Conversation V: Alternate Realities
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Conversation V: Alternate Realities
Jessica Lea Johnson, curator
April 4, 2009–July 26, 2009
20/21 Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Is a photograph real? What about a Realist painting? Would you categorize an online virtual world as reality? What about the learning or the human interactions which take place within that world?
Exhibition images
Works of art
Francis Bernard Shields
Cold Inferno,
circa 1939
C. Ronald Bechtle
Dreams of the Poet,
1965
Orval Hixon
Cleveland Bronner,
1920
Albert Y. Wong
untitled,
1974
Joseph Judd Pennell
Nellie Martin and Friend,
1905
Elliott Erwitt
Duane Michals
Rene Magritte,
1966
Constantine Manos
Alex Ebel
N.Y. to Frisco: Minutes by Rocket,
circa 1953
Suzanne Klotz
Carol,
1980
Jon Blumb; Joseph Judd Pennell
Madame Sperber Group,
1906
Arthur S. Siegel
Right of Assembly,
1939
O. Winston Link
William Harper
unrecorded Hopi artist
Aya (rattle runner katsina),
mid-late 1900s
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; Landfall Press; Jack Lemon; Steve Campbell; Sarah Pavlus
Ghost Dance Dress,
2001
Kay WalkingStick; Landfall Press; Jack Lemon; Steve Campbell; Sarah Pavlus; Marion Karl
Night Magic,
2001
James Casebere
Nevisian Underground #2,
2001
Nikki S. Lee
The Hip Hop Project (2),
2001
Janice Atkins
Self-portrait in a T.V. Set #1,
circa 1983
Richard Hamilton
Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon,
1970–1971
Loretta Lux
Martha,
2004
Sarah Anne Johnson
The Raft,
2003–2004
Lori Nix
Circleville,
2000
Lori Nix
Train Derailment,
1998
Lori Nix
wayang golek (rod puppet),
late 1800s–1979
unrecorded Hopi artist
nangasohu (chasing star katsina),
late 1800s–1981
unrecorded Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) or Salish artist
mask,
late 1800s–1926