Exhibitions 2002 at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art

PLEASE NOTE: All exhibition descriptions are excerpts from Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art's quarterly newsletter, L'Artiste.	Past Exhibition Highlights
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2002 January 22 - March 17	North Gallery Pathways: Artist as Educator/Educator as Artist A St. Petersburg College Art Faculty Exhibition An inaugural exhibition of artwork created by full-time and adjunct art faculty at S. Petersburg College. Included are works in the mediums of painting, photography, ceramics, graphic design, and sculpture. Also included are works by retired members of the art faculty of the College. This exhibition showcases the fine talent and example they provide as faculty to the students of the art program. South Gallery Modern Mosaic: A Curriculum Resource for Teachers A K-12 Exhibition Inaugural Student exhibition of K-12 works using curriculum developed under an Arts in Education Grant from the State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs. Entitled Modern Mosaic: A Resource Guide to the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, this two year long program provides teachers with on-going educational materials on the museum, its collections, and supportive curriculum materials.
April 7 - June 16 Visiting student with Ibram Lassaw sculpture	North and South Galleries Ibram Lassaw Deep Space and Beyond Retrospective exhibition of the work of Ibram Lassaw (b. 1913), acclaimed for applying the open-form aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism to the medium of sculpture. Organized by Radford University Art Museum, Radford, Virginia by exhibition curator Arthur F. Jones, Ph.D., the exhibition included 10 sculptures, 14 works on paper or canvas, a rare “projection painting”, photographs, and an exhibition catalog. The works date from 1927 to 2001.
July 2 - August 24 Robert Indiana (American, b. 1928) Wall Series, 1990 Lithograph on Rives BFK paper Working Proof for an edition of 12 27 1/4 x 21 in. Robert Cumming (American, b. 1943) Swiss Army Knife, 1988 Monoprint on Arches Cover paper, 22 1/4 x 30 in.	North Gallery Summer Press at Vinalhaven Patricia Nick loved art and the process of creating art. After many years in museum administration and education, she discovered an old, unused schoolhouse on the island of Vinalhaven, fifteen miles off the coast of Maine where she assembled a print studio. During the summer months from 1984 to 2000, Nick brought together technicians, master printers and experimental artists to explore the creative process of printmaking. The results were masterful limited edition prints of unique quality and texture using processes of intaglio, woodcut, lithograph, and monotype. The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is pleased to have in its permanent collection twenty of these tour-de-force (italics) prints by ten significant national and international artists who worked at Vinalhaven Press. This exhibition was organized by guest curator Cynthia Duval. South Gallery Crowd at the Grand Hotel: A print suite by Boris Bucan “Croatian art is basically kitsch on one side and fashion on the other. I belong somewhere between the two and dislike them both.” -- Boris Bucan Boris Bucan was born, and continues to live in Zagreb, Croatia. He is part of an influential movement of contemporary artists in his country who use the power of art, posters, theater and film to tell the world that their art transcends the politics and propaganda of their region. Bucan gained an international reputation since his inclusion in the 1984 Venice Biennale and in recent years he has had numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. He has also visited Canada in 1999 to work on a series of prints. Bucan’s Crowd from the Grand Hotel Suite represents his desire to make art become its own reality. The twenty-two monotype images in this collection are presented not as individual objects, but rather as mysterious figures populating their own environment.
September 14 - October 27 Gerome Kamrowski (American, b. 1914) Tears from the Eyes of Terror, 1945 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in.	North and South Galleries Kamrowski: An American Surrealist This Gerome Kamrowski retrospective exhibition, organized by the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, is a tribute to an American artist who has been described as “the most Surrealist of us all.” Kamrowski, a man in his eighties, has enjoyed a career that has spanned over sixty years and represents his commitment to automatism…the technique of chance expression for surrealist artistic discovery. Throughout his career, Kamrowski crossed paths with some of the most influential artists of the 20^th century. With Allen Leepa and sculptor Tony Smith he studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago under European émigré Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In New York he centered his studies around Hans Hofmann. Later, while living and working in Greenwich Village, he associated with some of the greats of the New York School – Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes. He met many of the European surrealists who came to New York during World War II, including Max Ernst, Andre Masson and Robert Matta, all of whom were said to have a great influence on Kamrowski. Surrealist spokesperson Andre Breton was to say, “of all the young painters whose evolution I have been able to follow in New York during the last years, Gerome Kamrowski is the one who has impressed me . . .” This exhibition was selected from the Gerome Kamrowski collection housed in his Ann Arbor, Michigan studio.
November 10 - January 5, 2003 Bo Breguet (French, b. 1953) Tamborine Man, 2001 Acrylic on Arches paper, 30 x 22 in. Collection of the Artist	North and South Galleries Heart and Mind: The Art of Bo Breguet and Volf Roitman “As some people look for a land of political asylum, I am in search of a land of poetic refuge.” - Bo Breguet “Art is not only a ‘doing’ – it is a ‘thinking,’ a meditation on colors and forms.” - Volf Roitman Artists work with emotional and intellectual stimuli when creating art. Some artists appear only concerned with the emotional responses, such as French Pop artist Bo Breguet. In Breguet’s paintings he creates colorful, cartoon-like dreamscapes populated by imaginary animals and figures from his inner world. Other artists, such as Uruguayan artist Volf Roitman, appear to dwell only in the realm of intellectual exercise. Roitman adheres to the principles of MADI, an international movement dedicated to geometric (or “concrete”) non-representational art. While these two artists are diametrically opposed in their artistic directions, they are actually quite similar in their passion and intellectual searching. Heart and Mind: The Art of Bo Breguet and Volf Roitman is an attempt to understand the artistic drive that unites the emotional and intellectual.