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Art Down
It felt strange seeing all of the paintings and drawings from the exhibition Nzambi (God) down off the walls at the Italian Academy this week. Columbia had requested that the show stay around another month after the festival ended in June so more people on campus could see it. I went to the gallery and removed the paintings, took off the hardware, pulled off the wall labels. The room felt so lonely. The director of the Italian Academy, Rick Whitaker, told me that he already missed the works.
One Great Whole
We were at an Advisory Board meeting for the Center in January, and J. Kirk Richards had an idea: what if we did something at the Festival that allowed multiple artists to make something together? At the 2017 Festival, we exhibited Kirk's multi-panel work, Cristo (2014), that brought together 161 paintings of different sizes together. These had been created by Kirk working with people in his community who were invited to show how they imagined Jesus Christ to appear; then Kirk reworked the images to unite them stylistically.
Artist in (My) Residence
Hildebrando de Melo arrived at JFK airport from Angola via Lisbon and Amsterdam one week ago today. He is here to do an artist's residency, the Center's first. The resulting paintings will form the solo exhibition at the Festival in June. Our plan was to have him here early to give us a chance to frame works, create a catalog, and become acclimated to the works a while. Then, he'll come back in June for the opening. He'll also be giving a presentation/interview about his work at the Festival.
Olá. Eu sou Hildebrando de Melo
We are pleased to announce that the Mormon Arts Center has granted its first artist's residency to the painter and sculptor Hildebrando de Melo. The residency will consist of the Center bringing Hildebrando from his home in Luanda, Angola to New York City to create ...
The Here and Now
This morning, I woke up to a post by Wonderland magazine which, in connection with Tiffany & Co., published five short videos about the upcoming Whitney Biennial, an exhibition that has existed since 1932. The Biennial was according, to artist Miranda July “just American art and just about right now, a snap shot of this moment and time ..."