Final Week to View Two Exhibitions

Brian Dickerson (American), Roseboom, 2011, oil, wax, mixed media on canvas and wood, 71 x 32 x 6 1/2 inches, courtesy of the artist

This is the final week to view two exhibitions at the Art Museum. Brian Dickerson: Constructed Paintings and Drawings and Woven Traditions: Native American Basketry of the Southwest will be on view through Saturday, April 21.

Dickerson explores the idea of remembered landscapes through minimal, three-dimensional paintings on wood. The heavily layered and reworked surfaces contain hidden forms that suggest deep emotional meaning and a sense of mystery.

Woven Traditions: Native American Basketry of the Southwest, features the Art Museum's collection of baskets made by the Navajo, Hopi and Tohono O'odham tribes. The baskets depict elaborate, traditional and contemporary designs, including turtles, spiders, butterflies and kachinas.

The Art Museum is open 10 am to 5 pm, Monday - Saturday with extended hours on Monday evenings until 9 pm. Admission is free. For more information on exhibitions, please call 307.766.6622 or visit our website.

Final Week to See Two Great Exhibitions

This is the view looking up into the center of the spiral in Etsuko Ichikawa's installation at the UW Art Museum.

This is the final week to view two exhibitions at the UW Art Museum. Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865): Japanese Kabuki Portraits from the Art Museum Collection and Etsuko Ichikawa: NACHI - between the eternal and the ephemeral - will be open through Saturday.

Featured in the Rotunda Gallery, Kunisada's color woodblock prints of Japanese Kabuki theater actors are an important visual record of these individuals who might otherwise only be known by name today. While some of Kunisada's contemporaries such as Hokusai and Hiroshige might better known today, in 19th century Japan, Kunisada was regarded as one of the most prolific, profitably, and successful artists of the time.

Etsuko Ichikawa's installation, NACHI has been popular with visitors who enjoy the different atmosphere she has created in the gallery with the spiral of scorched cotton threads, audio components, video of dancers, and the 14 foot long pyrographs (drawings made from the mark of molten glass on paper). Ichikawa was inspired by the Nachi waterfall in Japan, which has been regarded as a shrine for generations.

Come visit the Art Museum before these two exhibitions close! We're open 10 am - 5 pm today through Saturday and admission is always free!

Two New Exhibitions Open This Saturday

Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1865), Kabuki Toto 36 Scenes, 19th century, color woodcut, 14-13/16 x 10-3/16 inches, Purchased by the Friends of the UW Art Museum, University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, 1980.133

Two new exhibitions featuring work from the Art Museum permanent collection will open this Saturday, April 9. Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) Japanese Kabuki Portraits from the Art Museum Collection features woodblock prints by one of the most popular and prolific artists of 19th century Japan. Kunisada’s yakusha-e, or kabuki actor portraits, first appeared in 1808-09 and became his main subject matter. His productivity was extraordinary as it is estimated he produced between 20,000 to 25,000 designs for woodblock prints during his lifetime. Because of artists such as Kunisada, the kabuki actors might only be known by name to modern scholarship without this visual record.

From the Scottish Sublime to the American West: Selected Works from the University of Wyoming explores the relationship between the romantic and sublime landscapes of the British artists of the 18th and 19th century and the early American landscape traditions of the 19th century. The exhibition has been organized in conjunction with The Ninth International Scott Conference, Walter Scott: Sheriff and Outlaw, at UW from July 5-9, 2011.

The Art Museum is open on Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and admission is free. For more information about exhibitions, please call 307.766.6622.