MEMORIAL ART GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER APRIL/MAY 2018

ART BRIDGESDAVID HOCKNEY ARRIVES

Javier Téllez, NOSFERATU (The Undead) (still, detail), 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.

JAVIER TÉLLEZNOSFERATU (THE UNDEAD)

V O I C E SI’m Jason. I’m around the MAG a lot. Maybe you’ve seen me as a student, as a teacher, or crafting at a recent event. In whatever capacity, I like to help make things fun. Creativity is what makes the world go round—that and coffee.

This place is important to me because I remember coming here as a kid, taking

classes in the Creative Workshop and walking through the art galleries with my parents. I was so excited about making art that I chose to study Studio Art at Nazareth College, which gave me the opportunity to learn from amazing artists including Kathy Calderwood and Mitch Messina. Following Naz, I built a career as a tattoo artist and bodypainter; I’ve even had my reality show 15 minutes of fame on Skin Wars: Fresh Paint with Ru Paul. For the first time last year, I exhibited at MAG’s Clothesline Festival and the experience was eye opening. I plan to do it again, and for as long as I can, to bring beauty to this world.

Usually, you’ll find me making something. I’ve just launched a studio with my friend and colleague Rose Van Tyne in the Hungerford Building (studio 423). Please visit us! We open up every First Friday or Second Saturday. To sum it all up, I am thrilled knowing I’m a part of this creative museum. If another child or adult, or for that matter creature with multiple appendages, finds themselves getting a little of the creative spirit, the technical know-how, or the inspiration from interacting with me, I’m pleased.

Jason FergusonCeramics Instructor, Creative Workshop

Memorial Art Gallery | 500 University Avenue | Rochester, NY 14607

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Thursday, April 57:00 PMMicroscopic to Monumental: Origami in Wood, Bronze, and Steel G. Milton Wing Lecture with Dr. Robert J. Lang. Dr. Lang is one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics. Free with museum admission. The G. Milton Wing Lectures are supported by the University of Rochester Department of Mathematics.

Sunday, April 8Last day to see Rosalyn A. Engleman: Beauty is Everywhere

Wednesday, April 184:30–7:00 PMEspecially for Educators: Creating Digital Exhibitions and Portfolios Join UR Librarians Joe Easterly and Kim Hoffman in a participatory workshop where you will learn creative applications using Omeka software. This will be a hands-on evening where we plan and build a digital exhibition. Art; Social Studies; ELA; IT Teachers, Librarians. Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, cander35@mag.rochester.edu

Saturday, April 218:00–11:00 PMNOSFERATU (The Undead) Opening Party Open to all museum members. Contact Bella Clemente to register. 585.276.8942, bclemente@mag.rochester.edu

Sunday, April 222:00 PMMeet the Artist: Javier Téllez in conversation with W.J.T. Mitchell Artist Javier Téllez will discuss his recent commission for MAG and the connection between cinema and mental health with the eminent scholar and theorist W. J. T. Mitchell. Free with museum admission. The Distingu ished Visiting Humanist program is supported by the University of Rochester Humanities Center.

Monday, April 236:00–9:00 PMEmily Sibley Watson Society Dinner with Javier Téllez Exclusive dinner with artist Javier Téllez and director Jonathan Binstock. Open to Emily Sibley Watson Society Members. Contact Bella Clemente to register. 585.276.8942, bclemente@mag.rochester.edu

Saturday, April 286:00–11:45 PMAn Artists' Affair An evening celebration bringing awareness and support to an important initiative, the MAG-RCSD’s Expanded Learning Collaboration. An evening of wining, dining, bidding, and collecting! $200/person, Call 585.276.8942 for tickets.

Sunday, April 292:00–3:00 PMAncient Egyptian History Mirrored in Temples Celebrate National Volunteer Recognition Month and enjoy a lecture with retired UR Chemistry Professor Samir Farid. Open to docents, volunteers and the public (with museum admission) Contact Maryanne Monley for information, 585.276.8984, mmonley@mag.rochester.edu

Thursday, May 37:00 PMLecture by Larry Merrill Larry Merrill will talk about Wards of Time, the Lockhart Gallery exhibition of his photographs of Greek and Roman antiquities

Wednesday, May 94:30–7:00 PMEspecially for Educators: Articulate! Conversations Between Art and Voice Come explore the potential of art and word in this workshop that focuses on Poets Walk and MAG’s collection. Docent, poet and teacher Kitty Jospé will share ideas on creative writing using art and word as tools for heightening understanding through sharpened attention. Art; Social Studies; ELA; IT Teachers, Librarians Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, canderson@mag.rochester.edu

