Conversation XIV: Water

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

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Conversation XIV: Water
Kris Ercums, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Gallery 405, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Water is timeless…or is it? This installation of works from the Spencer’s collection explores contemporary artists’ perspectives on the elixir of life: H₂0. Many of the works assembled for this installation take a critical approach to the subject matter, exploring pollution and scarcity, whereas others address water symbolically, as a cleansing or destructive force. From this selection of 20th- and 21st-century works, a visual dialogue emerges between the Kaw River of Kansas and the Yangtze of China.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Jean-Claude Severe
circa 1970
Lisa Grossman
2004
Richard Mawdsley
1995–1999
Tony Fitzpatrick, Big Cat Press
2000
Tony Fitzpatrick, Big Cat Press
2000
Tony Fitzpatrick, Big Cat Press
2000
Tony Fitzpatrick, Big Cat Press
2000
Josef Albers
1944
Wanda Hammerbeck
1995
Vija Celmins
2006
DoDo Jin Ming
2001
Chesley K. Bonestell
circa 1949
Ernesto Pujol
2009–2010
Ernesto Pujol
2009–2010

Events

February 22, 2013
Conference
4:00–7:30PM
The Commons
April 6, 2013
Workshop
9:30AM–3:00PM
The Commons
April 6, 2013
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 405
April 7, 2013
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 405
April 12–April 13, 2013
Conference
9:00AM–6:00PM
The Commons
April 13, 2013
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 405
April 20, 2013
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 405
April 21, 2013
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 405
April 26, 2013
Talk
12:00–1:00PM
Gallery 317 Central Court
April 26, 2013
Activity
6:00–8:00PM
April 27, 2013
Activity
10:00AM–4:00PM
Gallery 405
April 28, 2013
Activity
12:00–4:00PM
Gallery 405
May 9, 2013
Talk
5:00–7:00PM
Gallery 405, Gallery 317 Central Court
June 8, 2013
Talk
1:00–2:00PM
Gallery 405

Resources

Documents