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James Turrell: Knowing Light
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Brian Jungen: Cetology
La Belle Epoque: Evoking Proust's Place and TimeCrosscurrents at a Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection
North Galleries
July 12, 2003 – September 21, 2003
“Crosscurrents” was a portrait of diverse international art practice with an emphasis on painting and photography by emerging to mid-career artists. Olafur Eliasson’s photographs of natural wonders in his native Iceland are infused with a sense of the scientific and the sublime. Gregory Crewdson’s staged landscapes explore the dark side of suburbia.
Paintings in the exhibition ranged from process-based works by Ingrid Calame, who traces the shapes and stains on sidewalks, transferring them to aluminum in enamel, to figuration, as in Laylah Ali’s gouaches, inhabited by cartoon-like figues engaged in scenarios suggestive of racial oppression, and to Kurt Kauper’s highly realistic rendering of an imagined opera diva.
“Crosscurrents” celebrated the energy, sense of exploration, and the perpetual diversity of contemporary art. The exhibition premiered at the Henry Art Gallery and subsequently travels to Chicago, West Palm Beach, and Tampa.