. Shands, III* Carole Price Shanis Henry B. du P. Smith Martha McGeary Snider Julie D. Spahr Gerard H. Sweeney Barbara A. Sylk Steven Volla Debora C. Zug *National Trustee Ex officio Julia B. DeMoss, President of the Women’s Board James J. Lynes, President, Alumni Association Gary Steuer, Director, Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Ahmeenah Young, President & CEO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority Faculty Representative Al Gury Photo: Susan Beard Design Photo: Hinda Schuman Letter from the President I recently witnessed one of the most remarkable sights of my career as an arts professional: PAFA sculpture instructor Shane Stratton (see Faculty Spotlight, page 6) led his students in a bronze pour. This is the process by which delicate wax models become durable bronze sculptures. A group of six students wearing respirators, visors, and leather protective clothing, and using a mechanized gantry lifted a cauldron of molten bronze, heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and poured it into molds of their own making. It took only twenty minutes to accomplish the pour, but it reflected millennia of tradition, years of Stratton’s training being conveyed to a group of PAFA’s undergraduate students, and hundreds of hours of student preparation. In addition to the six students directly participating, another dozen were gathered nearby observing this carefully choreographed exercise. I was awed by the chance to observe our students learning valuable foundry skills that will expand the ways they can express themselves artistically and giving them technical abilities that can lead to professional art-foundry jobs. Later in the afternoon, I toured with a patron through the galleries of PAFA’s museum, including the Henry Luce Sculpture Study Center and the Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery that together form a veritable survey of American sculpture. The works on view span from the 18th century to the 21st centuries, and include a number of bronzes by the likes of Thomas Eakins, Alexander Stirling Calder, and more contemporary bronzes by David Smith and Lee Bontecou. My appreciation for their work was deepened by the process I had seen that morning in our teaching foundry. At the end of my tour, I guided the patron to see the foundry where the bronze had been poured about four hours earlier. The space was quiet except for one student perched on the floor with a hammer and chisel in his hands, breaking away the concrete shell from his sculpture that had been cast that morning. He showed us a somersaulting figure that was half emerged from its casing. As we each marveled at the result, he looked up and told us with a broad smile, “It’s the first time I’ve ever cast a bronze sculpture.” A day like that is only possible at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and I will never get tired of participating in such moments of wonder and discovery. David R. Brigham President & Chief Executive Officer Become a Member of the Peale Circle Roxana Pérez-Méndez: Este Es Mi Pais Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building May 22 - September 26, 2010 Presenting a series of solo exhibitions by emerging artists, the new Morris Gallery season begins with an installation project Este Es Mi Pais by Philadelphia based artist Roxana Pérez-Méndez. Pérez-Méndez is a multi-media and performance artist whose work examines the fragile nature of history and identity through the lens of her own experience as a Puerto Rican woman. Este Es Mi Pais is an installation that combines paintings from the collection of PAFA with Pepper’s Ghost holograms, video images, and readymade material. In a work where illusion and reality overlap, it addresses the ambiguities of historical representation and draws into question the certainty of vision itself. Roxana Pérez-Méndez received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was a finalist for both the Joan Mitchell Award and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in By Louisa Hanshew, Senior Vice President of Development There are three kinds of people: those that make things happen, those that watch things happen, and those who don’t know what’s happening! The new Peale Circle is that group of people who make things happen. At the $1000 giving level and above, PAFA is pleased to announce the creation of our new Peale Circle. Using the templates of the former Charles Willson Peale and Potamkin Collectors Societies as our guide, and enhancing membership benefits to reflect the role the Academy plays in our artistic future, members of The Peale Circle will be able to participate in a variety of exclusive new programs, trips, lectures, tours of private collections, wine adventures, and more. Committed to a leading role in the financial support of PAFA, the Peale Circle is a group of individuals who are dedicated to the cultural achievements that have shaped American art. Members join because art matters, because it supports PAFA as we continue to grow into our third century, and because it is educational, interesting, and fun. Please let us tell you more about what’s to come and how to get involved. Contact Bill Swoope, Director of Stewardship at 215-972-2103. Vik Muniz (b. 1961), Charles Willson Peale from the series, Pictures of Ink, 2000 60 x 45 inches, Dye destruction print. Roxana Pérez-Méndez, Boricua, 2010, Pepper’s Ghost hologram, mixed media diorama, DV video and components, overall 60 x 72 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist 2006. Currently, she is an artist/member of the collective Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Two Gifts Become Two Exciting Exhibitions Summer Surprises: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building June 26 – September 12, 2010 Christy Rupp, Pigeon Flock with Rats, 1980, 29 pieces wire mesh, newspaper, adhesive, plaster, aluminum and paint, plus 2 screen-printed labels, variable installation, rats and pigeons range in size from approximately 8 x 4 x 4 inches to 14 ½ x 13 x 9 inches. The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, 2008.31.41.1-31. In 1992, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel pledged more than 2,000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures from their collection to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, under the administration of the National Gallery, they have set about distributing