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In the Unequal Cross-Lights
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A Contemporary sculptors responding to the New Bedford Whalig Museum's collection. An outdoor sculpture project o f worked installed around Museum's grounds. The exhibition's title is from Moby-Dick where Ismael, after he arrives in New Bedford, enters Spouter-Inn and in the "unequal cross-lights" entcounters a marvelous painting he is unable to make sense of. Hew realizes he is confronted with a work or art that requires earnest contemplation and repeated ponderings. Sculpture exhibit takes shape outside museum Articles: Notes on the Arts October 29, 2011 10:41 PM By David B. Boyce "Many who have visited the New Bedford Whaling Museum lately, or just sauntered by its canopied main entrance, probably have noticed a giant orange squid wrapped around a square column near that access. It is the artwork of Erik Durant, a New Bedford sculptor, an MFA graduate of UMass Dartmouth, and currently coordinator of the Fine Arts Program at Bristol Community College, where he has taught since 2006. Durant is one of eight artists participating in a show of outdoor sculpture titled "In the Unequal Cross-Lights Contemporary Sculptors Respond to the Whaling Museum Collections," organized by Lasse Antonsen, director of the University Art Galleries, and in collaboration with the UMD College of Visual and Performing Arts, the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, and the Whaling Museum. The eight artworks will be placed around the museum's downtown campus, and will remain on view for a year. The sculptors, all of who have a relationship with UMD either as faculty or former students, were selected by Antonsen and include Durant, Richard Creighton, Elizabeth Dooher, Stacy Latt Savage, Eric Lintala, Stephen Whittlesey, Shingo Furukawa, and himself. Each has made a response piece to something or some things in the museum's collections, or to some human emotion the artist has interpreted from his or her research into the collections. The project's title is taken from "Moby-Dick," referring to Ishmael's visit to the Spouter-Inn, where in the "unequal cross-lights" he sees a painting on the wall that confounds him. Melville writes that this artwork requires "careful inquiry," "earnest contemplation," and "repeated ponderings." In other words, much like looking at some contemporary art work, one must allow it time to divulge its intentions, its message, its meaning, or merely its composition. As of this writing, not all of the art has been installed, but viewers can currently see sculpture instructor Rick Creighton's 7-foot tall, wood and metal "Little Sailor Boy with Paddle Arms," just outside the main entrance. Balanced on the stepped wall across from the entrance is retired wood and furniture professor's Stephen Whittlesey's "Dreamboat," which has a heartrending back story regarding a fishing boat owner, his tragic death, his girlfriend and her grief, and her tragic story. Other wood used in making the piece comes from the Candle House, built in 1836 in Woods Hole, which served as a whaling supply house and spermaceti candle factory. Whittlesey acquired the floorboards of the building when it became office space for the Marine Biological Laboratory. Stacy Latt Savage has created "Resist," a painted wood sculpture depicting a nude male figure pushing against the wave of an arrangement of shapes inspired by whale baleen. Latt Savage states, "Whaling can be viewed as a symbol of the power of man's will and determination against extraordinary odds." Antonsen's installation borders the window frames and doorway of the exterior of what is now the Wattles Family Gallery, at the museum's back side, facing North Water Street. Titled "Pages from the Book of Water-Gazers," taken from the first chapter of "Moby-Dick" in which Melville describes the "insular city of the Manhattoes" and its "water-gazers" all "fixed in ocean reveries," some "looking over the bulwarks of ships from China," Antonsen's work often references the human impetus for exploration of the unknown, finding new and unusual objects, and species of flora and fauna. In the artist's words, "The installation creates a scenario similar to how prints in the 16th through the 19th century would often have borders, or illusionistic frames decorated with a mixture of scientific objects and foreign or imaginary birds, animals, plants, coins, insects, scientific instruments, seeds and fruit." Antonsen notes that nearly all of the pieces he has affixed to the frames are made in China, extending the Western longing for "the other," the exotic, and the new. Upstairs from the museum's observation deck, one can view Elizabeth Dooher's "Tether" on the rooftop below the deck. Referring to several objects in the museum's collections, Dooher specifically cites the skeleton of the mother whale and the in-utero baby, and the configuration of the war weapon, a bola. Further analyses of these art works will be addressed in my review when the exhibit is completed. As the exhibit is added to, the NBWM will produce a brochure that will further explain the project and the participating artist's intentions. This is a wonderful collaborative effort to link New Bedford's past with its present in a most artful way. Be sure to make a visit. David B. Boyce is senior arts correspondent for The Standard-Times. ARTicles appears biweekly."
