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exhibition_title:
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Nancy Spero: selected works from Codex Artaud 1971-1972
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exhibition_dates:
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November 3 - December 13, 2001
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exhibition_year:
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2001
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exhibition_location:
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University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
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exhibition_curator:
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Lasse B. Antonsen
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exhibition_note:
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Lasse B. Antonsen is Director of the University Art Gallery and teaches in the Art History and the Graduate departments. He has studied art history at Copenhagen University in Denmark and at Tufts University, where he received his MA with a thesis focusing on the Art of Picasso in the 1930s. Antonsen is a former curator of the Danforth Museum of Art, where he curated exhibitions of the work of, among others, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Alberto Giacometti and Henri Michaux. He also commissioned the permanent installation, Mirror's Way, by Mary Miss. Antonsen has taught art history at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and thesis writing and graduate seminars at the Rhode Island School of Design. As Director of the University Art Gallery, Antonsen has curated, or presented, exhibitions of artists such as Ilya Kabakov, Paula Rego, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, Mark Dion, Ana Mendieta and Pedro Cabrita Reis. Antonsen has written articles and reviews for magazines such as Speculum, Sculpture, Art New England and Harvard Review. The December 2003 issue of the magazine, Sculpture, published a review by Antonsen of an exhibition by the Austrian sculptor, Franz West, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. Antonsen has participated and presented at many symposia and conferences, most recently (2004) at the NEMLA Conference in Pittsburgh. His talk was related to the New Bedford Cabinet of Natural History project, and was on the role of contemporary art installations and on the role of the natural history museum in contemporary Belgian and French comic books. Antonsen has also given presentations on the work of the Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, at MIT in Cambridge, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Center in Santa Fe, and at the Arken Museum in Copenhagen. A text on Per Kirkeby's work in the 1960's was published in 1992 by Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne, Germany. Lasse B. Antonsen has served on the selection committee for Fellows at the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, on the Advisory Board for the Public Arts Project of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and on other university, arts organization, educational, city, and university advisory boards and committees.
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exhibition_genre:
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collage and mix media
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resourceID:
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12nsswca_nancy_spero_catalog
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resource_type:
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book - exhibition catalog
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copyright notice:
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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credit line:
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UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
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artist name:
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Spero, Nancy
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artist_nationality:
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American
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artist_vital dates:
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1926 -
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artist_biographical note:
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Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1949), and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991) and Williams College (2001). Spero is a pioneer of feminist art. Her work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the extermination of Jews in the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Spero samples from a rich range of visual sources of women as protagonists—from Egyptian hieroglyphics, seventeenth-century French history painting, and Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie advertisements. Spero's figures co-exist in nonhierarchical compositions on monumental scrolls, and visually reinforce principles of equality and tolerance. Spero was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006). Awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association (2005); the Honor Award from the Women's Caucus for Art (2003); the Hiroshima Art Prize (jointly with Leon Golub, 1996); and the Skowhegan Medal (1995). Major exhibitions include Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (2003); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (1994); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1992); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988). Spero lived and worked in New York, where she passed away in October 2009.
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artist_reference:
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http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/nancy-spero
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work_title:
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A collection works by Nancy Spero
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work_technique:
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collage
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work_date:
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1971 - 1972
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work_topic:
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feminism
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