Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum - Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition 2012
Exhibition: Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition
June 9 to September 22, 2012
The 2012 Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition will be held at the Museum from June 9 to September 22, 2012. An opening reception to meet the artists will be held at the Museum on Saturday, June 9 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.
Joseph Antenucci Becherer was the juror for this year's biennial. He is the founding Director and Curator of the Sculpture Program at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He currently serves as Chief Curator and Vice President of Sculpture and Horticulture, Collections and Exhibitions. In addition he is the Lena Meijer Professor in the History of Art atAquinasCollegeteaching courses in Renaissance, Baroque, Modern, and Contemporary art. Becherer's undergraduate and Master's work were at Ohio University with a thesis was on Georges Rouault; he continued with the doctoral program at Indiana University, working under Bruce Cole who advised his dissertation on Pietro Perugino and American collecting.
Becherer has authored numerous books, catalogues and articles, and curated many exhibitions. Most recently he has organized exhibitions of Jaume Plensa, Jonathan Borofsky, Jim Dine Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Henry Moore, George Segal, Richard Hunt, Auguste Rodin, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Anthony Caro, among others. He is presently preparing a retrospective of Beverly Pepper for aUStour and organizing the premier American exhibitions of Laura Ford and Arne Quinze, respectively.
The prospectus announced that the exhibition was open to all living artists working in sculpture and residing within 200 miles of Saginaw, Michigan, and that the work must be entirely original and completed within the last 5 years.
We believe it's important that the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum and Saginaw Valley State University support working artists, and hosting a biennial sculpture exhibition is an excellent way to do it, said Marilyn Wheaton, Museum Director.
The juror awarded four Merit Awards that will be distributed at the June 9th reception: First place $2,500, sponsored by the Doll-Loesel Foundation; second place $1,250, third place $850 and fourth place $400, sponsored by Meijer, Inc. and Maxwell K. Pribil Memorial Fund, administered by CITIZENS BANK Wealth Management. There are also three Honorable Mention awards.
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Location: Saginaw Valley State University | Arbury Fine Arts Center | 7400 Bay Road - University Center, MI 48710
Phone: (989) 964-7125
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am - 5pm | Sat 12 - 5pm
Admission to the Museum is free to walk-in visitors.
The museum is housed in the Arbury Fine Arts Center on the campus of SVSU. Marshall M. Fredericks was a Detroit based traditional figurative public sculptor. The Main Exhibit Gallery features a collection of 200 works, mostly plaster models that span the 70 year career of Fredericks. He is known nationally and internationally for his monumental figurative sculpture, public memorials, public fountains, portraits, and whimsical animal figures. The Sculptor's Studio displays an installation of Frederick's authentic studio objects and artifacts such as sculptures, tools, and equipment exhibited to explain the casting process. The changing exhibitions gallery feature the work of Michigan, regional and national artists. The Sculpture Garden includes twenty of Fredericks bronze and metal sculptures.
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In 2008, the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum established a sculpture biennial exhibition to support working artists. Michelle Perron, Director of the Office of Exhibitions & Public Programs at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit juried the exhibition and selected the merit award winners from 151 artworks submitted by 66 artists from the state of Michigan and Northern Indiana.
The exhibition will be on display at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum from Saturday, June 2 through Saturday, Sept.22.
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Art in Architecture: The Collaborative Spirit of the Interwar Period in Detroit
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum will host an exhibition, Art in Architecture: The Collaborative Spirit of the Interwar Period in Detroit, Saturday, Feb. 5 through Saturday, May 28. A reception to celebrate the exhibition's opening will be held at the Museum Saturday, Feb. 19 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Melissa Ford, Museum Archivist, is curator of the exhibition. We are very excited to share this exhibition with the Great Lakes Bay Region. Detroit has some of the finest surviving examples of Art Deco and classical revival architecture in the country. These buildings include beautiful tile work, stained glass, mosaics, and sculpture. During the 1920s and '30s, architects, artists, and craftsmen collaborated on the design of these structures, resulting in some of the city's most stunning architecture, said Ford. This exhibit includes objects and documents from the collections of the Detroit Historical Museum, Cranbrook Educational Community, Meadow Brook Hall, Temple Beth El, Penobscot Building, and the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum collection, said Ford.
Museum Director Marilyn Wheaton said, Originally museum staff envisioned an exhibition that would examine the relationship and the collaborations between architect Alden B. Dow and sculptor Marshall M. Fredericks. Once the research commenced, however, the landscape appeared fertile for a much broader scope of artists and architects collaborations, particularly in the Detroit area between the first and second world wars.
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Latino Folk Tales: Cuentos Populares - Art by Latino Artists
Latino Folk Tales: Cuentos Populares -- Art by Latino Artists Exhibition opens at the
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum July 9
A unique exhibition of 65 framed original artworks from twelve well-known artists will open at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Tuesday, July 9 and run through Sept. 14, 2013.