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A Contemporary sculptors responding to the New Bedford Whalig Museum's collection. An outdoor sculpture project o f worked installed around Museum's grounds. The exhibition's title is from Moby-Dick where Ismael, after he arrives in New Bedford, enters Spouter-Inn and in the "unequal cross-lights" entcounters a marvelous painting he is unable to make sense of. Hew realizes he is confronted with a work or art that requires earnest contemplation and repeated ponderings. Sculpture exhibit takes shape outside museum Articles: Notes on the Arts October 29, 2011 10:41 PM By David B. Boyce "Many who have visited the New Bedford Whaling Museum lately, or just sauntered by its canopied main entrance, probably have noticed a giant orange squid wrapped around a square column near that access. It is the artwork of Erik Durant, a New Bedford sculptor, an MFA graduate of UMass Dartmouth, and currently coordinator of the Fine Arts Program at Bristol Community College, where he has taught since 2006. Durant is one of eight artists participating in a show of outdoor sculpture titled "In the Unequal Cross-Lights Contemporary Sculptors Respond to the Whaling Museum Collections," organized by Lasse Antonsen, director of the University Art Galleries, and in collaboration with the UMD College of Visual and Performing Arts, the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, and the Whaling Museum. The eight artworks will be placed around the museum's downtown campus, and will remain on view for a year. The sculptors, all of who have a relationship with UMD either as faculty or former students, were selected by Antonsen and include Durant, Richard Creighton, Elizabeth Dooher, Stacy Latt Savage, Eric Lintala, Stephen Whittlesey, Shingo Furukawa, and himself. Each has made a response piece to something or some things in the museum's collections, or to some human emotion the artist has interpreted from his or her research into the collections. The project's title is taken from "Moby-Dick," referring to Ishmael's visit to the Spouter-Inn, where in the "unequal cross-lights" he sees a painting on the wall that confounds him. Melville writes that this artwork requires "careful inquiry," "earnest contemplation," and "repeated ponderings." In other words, much like looking at some contemporary art work, one must allow it time to divulge its intentions, its message, its meaning, or merely its composition. As of this writing, not all of the art has been installed, but viewers can currently see sculpture instructor Rick Creighton's 7-foot tall, wood and metal "Little Sailor Boy with Paddle Arms," just outside the main entrance. Balanced on the stepped wall across from the entrance is retired wood and furniture professor's Stephen Whittlesey's "Dreamboat," which has a heartrending back story regarding a fishing boat owner, his tragic death, his girlfriend and her grief, and her tragic story. Other wood used in making the piece comes from the Candle House, built in 1836 in Woods Hole, which served as a whaling supply house and spermaceti candle factory. Whittlesey acquired the floorboards of the building when it became office space for the Marine Biological Laboratory. Stacy Latt Savage has created "Resist," a painted wood sculpture depicting a nude male figure pushing against the wave of an arrangement of shapes inspired by whale baleen. Latt Savage states, "Whaling can be viewed as a symbol of the power of man's will and determination against extraordinary odds." Antonsen's installation borders the window frames and doorway of the exterior of what is now the Wattles Family Gallery, at the museum's back side, facing North Water Street. Titled "Pages from the Book of Water-Gazers," taken from the first chapter of "Moby-Dick" in which Melville describes the "insular city of the Manhattoes" and its "water-gazers" all "fixed in ocean reveries," some "looking over the bulwarks of ships from China," Antonsen's work often references the human impetus for exploration of the unknown, finding new and unusual objects, and species of flora and fauna. In the artist's words, "The installation creates a scenario similar to how prints in the 16th through the 19th century would often have borders, or illusionistic frames decorated with a mixture of scientific objects and foreign or imaginary birds, animals, plants, coins, insects, scientific instruments, seeds and fruit." Antonsen notes that nearly all of the pieces he has affixed to the frames are made in China, extending the Western longing for "the other," the exotic, and the new. Upstairs from the museum's observation deck, one can view Elizabeth Dooher's "Tether" on the rooftop below the deck. Referring to several objects in the museum's collections, Dooher specifically cites the skeleton of the mother whale and the in-utero baby, and the configuration of the war weapon, a bola. Further analyses of these art works will be addressed in my review when the exhibit is completed. As the exhibit is added to, the NBWM will produce a brochure that will further explain the project and the participating artist's intentions. This is a wonderful collaborative effort to link New Bedford's past with its present in a most artful way. Be sure to make a visit. David B. Boyce is senior arts correspondent for The Standard-Times. ARTicles appears biweekly."
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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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An outdoor sculpture project at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
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