Thursday, May 17Trip to Toronto to see Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors Travel to AGO with director Jonathan Binstock to see this extremely popular exhibition in Toronto. The exhibition features Yayoi Kusama’s mesmerizing infinity mirror rooms, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the 1950s to the present. Open to Watson and Monet Society Members. Contact Bella Clemente to register. 585.276.8942, bclemente@mag.rochester.edu

Tuesday, May 296:00–9:00 PMDirector’s Circle Spring Lecture with Dr. Robert B. Simon Join us to hear Dr. Robert Simon, art consultant, tell the story behind discovering Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. Open to all Director's Circle Level Members. Contact Bella Clemente to register. 585.276.8942, bclemente@mag.rochester.edu

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CENTERFOLD: Izzy Robinson with bronze sculpture from Centennial Sculpture Park, Creation Myth (detail). Tom Otterness, 2012.

ONGOINGTHURSDAYS 5:00–9:00 PM1/2 Price Admission

Docent-led tours - 6:00 PM

No docent-led tours on April 19 and May 17

MAG DeTOURSM - 6:00 PM/$10 (includes museum admission) Purchase tickets online: mag.rochester.edu/events/detours/ April 19: Animals in Art DeTOUR

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(in collaboration with Seneca Park Zoo)

May 17: Game of Thrones and the MAGsocial DeTOURSM

Third Thursday Organ Concerts - 7:30 PM April 19: 18th-Century Organ Concertos

May 17: Baroque Brass

Special Events - 7:00 PM April 12: Hidden Passions (free with museum admission) Dr. Hal Kanthor: Pediatrician/Gilbert & Sullivan collector Danielle Ponder: Attorney/Musician

April 19: Alternative Music Film (free) May 17: Alternative Music Film (free)

Art Social - 6:15 PM/$20 (includes museum admission)

April 5: Calming Contours April 12: Playing with Pointillism April 19: Mysterious Space April 26: Zentangles with Color and Dimension May 3: Quick Prints May 10: Lavish Landscapes May 17: Meditative Mandalas May 24: Pick Your Portrait May 31: Fancy Flowers

Food & drink available for purchase from Brown Hound Downtown

Gallery Store shopping

FRIDAYS 1:00 PMDocent-led tour of the museum and collectionFree with museum admission

$5 Friday!5:00–9:00 PM April 6

May 4:

SATURDAYS Noon–2:00 PMKids Create Dates - $10/ChildFun hands-on art projects for kids fromages 4–14 inside MAG’s front entrance

SUNDAYS 1:00 PMDocent-led tour of the museum and collectionFree with museum admission May 13: Special Mother's Day Tour 1:00 PM & 3:00 PMGoing For Baroque Organ ConcertsFree with museum admission

• Live performance by Jimmy Highsmith Jr. • Dick Kane speaks about his show in the Lucy Burne Gallery (5:00 PM)• Book talk and signing with Alan and Paul Singer on their book

Arthur Singer: The Wildlife Art of an American Master (7:00 PM)• Art Social - Inspired by Mexican paper cutting (Papel picado) / Cinco

de Mayo (6:15–7:45 PM/$15 | includes museum admission)

• Interactive performance by Martin Freeman titled Heretical Potato Synthesizers.

• Art Social - Colorful landscapes inspired by David Hockney (6:15–7:45 PM) ($15 | includes museum admission)

Consulting Senior Curator of Media Arts John G. Hanhardt

has been leading the effort to commission a series of works of art for MAG since early 2016. Inspired by the history, culture, and politics of Rochester and our region, this series, “Reflections on Place,” makes its premiere with a new work by artist Javier Téllez: NOSFERATU (The Undead), a film installation that focuses on cinema and mental illness.

Téllez’s film is a nod to Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, the silent expressionist masterpiece directed by F. W. Murnau in 1922. Téllez made his work in collaboration with people living with mental illness after a series of workshops that he conducted on the subjects of vampirism and the representation of psychiatric institutions in film. Combining black-and-white 16mm film and color digital imagery, NOSFERATU (The Undead) was shot at the Eastman Kodak factory, the Dryden Theatre of the George Eastman Museum, and the Main Street Armory, all in Rochester. “We chose a vampire for the main character of the film,” said Téllez, “because we wanted to reflect on light and darkness as the fundamental principles of cinema, and to focus on those who are stigmatized by being different and condemned to invisibility.”