The exhibition features original illustrations from bilingual Latino folk tales published in children's picture books. Twelve award winning artists focus their lively imaginations, distinctive styles, and colorful palettes to bring the stories alive. The illustrations enhance stories collected from many Spanish-speaking regions including Mexico, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Central America and South America.
The exhibition features world-renowned artists Leovigildo Martinez, Maya Christina Gonzalez, Lulu Delacre, Lucia and Gloria Perez, Felipe Dávalos-González, Beatriz Vidal, Honorio Robledo, Esau Andrade Valencia, Amy Córdova, Susan Guevara, and Raul Colón. Their story-telling art can be seen in The First Tortilla, Juan and the Jackalope, The Bossy Gallito, Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, How the Rainbow Was Made, and a kaleidoscope of other Latino folk tales featured in this exhibition. Exhibition wall labels are in Spanish and English.
The Latino Folk Tales: Cuentos Populares -- Art by Latino Artists is the first exhibition by Latino artists the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum has hosted. We are delighted that Museum board member Jim Jaime and other local Latino residents are involved in planning the opening reception, said Museum Director Marilyn Wheaton.
As a member of the exhibition committee, I am excited to do my part to help plan the opening reception on Thursday, July 11. As a member of the Great Lakes Bay Regional Hispanic Business Association, I encourage the entire community to not only come to the opening reception but to visit the Latino Folk Tales exhibition. It is a once in a life time opportunity to experience an amazing display of beautiful Latino artwork, said Jim Jaime.
An opening reception on Thursday, July 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m. will be free and open to the public. RSVP to (989)964-7082 or ljalliso@svsu.edu if you plan to attend.
The exhibition was curated and organized by Sylvia Nissley, Sarasota, FL and made available by Smith Kramer Traveling Exhibitions, Kansas City, MO.
This exhibition is supported in part by Michigan Pipe & Valve, Robert Sidney, and the Great Lakes Bay Regional Hispanic Business Association.
Seungmo Park, Meticulously Snipped & Wrapped
Renowned Korean artist Seungmo Park will display his unique works at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University. The exhibition Seung Mo Park, Meticulously Snipped & Wrapped opens Friday, Sept. 26 to debut at the Museum’s annual Saints, Sinners and Shenanigans gala benefit that same evening.
This exhibition, originated by the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City, marks Park’s second one-man exhibition in the Midwest. Gene Jennman, Director of the Dennos, said “this was a ‘jaw dropping’ experience for visitors to the exhibition.”
Park has had solo exhibitions in Daegu, Busan, and his native Seoul, South Korea; as well as Taipei, Taiwan; London, England; and New York. His work has been in group exhibitions at the Hangaram Art Museum, Gwangiu Museum of Art, and Kyunggido Museum in South Korea; galleries and museums in Beijing and Shanghai, China; London, England; Israel; Kolkata, India; and New York City.
“Park’s meticulously cut MAYA (meaning ‘illusion’ in Sanskrit) imagery and aluminum wire-wrapped sculpture forms are undeniably unique and intriguing works of art,” said Marilyn Wheaton, Director of the Fredericks Sculpture Museum. “They are remarkable, transparent, illusory works of art, like no other we have exhibited at this Museum,” she added.
Works from Park’s HUMAN series, where he recreates the delicate wrinkles and folds of clothing as well as the sinuous musculature of the human body in metallic layers reminiscent of tree rings, and from his OBJECT series of sculpted musical instruments and other forms will also be in the exhibition.
The Museum is grateful to The Dow Chemical Company for sponsoring the exhibition.
Pt 2 Painting and Sculpture Thayer
An exhibition of stunning works by two well-known Michigan artists, Russell and Nancy Thayer, will be on display at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum. Thayer + Thayer, Paintings + Sculpture, opens Saturday, Feb. 7 2010.
Richard Hunt - The Art of This Century
Richard Hunt, The Art of This Century
University Center, Mich. — The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University has received a $10,000 grant from the Saginaw Community Foundation for an upcoming exhibition. Richard Hunt, The Art of This Century will open at the Museum Friday, Oct. 4. Gallery Talks will be Thursday, Oct. 3 at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
An internationally recognized sculptor living in Chicago, Richard Hunt is best known for his public sculptures. His works fuse art, architecture and the environment. By incorporating found materials and various metals into his works, Hunt uses an abstract expressionist style to create sculptures that suggest organic forms with humanistic qualities.
Hunt has made history for more than 50 years. He was the youngest artist selected to exhibit at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and he was the first African-American artist to have a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1971. In 2009, the International Sculpture Center awarded him the International Achievement Award. Today Hunt has more sculptures in public spaces than any other artist in the country; 50 are located in Illinois, including more than 30 in the Chicago area.
