Object ID: 2009.002.24 Object Name: Textile Artist/Maker: Unrecorded Bamana artist Culture: Bamana People, Mali Title: Bamana “Mudcloth” Medium: Woven textiles and resist-dye Dimension Details: H-67 W-45 inches On Campus Collection: UWM Art Collection Gift of Mark and Mary Jo Wentzel… Read More
Emile H. Mathis Gallery, Mitchell 170
Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Open Parameters—late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s Chinese calligraphy and painting from the Zhou Cezong’s donation curated by Jingwei Zeng.
This exhibition explores the diversity and heterogeneity of late nineteenth and early twentieth Chinese calligraphy and painting. It suggests that the long-established terms such as “traditionality” and ‘modernity” can no longer be seen as mutually exclusive concepts with fixed characteristics, but rather as fluid categories that existed in the vast crucible of cultural choices—choices made available by the influence of the late Ming literati and Western civilization. It motivates us to understand how open the parameters of cultural discourse were and how accommodating the Chinese cultural repertoire was at that crucial historical moment.
Free Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 13th, 5-7pm
Curator Gallery Talk 5:30pm
Emile H. Mathis Gallery
Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present curated by David Symanzik-Stock. The exhibit will be open until May 11th, 2023 and, as always, the Mathis Gallery is free and open to the public.
Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present explores how reproductions connect us to the past. From Rembrandt restrikes to plastic souvenirs, reproductions occupy an important chapter in an object’s biography. This exhibition explores the complex relationships between ‘original’ artifacts and their reproductions. It considers how this ongoing dialogue blurs the boundaries between materiality and authenticity and, in the process, manifests in our desire to build bridges between the past and the present.
Research on an object from the UWM Art Collection at the the Emile H. Mathis gallery by Mirel Crumb. I had the wonderful opportunity to be able to learn more about an object in the UWM Art Collection at the… Read More
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Guest: Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein
Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Dr. Dorotinsky currently serves as the project leader for Popular Arts, an effort to create a network of scholars both in Latin American and elsewhere whose work deals with contemporary Latin American art and specifically “popular” art objects, i.e. crafts and diseño artisanal. The purpose of the project is to critique and revise accepted categories (as well as definitions, terms, etc.) of these objects. Dr. Dorotinsky and her colleagues argue that these categories are politically contingent, often exploitative, and troublingly institutionalized.
Read Professor Tiffany’s latest post on the website, AGENART, https://agenart.org/blog/.
In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white… Read More
Mark your calendars and join us for Art Exposé during the month of April and first week of May. Mathis Gallery staff interns and gallery staff will discuss a single rarely seen selection from the UWM Art Collection. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 4th at 1:30 pm-2:00 pm
Emma Alburg, Mathis Gallery Undergrad Curatorial Intern
Tuesday, April 11th at 1:00-1:30 pm
Lauren Tomsa, Mathis Gallery Attendant
Tuesday, April 25th at 1:30-2:00 pm
David Symanczik-Stock, Mathis Gallery Graduate Research Intern
Tuesday, April 27th at 1:00-1:30 pm
Katie Batagianis, Mathis Gallery Graduate Curatorial Intern
Tuesday, May 2nd at 1:00-1:30 pm
Morgan Moore, Mathis Gallery Graduate Research Intern
Emile H. Mathis Gallery
Body Bound traces the historically grounded and long-standing tradition of using bodily material as the basis for bookmaking. This practice has not subsided entirely in its traditional form but has also branched off and informed contemporary book-making practices. Contemporary books, specifically artist books, are a part of a longer history of using and presenting bodies with books. This exhibition includes historical books and contemporary artist books from the UWM special collections as well as the John Michael Kohler Art Foundation.
Rachel Allison’s thesis exhibition opens February 23rd from 5-7pm with curator remarks at 5:30pm.
Exhibition runs through April 1, 2023
Hours: Mon – Thurs: 10 AM – 4 PM
Women played crucial roles in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration as artists, researchers, and administrators. This lecture focuses on the women who worked for the Index of American Design, a WPA project that celebrated early American… Read More