Exhibitions Archive
SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD—Believe It or Not!
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson, an internationally regarded American artist who represented the United States at the 2003 Venice Biennale, is best known for compelling installations using objects from a museum's permanent collection to critically examine the practice of collecting art and its attendant issue of cultural representation. Wilson draws upon familiar curatorial practices to refashion and rearrange museum objects into unusual displays that might divulge otherwise veiled stories of racism, stereotyping, and marginalization in local or institutional histories. Through SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD, Fred Wilson features works from the Hood's permanent collection in a provocative site-specific installation that concludes the museum's yearlong celebration of twenty years in its Charles Moore building.
Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art
Celebrating Twenty Years
The Hood Museum of Art's collections at Dartmouth College, like many other museum collections, are varied and idiosyncratic, and many of its greatest riches stem from the imagination and collecting impulses of individual curators and donors. Celebrating Twenty Years showcases exceptional works of art that have been generously offered by Dartmouth alumni and friends as recent outright and promised gifts to the museum in honor of twenty years of the Hood Museum of Art in the postmodern building designed by Charles Moore and Centerbrook Architects. These important gifts will greatly enhance the museum collections and highlight the tremendous generosity of Dartmouth friends and alumni. In addition, they will expand the museum's ability to provide Dartmouth students and faculty and all visitors to the museum with direct and meaningful encounters with original works of art.
A Digital Wonder Room by MANUAL
Archive Fever
Husband-and-wife digital artist team Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, known collectively as MANUAL, presented their latest work, a site-specific installation commissioned by the Hood on the occasion of the museum’s twentieth anniversary. Reconsidering the intersections between art history, culture, and technology, this work explores the museum’s vast collection in playful and unexpected ways. Archive Fever unfolds at a changing pace that is completely determined by the computer program itself, so it is unlikely that repeat visitors to the museum would ever see the same form twice.
Relooking at Photographs, Deciphering the Details
The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly
Drawn from Nature
The complete plant lithograph series of Ellsworth Kelly will be on view in this exhibition, documenting the artist's forty years of creating a rich variety of line drawings of plants, fruits, and flowers with exceptional simplicity and beauty. An American artist of world renown, Ellsworth Kelly, born in 1923, is distinguished for his pure minimalist style. The sixty lithographs featured in this exhibition provide a critical link to the artist's vision of nature and his practice of abstraction.
Gifts of Works on Paper from Harrington Sarah-Ann and Werner Kramarsky
The Mark of Minimalism
To complement Marks of Distinction, this exhibition follows the influence of minimalism over the past three decades. The Mark of Minimalism examines the lasting legacy of minimalist forms and visual strategies on the abstract work of some recent and contemporary artists, who, rather than completely denying process, often embrace the artist's mark and its expressive qualities. All of the works that will be on display were gifted to the Hood Museum of Art by Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, parents of Ann Kramarsky 92.