a further 2,500 works to museums across the country. PAFA is proud to have been selected as the museum in Pennsylvania to receive 50 works from the Vogel Collection and this exhibition offers visitors the first opportunity to enjoy this gift. The Vogel Collection has been described as unique among collections of contemporary art, both for the character and breadth of the objects and for the individuals who created it. Herbert Vogel (b. 1922) spent most of his working life as an employee of the United States Postal Service and Dorothy Vogel (b. 1935) was a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library. Setting their collecting priorities above those of personal comfort, the couple used Dorothy’s salary to cover the expenses of daily life and devoted Herbert’s salary to the acquisition of contemporary art. With the exception of the collection formed by their friend, artist Sol LeWitt, no other known private Andy Warhol Polaroids and B&W Prints Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building June 26 – September 12, 2010 In 2008, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, in an unprecedented program to honor its 20th anniversary, initiated the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in order to make substantial gifts of Warhol’s photographic works to university and college museums, galleries, and art collections across the United States. Chosen as one of the recipients, PAFA is proud to present 100 Polaroid and 51 black and white photographic prints gifted to the museum. Consisting of original Andy Warhol works that date from the period of his life when he was involved in more explicitly commercial enterprises, from magazine publishing (he started Interview magazine in 1969) to producing television shows and music videos, these works represent two important aspects of Warhol’s practice. Whereas he used black and white photographs as a visual diary to document people, places, and events in his everyday life, the Polaroid portraits served as studies from which he also developed his more prominent paintings and silkscreen works. Warhol was fascinated with glamour and fame, and through his portraits he produced iconic, idealized images of the individual. Living in a world of celebrity and documenting its everchanging cast of characters with the simplest of tools, Warhol recorded the known and the unknown, giving life to his own aphorism that “in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Top left, clockwise: Andy Warhol, Carolina Herrera, 1978, Polacolor Type 108; Pia Zadora, 1983, Polacolor ER; Pia Miller, 1985, Polacolor ER; Martha Graham, 1979, Polacolor Type 108. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, 2008.21.23; 2008.21.16; 2008.21.13; 2008.21.15. Tobi Kahn, O K Y N, 1985, Acrylic on panel, 13.75 x 17.75 inches. The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, 2008.31.21. collection of similar work in Europe or America rivals the range, complexity, and quality of the art the Vogels acquired. The presentation of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States is an opportunity for PAFA visitors to explore the breadth of the collectors’ tastes and experience their passion for contemporary art. While the best-known aspects of the Vogels’ interests are minimal and conceptual art, their collecting also encompasses works of a figurative and expressionist nature. As the first collectors to buy work by many artists, the Vogels offered encouragement at the start of the careers of several figures who went on to achieve considerable acclaim. Among the 31 artists represented by the 50 works given to PAFA are important figures like Robert Barry, Lynda Benglis, Lucio Pozzi, Edda Renouf, Nam June Paik, and Richard Tuttle. A catalogue of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States is available at Portfolio at the Pennsylvania Academy®. Selections from the Permanent Collection Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building July 10 - September 12, 2010 PAFA’s permanent collection has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years through exciting purchases and generous gifts. This dynamic presentation of postwar art will integrate major recent acquisitions with the collection for the first time, including Jules Kirschenbaum’s Woman with Fighting Dogs (1958), Kehinde Wiley’s Three Wise Men Greeting Entry Into Lagos (2008), and Mark Bradford’s Untitled (Dementia) (2009) among other surprises. Large-scale works by Jennifer Bartlett, Leon Golub, Barbara Kruger, Elizabeth Murray, Neil Welliver and others will be included in new juxtapositions that reveal the growing strength and unusual character of PAFA’s postwar collection. Interplay between realism and abstraction, process and material, seriality and autonomy, handmade and assemblage will be explored through dialogues and thematic groupings in the installation. This installation is one in a series of collaborative installations between PAFA’s Curator of Modern Art, Robert Cozzolino and Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art. Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), Three Wise Men Greeting Entry Into Lagos, 2008, Oil on canvas, 71 3/4 x 95 3/4 inches, Frances & Joseph Nash Field Fund, 2009.20 2010-11 Exhibition Challenge Grant Donald R. Caldwell, Chair of PAFA’s Board of Trustees, has issued a challenge grant for the 2010-11 exhibition season. Vice Chair James C. Biddle and trustee Max N. Berry have both made generous contributions and we invite you to contribute to fulfill this challenge. For more information, please contact Louisa Hanshew, Senior Vice President of Development at 215-972-2002 or lhanshew@pafa.org. Member News PAFA Presents Partnering with various cultural institutions throughout Philadelphia, PAFA Presents aims to offer visitors the opportunity to attend a variety of arts events in a vibrant and historic setting, highlighting the breadth of Philadelphia’s cultural and artistic treasures. Performances are free for PAFA members, $10 for non-members. This spring, join us for: The Opera Company Presents: A Taste of Opera, La Traviata Sunday, May 2, 2:00 p.m., Rotunda, Historic Landmark Building The Greater Philadelphia Chorale Sunday, May 16, 2:00 p.m., Rotunda, Historic Landmark Building For information and reservations, contact Alison Campbell-Wise at 215-972-2011 or acampbell@pafa.org. 3
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