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    • Louisiana State University Museum of Art
 
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ALEXANDRIA MUSEUM OF ART

APRIL 12 – JUNE 15, 2013An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of GuildHallMuseum

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, 1967, screenprint, 36″x 35,” Guild Hall Museum, bequest of Tito Spiga Bequest 91.8.6 © 2012 The Andy WarholFoundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.Marilyn Monroe™; Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights: The Estate of MarilynMonroe, LLC marilylnmonroe.com 

Guild Hall on Long Island’s East End represents a long history as a gathering place for artists and intellectuals. The close proximity to the avant-garde circles of New York City and intense beauty of the area haslured America’s most prominent artists. The exhibition includes Hudson RiverSchool painter Thomas Moran, Regionalist George Bellows, leading proponents of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, contemporary artist Chuck Close, and Louisiana-native Lynda Benglis, among many others! The exhibition was organized by the GuildHallMuseum, East Hampton, NY, in association with Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

Learn more about the artists from the Guild Hall exhibition!

Thursday, April 25, 6:00pm: “Pollock” Film Screening

Thursday, May 2, 6:00pm: “Shock of the New”Film Screening of Robert Hughes’ documentaries on Expressionism and Pop Art

Food and beverages will be provided

March 22-May 25, 2013

 

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans

Thomas Woodruff’s Freak Parade

June 26-October 24, 2010 

 

Thomas Woodruff’s Freak Parade is an ambitious and dazzling parade of images that celebrates beauty in aberrance. The Parade’s hapless yet noble characters march gaily across a black expanse, each member on a different panel. This exhibition includes 34 large scale drawing/paintings, each of which is rendered in detail and delicately embellished with tiny rhinestones. 

Thomas Woodruff began this project in late 2000 as a reaction against the global standardization of culture. A master of hybridizing vocabularies from the past and present, Woodruff references sideshow banners, Pompeian wall frescoes, baroque religious paintings, theatrical posters, and Victorian penmanship charts to create a new yet oddly familiar world. Each image has a caption, title, or poem included. Written by the artist, these texts add another level of meaning to the pictures. They are deliberately subdued and darkened, and subvert the viewer’s usual response- so conditioned through advertising-to image and text. 

Freak Parade was recently shown at University Galleries at Illinois State University, University Art Museum at California State University, Herron Galleries at Herron School of Art and Design, Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design, and Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. Woodruff has had over 20 one-person exhibitions, and his work has been seen in museum shows internationally. He has contributed award-winning illustrations to every major periodical in America, and has created book jackets for novels by Anne Tyler, Robertson Davies, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and many others. Woodruff worked as a tattooist in the late 1980s, and he has a cult status in the alternate art scene. He is presently the chair of the Department of Illustration and Cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in New York. A documentary on this project, Thomas Woodruff’s FREAK PARADE, was produced in 2004 for Gallery HDTV. 

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