March 29, 2012- May 25, 2012
Reception Thursday, March 29th, 5pm
Featuring Tamarind artists associated with the hard-edge/color field movement that swept the art world in the 1960s and 70s
Link: http://tamarind.unm.edu

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UNM Art Museum, UNM Center for the Arts

JOEL-PETER WITKIN (American, b. 1939) remains one of the most innovative and controversial living photographers who is best known for his provocative tableaux that are highly symbolic amalgamations and contemporary versions of the medieval tradition of the momento mori; that is, images that serve to remind the viewer of her/his own mortality. Witkin's oeuvre is distinguished, perhaps like no other in the international pantheon of vanguard photography, through his constructed versions of heaven and hell, suffering and deliverance, morbidity and beauty laced with Christian iconography and pagan myth.

His photographs typically present—through intricately constructed studio sets / environments—dwarfs, persons with various physical malformations, beautiful women, beautiful men, various body parts including severed heads and whole cadavers, (with elements typical of Renaissance and Baroque still life painting referencing Caravaggio, Velasquez, Goya, and Courbet) in multi-layered settings replete with lush drapery, fruits, animal horns, mirrors, chains, masks, and skulls that serve to describe his darkly fantastic vision. The aura of the photographs are enhanced by deliberate manipulation of the surface to make them appear aged, an act that comments on the nature of the photographic image by calling into question its permanency.

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University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

MONDAY FEBRUARY 27
Public Lecture "The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Christian Multiculturalism in the Levant"
host: Dr. Justine Andrews
5:30 pm Science and Math Learning Center Room 102
Reception to follow

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28
UNM Institute for Medieval Studies - Work-in-Progress series "Chrysography on the Drapery of the Virgin -- Icon to Altarpiece in the 13th Century"
host: Dr. Justine Andrews
12:30 pm History Commons

Guest Lecture in ARTH 432/532 Islamic Art and Architecture "Crusader Holy Places and 12th century Pilgrimage Art in the Holy Land"
2pm Center for the Arts, Room 1020

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New prints by Dan Brice, Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet, Amy Cutler, Jim Dine, Valerie Hammond, Hung Liu, James Siena, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith back from their successful New York City debut.
Link: http://tamarind.unm.edu

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