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Focus Gallery, Becker Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Halford GallerySelected Works
About
Offering new insight into his artistic practice, and organized in close collaboration with the artist, Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective is the first-ever comprehensive examination of the prints of Richard Tuttle. In exploiting the unique possibilities of multiple printmaking processes, Tuttle reveals his deep interest in the relationship between medium, tools, actions, and collaboration. Through a selection of more than 100 works from the 1970s to today, many of which have never been exhibited by a museum, the exhibition demonstrates how Tuttle reinvents printmaking with his experimental approach, raising intriguing questions about technique, materiality, and the nature of art itself.
Bowdoin College Students gave tours of the exhibition from July 1 through August 15 on Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Major support for this exhibition has been provided by the Devonwood Foundation, Eric ’85 and Svetlana Silverman, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Coco Kim and Richard Schetman P’13, halley k. harrisburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld, Thomas A. McKinley ’06, and the Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund at Bowdoin College. Additional support has been provided by Agnes Gund, Mary G. O’Connell ’76 and Peter J. Grua ’76, an anonymous donor, and the membership of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The publication has been generously supported by Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich; C. G. Boerner LLC, New York/Düsseldorf; Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA; Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund; Gemini G.E.L. LLC, Los Angeles, CA; Pace Gallery, New York; Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, NY; as well as by private collectors and supporters, in particular Barbara Egli and Ursula Hodel.
RELATED PROGRAMS
Fall Programs
September 18, 2014 | 4:30 p.m. | Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
“‘A Chance to be Aware’: On Richard Tuttle’s Art”
Dr. Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director, Center for the Study of Modernism, The University of Texas at Austin, who has written about Richard Tuttle’s work and interviewed the artist publicly, addresses the philosophical and perceptual aspects of “awareness” in Tuttle’s art.
Free. RSVPs are requested but not required. You may RSVP here.
September 23, 2014 | 4:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: “Printing with Richard Tuttle: Process and Collaboration”
Greg Burnet, master printer and publisher at Burnet Editions, New York is a frequent collaborator with Richard Tuttle. Presenting rarely seen studio sketches, printing plates, and color proofs, he gives a full account of the making of some of Richard Tuttle’s most acclaimed prints. Presented in conjunction with Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective.
“Richard Tuttle: The Theater of Attention”
Susan Tallman, editor-in-chief, Art in Print discusses Richard Tuttle’s contribution to the field of contemporary printmaking. Tallman is the author of The Contemporary Print: From Pre-Pop to Postmodern (1996) and wrote an essay for the exhibition catalog. She is a member of the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Presented in conjunction with Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective. RSVPs are requested, but not required.
Watch the video recording of the October 2 lecture here.
October 2, 2014 | 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Fall Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Celebrate exhibitions at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art including Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective; Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth; Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum; and Alison de Vere: Psyche and Eros.
October 8, 2014 | 12:00 noon | Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Gallery Conversation: Drawing a Line from Tuttle to Goltzius
The prints of Hendrick Goltzius and Richard Tuttle will come to life in a gallery talk led by Carrie Scanga, assistant professor of art, and Joachim Homann, curator at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
October 9, 2014 | 6:30 p.m. | Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Thursday Night Salon: Minimalist Music in the Museum
George Lopez, Beckwith Artist in Residence, Bowdoin College will offer an evening of minimalist works by Philip Glass, Arvo Part, and John Adams. Like Tuttle’s use of elemental objects such as paper, wire, or plastic bags, minimalist composers of “The Age of Protest” conceptualized a radically repetitive music in the 1960s using the simplest of musical motives as a reaction to the elaborate and labyrinthian music matrices of Schoenberg, Babbitt and Boulez.
Limited Seating. Free tickets required. Tickets will be available at the Museum Shop beginning on September 2.
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