The El Paso Museum of Art announces New Perspectives: Hidden Masterpieces Visiting Scholar Lecture Series 2009:
"God the Father"
presented by Dr. Babette Bohn December 10, 2009 at 6:00 pm in the El Paso Energy Auditorium
Please join us on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:00 pm for a lecture by Dr. Babette Bohn in the El Paso Energy Auditorium as we continue to explore the Museum’s permanent collection. This winter, visiting scholars will participate in a continuation of New Perspectives: Hidden Masterpieces, a lecture series that considers topics related to the Museum’s late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art. In her lecture Dr. Bohn will discuss the work of Lodovico Carracci, God the Father, 1555 - 1619, oil on panel, which is on view in the European Gallery. This lecture is free to the public. Seating is limited to 212 people and is on a first come, first served basis.
Biography
Dr. Babette Bohn is a Professor at Texas Christian University (TCU). She is a specialist in Italian art, with a Ph.D from Columbia University, an M.A. from Boston University, and a B.A. from Northwestern University. She has published widely on Bolognese prints, drawings, and paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including most recently Ludovico Carracci and the Art of Drawing. Other recent publications have focused on the women artists of Bologna and on the portrayal of Old Testament and Apocryphal heroines in Italian art. She is currently preparing an exhibition for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy on drawings by Guido Reni and his followers. Dr. Bohn has received both the Dean’s Teaching Award and the College of Fine Arts’ Teaching Award. She teaches courses on European Renaissance and Baroque art, Women and the Visual Arts, the History of the Print, and Drawing as Artistic Invention. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
This program was underwritten by the El Paso Museum of Membership.
Image Credit:
Follower of Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619)
God the Father (ca. 1600)
Oil on panel, 29 ½ x 24 ½
El Paso Museum of Art, Gift of the Summerlee Foundation
For more information please call (915) 532-1707
The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) presents
japAN/AMerica: Anime, Manga, and Art
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at the El Paso Museum of Art, in the Energy Auditorium
Anime is an abbreviated pronunciation of "animation," referring to animation originating in Japan. Manga consists of comics and print cartoons that conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. Both have origins dating from as far back as the 18th and 19th centuries through the post-WWII era.
Stacy Schultz Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Art History at UTEP, and Polly Perez, Assistant Curator of Education at EPMA, will give a lecture and presentation about the emergence and influence of Japanese Anime and Manga in Contemporary Art and Culture, with an overview of Japanese Art that led to a unique aesthetic movement that seems to be taking over the world.
Anime and Manga are more than a pop-culture phenomenon but aesthetic works with long standing and profound historical and socio-cultural relevance in Japan, as well as a lucrative commercial export.
The presentation will feature a selection of images from Films, Narrative Fiction, Animation, Contemporary Art, Performance Art, and Art History - with particular focus on the work of Takashi Murakami as an example of the convergence of "Pop," History, and Art. The El Paso Museum of Art currently has a sculptural piece from Mr. Murakami on display in the Museum store with corresponding merchandise and books available for purchase.
Admission to this event is FREE.
Teachers, High School, and College students are encouraged to attend.
The El Paso Museum of Art educational programs are dedicated to presenting new insights about art to the community. Please call EPMA at 532-1707 ext. 23 for more information on this or other educational programming, or visit our website at www.elpasoartmuseum.org.
The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso, and The El Paso Museum of Art present a lecture
"Unreal Cities - Informal Architecture Zone"
by Emilio Said Thursday, November 12, 2009
Emilio Said CONTEXTUAL/ZONE ZONA CONTEXTUAL, 2007
Oil, photo and polyester on wood
Courtesy of the artist and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Please join us on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:00 pm for the lecture "Unreal Cities - Informal Architecture Zone" by artist Emilio Said. Seating is limited and is on a first come, first served basis. This event is free to the public. A reception will follow. Please call (915) 532-1707 for information.
Emilio Said: Unreal Cities (November 8, 2009 - January 10, 2010)
This exhibition consists of twenty-two formal abstractions. The works are created in different media, including painting, photography, blueprints, and charts. These generate visual fields that create a different meaning of the surrounding space, matching the preconceived notions of the pictorial space, and transforming them into a metropolis which in turn becomes its own abstraction.
EMILIO SAID:
Born in Mexico City in 1970, Mr. Said presently lives and works there. He is a member of the National System of Creators and has previously been an artist in residence in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Said’s work is exhibited in private collections and museums internationally.
This exhibition and lecture are made possible by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso, the El Paso Museum of Art, Museums and Cultural Affairs Department, and the City of El Paso.