The mise en scène of NOSFERATU (The Undead) comprises a ‘’film inside a film,’’ juxtaposing scenes

from Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens with additional scenes that Téllez developed with his collaborators who act as fictional patients in a set representing a ward at an insane asylum circa 1960. Téllez shows his associates simultaneously as actors and spectators of their own film. This reversal of roles is a recurrent motif in the artist’s work, and it is a way to destabilize preconceived notions about the perception of mental illness. NOSFERATU (The Undead) also mixes documentary and fiction, including aspects of the manufacturing of celluloid film at the Kodak factory. It documents a performance of the internationally renowned silent film accompanist Philip C. Carli, the George Eastman Museum’s resident musician, who provides a superb piano accompaniment for Murnau’s silent film.

Javier Téllez’s film projects involve close collaborative ventures with disenfranchised communities, such as psychiatric patients or people with disabilities, allowing them to participate in the creative process in order to produce a dignified and non-stereotyped image of themselves. Combining different approaches with filmmaking, Téllez opens a dialogue that provides a fresh interpretation of classical myths, private and collective memories, and historical references.

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OPPOSITE: Javier Téllez, NOSFERATU (The Undead) (still, detail), 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Please welcome a very special guest to our museum: David Hockney’s 15 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon

(1998). This spectacular painting is on loan to MAG from Art Bridges, a nonprofit foundation established by arts patron and philanthropist Alice Walton dedicated to providing audiences throughout the United States with access to outstanding works of art.

The British artist David Hockney based this gridded painting on a 1986 photo-collage of his view from a ledge on the south rim of the Canyon at Powell Point. By choosing the iconic Grand Canyon as a subject, he invokes the long association between America’s grand landscapes and its citizens’ sense of national pride.

This installation of 15 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon (1998) in MAG’s Nancy and Alan Cameros Gallery of 19th-Century American Art is the newest addition to the modern and contemporary interventions staged throughout our historical collections. In the coming months, we will invite our visitors to share their feedback on the conversations this painting has started at MAG. What kind of similarities do you see between the Hockney and the more traditional American landscapes like Albert Bierstadt’s The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California (1865), which was painted over a century earlier? How does juxtaposing contemporary and historical works affect the way you experience art at MAG? Let us know. We would love to hear from you!

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SPECIALGUEST

JESSICA MARTEN | CURATOR IN CHARGE/CURATOR OF AMERICAN ART

ABOVE: David Hockney, 15 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon, 1998. Oil on canvas, 66 1/2 x 65 1/2 in. Image courtesy of Art Bridges.

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CREATIVE WORKSHOPMEMORIAL ART GALLERYWRITTEN BY RACHAEL BALDANZA | CREATIVE WORKSHOP CURRICULUM DIRECTOR

The Creative Workshop is—and has been for generations—a place where Rochesterians have learned to draw, paint, sculpt and more! In the past few years we have come to see extraordinary value in the SHORT workshop. By definition, a SHORT is a hands-on art class for which no prior experience is needed. SHORTS meet once or twice in our well-appointed studios and derive inspiration from our museum’s collections. In this day and age of busy schedules, these programs are easier commitments to make. In recent years, we launched both Art Social and Kids Create Dates. Maybe you’ve attended a sipping and painting program out in the community, or brought your children to a play date at a creative location. What makes our programs unique is our attention to creative conversation, inspiring settings, and good responsive instruction from teaching artists. You won’t make the same artwork as someone else in our programs; you’ll express yourself with originality! Every Thursday night MAG hosts a creative gathering with a special theme (always listed on our website) with two encouraging and knowledgeable teaching artists. With our unparalleled experience planning creative environments, we’ve designed Art Socials, where groups or individuals not only make art but also friends.

This year, we're adding a number of

other exciting SHORTS for adults. For spring, there are courses in stained glass... (make a suncatcher using the same techniques Tiffany used), jewelry making, or colorful yarn dyeing. We’re also encouraging you to drop everything and draw! Our Drop & Draw program meets twice and builds your observational and sketching skills in and around the galleries and grounds.

Last year, we started Kids Create Dates, a drop-in, friendly, custom art studio for kids as young as 4 and as old as 14. Now we also offer Start with Art; OK, It’s Fabulous Art Project Time, and tours and activities for groups. These special programs inspire and teach art-making skills and strategies in as short as two hours. Start with Art is on Wednesday and Thursday mornings, and OK, It’s Fabulous Art Project Time and Kids Create Dates are on Saturday afternoons. For the Tour & Activity program, we will gladly work with you to arrange a perfect program for your group. Join us and make art you are proud of!

CREATIVE WORKSHOPMEMORIAL ART GALLERY

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at the Creative Workshop’s Lucy Burne Gallery

April 12−May 11, 2018 Please join us for an Opening Reception

April 19, 5:30-7:30 PM

May 3 (11:00 AM-NOON): Dick Kane will speak in the Auditorium and then walk through his show in the Lucy Burne Gallery

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