My career in sculpture began in 1955. It was then, while still a student, I began to exhibit my sculpture around Chicago in all sorts of places: art fairs, small galleries, local art centers, and the like. Public sculpture responds to the dynamics of a community, or of those in it who have a use for sculpture. It is this aspect of use, of utility, that gives public sculpture its vital and lively place in the public mind, said Richard Hunt.
Between 1958 and 2012, Hunt has had nearly 90 solo museum and gallery exhibitions in 18 states and the District of Columbia, and he has received nearly 100 commissions. One of his most recently completed public sculptures is Columnar Construction. Sited on a bluff above the restored Gilkey Creek and the Flint River Trail adjacent to Mott Community College in Flint, the Ruth Mott Foundation dedicated the sculpture on Oct. 26, 2011.
Richard Hunt's career as a sculptor is impressive and his artwork is stunning. We are grateful to the Saginaw Community Foundation for supporting this exhibition, making it possible for Richard Hunt's work to come to the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum where University faculty, staff and students, and residents of the Great Lakes Bay Region will have an opportunity to experience it, said Museum Director Marilyn Wheaton.
Richard Hunt: The Art of This Century is an exhibition of sculptures, models for commissioned pieces, and working drawings. The exhibition will be at the Museum through Jan. 25, 2014.
Charles McGee
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum will host an exhibition, 2 Centuries, 3 Decades, 28 works by Charles McGee, Saturday, June 4 through Saturday, September 28. A reception to meet the artist and celebrate the exhibition's opening will be held at the Museum Saturday, June 4 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Marilyn Wheaton, Museum Director, is curator of the exhibition. We are very pleased to share this exhibition of Charles McGee's work with the Great Lakes Bay Region, Wheaton said.
Charles McGee came to Michigan at age ten from a humble childhood in South Carolina and has lived and worked in Detroit for seventy-seven years. Those first ten years shaped the texture and content of who Charles McGee is today. His accomplishments as an artist and a human being, as an educator and a gallery owner, present an encyclopedic journey from modesty to greatness, Wheaton said.
At age eighty-five in 2009, Charles McGee celebrated his life's work with a retrospective exhibition at Eastern Michigan University, a body of work that spanned nearly sixty years. McGee first visited the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum in early 2010. When he saw the temporary exhibition galleries he told the museum staff that he would create a piece for that wall, gesturing to the largest flat surface in the gallery.
For the last several months, McGee has worked in his Detroit studio to complete Play Patterns II, one of his largest ever three-dimensional pieces (at 10' x 20'), for the 2 Centuries, 3 Decades, 28 works by Charles McGee exhibition.
During the past thirty years, McGee has produced thousands of drawings and hundreds of paintings and sculptures; taught adult art classes at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center for eleven years; been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in this country and abroad; completed seventeen public art commissions; and awarded the first Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist Award in 2009.
This exhibition is made possible by $5,000 grants each from the Bay Area Community Foundation, the Midland Area Community Foundation, and the Saginaw Community Foundation.
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum is located on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University, 7400 Bay Road. Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (989) 964-7125 or visit the Museum's website at marshallfredericks.org.
Fragmenta: Jay Holland & Sergio De Giusti
When Skip (William) Davis, a Detroit area art collector, asked me some time ago if I might consider an exhibition based on the theme of “master and student” that would show the work of two well-known and respected Michigan artists, I asked him to tell me more. Subsequently, he sent me an exhibition concept proposal, which I
responded to enthusiastically. Skip’s proposal read: “Detroit
sculptors Jay Holland and Sergio De Giusti are monuments themselves in the art world. Not only have they both
been recognized internationally for their mastery in the classical genre, but they have distinguished themselves
as artists, instructors and mentors, and as contributors to the Detroit art scene for over six decades.” Sergio De Giusti and Jay Holland
met in 1960 when Sergio was a high school student and Jay was teaching sculpture classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Jay was initially attracted to Sergio’s Italian accent (Sergio came to Detroit from Italy in 1954), and later the older artist could
see a special talent in his nineteen-year-old student. That sculpture class with Jay helped prepare Sergio for his admission to Wayne State University in 1961 to study sculpture. Jay and Sergio saw each other regularly for many years. Sergio often visited Jay and his wife at their home in Birmingham, where there was always music and serious discourse about art and sculpture. When Jay took a year-long sabbatical from the College for Creative Studies, Sergio
took over teaching his classes. Both artists share a great interest in
music. Jay loved Russian opera and introduced Sergio to Modest
Mussorgsky’s masterpiece Borís Godunóv and Enrico Caruso’s Italian
opera singing. Sergio recalls Jay playing Caruso’s music for his students in all of his classes. The friendship that began in 1960 at
the DIA and continued through all of these years seems to be based on a love of art and classical music, and a mutual respect for each other. As Jay says, “we are friends forever after.“ While Jay and Sergio have been in several group shows together, FRAGMENTA
is only their second two-person exhibition. It is a pleasure to bring together a body of work by two renowned sculptors in a Museum
where the works of a great American master, Marshall Fredericks, reside.
