Works on Paper
April 16 to June 13, 2010
Museums are in the business of collecting, sorting, and classifying objects for preservation and display. Exhibitions are often organized according to technique, medium, or art historical period. Works on Paper is a term used by museums to classify a range of artifacts produced on paper and typically include drawing, painting and printmaking. Taking playful liberty with the designation, this exhibition presents work from the Permanent Collection that reconsiders the medium and its conceptual potential. It showcases the cheeky and inquisitive spirit of artists working in the past half century and is a light-hearted meditation on museum conventions. Curated by Troy Gronsdahl and Troy Mamer.
List of Works:
Derek Michael Besant
Drawing Room #23, 1978
watercolour, ink on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased with funds from the Canada Council Special Purchase Assistance Program 1978.
Otto Rogers
Sky as Architecture, 1980
acrylic, charcoal, paper collage on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased 1981.
Michael Snow
Stowaway, 1961
graphite on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased 1986.
Robert Rauschenberg
Tampa 3, 1972
lithograph, paper collage, graphite on paper
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Gift of Charles Ringness 1998.
Michael Maranda
The Three Critiques of Immanuel Kant, 2000
mixed media on
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Purchased with assistance from the Canada Council 2000.
Gunter Nolte
Untitled (Instant Criticism of Illusion), 1976
spray paint on paper
H:152,0 x W:110,0 x cm
Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Gift of Judith Nolte 2001.