Marilyn L. Wheaton
Museum Director
SVSU International Students Spoke to Kids at Children's Museum
Tom Phardel
An exhibition of stunning works by two well-known Michigan artists, Tom Phardel and Sharon Que. This exhibition is an overview of my work over more than a decade. It's who I am. It's like looking in the mirror. I can't wait to see it in such a fine setting as the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Tom Phardel said.
Of Phardel's work, Josephine Shea, curator, Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, writes in the exhibition catalogue, Whether acid etched, or sandblasted and slumped, glass is used for its translucency. Combined with patinated steel platforms, Phardel creates both intimate wall-mounted stages and large-scale pieces like Temple Totem that invite the observer to come closer, exploring beyond the first frontal but distorted glance.
Otis Series 1 Hydraulic Elevator at the Arbury Fine Arts Center, Saginaw Valley State University
Riding the basic elevator in the Arbury Fine Arts Center/Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, at Saginaw Valley State University.
TECHNICAL SPECS:
Make: Otis
Type: Hydraulic
Capacity: 3000-3500 Lbs.
Number of Floors: 2
Year Installed: 1988
The President's Photographer: 50 Years Inside the Oval Office
THE PRESIDENT'S PHOTOGRAPHER: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office Exhibition comes to the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
As a companion to the very popular National Geographic book and documentary, this new traveling exhibition features both iconic and rarely seen images of our Presidents through the eyes of their official photographers. The exhibition will be on display at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum from Feb.3 through May 24, 2014.
Since the 1960s, photographic images have become an increasingly critical tool in how we understand our presidents. John F. Kennedy was the first president to have an official photographer — Cecil Stoughton — and nearly every president since then has had one. The current chief official White House photographer is Pete Souza. He also had a stint in the Reagan White House from 1983 to 1989 (but not as chief photographer), making him the first photographer to have officially served two presidents for extended periods.
The presidential photographer's job is two-fold: one, taking photographs of the president greeting dignitaries, visitors and guests; and two, perhaps more challenging and gratifying: documenting for history every possible aspect of the presidency, both official events, backstage happenings, and off-duty private moments. Creating a good photographic archive for history is the most important part of my job, creating this archive that will live on, says Souza. This is not so much photojournalism as photo-history. Souza and his staff produce up to 20,000 pictures a week.
This exhibition offers a fresh and candid viewpoint on life and work behind the famous façade of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. These engaging photos capture moments of high drama and turmoil and moments of family fun and intimacy.
To take the best possible images, the photographer has to develop a kind of invisibility. For a presidential photographer, there's no higher praise than being utterly ignored, so that the subjects pay you no attention and you get the most natural shots, says Souza.
John Bredar, author of the book and producer of the National Geographic documentary, writes that what presidential photographers try to capture is not just the cumulative experiences of a presidency, but what the president was like as the events happened, the big arcs of the presidency — legislative challenges, managing wars and crises, and other major events — colored by coverage that evokes the character of the man in the crucible.
The job of presidential photographer is all about access and trust, and if you have both of those you're going to make interesting, historic pictures, Souza says. Yoichi Okamoto, for example, had unprecedented, unfettered access to President Johnson. His pictures are considered by his peers to be among the best. President Nixon's photographer, Ollie Atkins, on the other hand, had no personal or direct access to the president.
The exhibition features 50 framed images and a text panel with brief biographical information on each photographer. The President's Photographer exhibition is produced and traveled by the National Geographic Society.
The exhibition is made possible with a grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sharon Que
An exhibition of stunning works by two well-known Michigan artists, Tom Phardel and Sharon Que. Sharon Que, a sculptor and violin and viola maker/restorer, said of the exhibition: I'm so pleased we have a museum in Michigan devoted to sculpture, to be exhibiting my contemporary hybrid sculpture in this elegant museum along with the significant traditional sculptures of Marshall Fredericks, and to be working with the incredible museum staff.
Of Que's work, Shea writes, Coming from a family of engineers, she loves drawing mechanically, and precise measurement of forms has always been a passion. Always trying to comprehend the universe, she has an ongoing fascination with the ways we try to measure it. It's not surprising that her favorite tool in this quest is a palm-size divider. This fascination led to a study of mathematical models, structures created to make visible the invisible, to help students grasp concepts and ideas.