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PAST EXHIBITIONS
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Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
Third Annual Niagara County-Wide School Art Exhibition
April 23 – May 7, 2006
SUBMISSION / LABEL FORM
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From Aguirre to Zúñiga: The Figure in Latin American Art |
| January 28 - April 9, 2006 Opening reception with curator’s talk: First Friday, February 3, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Do you know that the Castellani Art Museum’s collection includes 200 works by Latin American artists? What a rare treat to be able to create an exhibition of this caliber out of our own permanent collection! José Cuevas (Mexico), Enrique Grau (Columbia), Wilfredo Lam (Cuba), Marisol (Venezuela), Roberto Matta (Chile), Alberto Rey (Cuba), Jesús-Rafael Soto (Mexico), Rufino Tamayo (Mexico), Joaquin Torres-García (Uruguay), and Francisco Zúñiga (Costa Rico) are some of the major names of artists in the exhibition. Aspecial feature of the show will be an installation reminiscent of a traditional Puerto Rican mask-maker’s studio. Drawing on the museum’s folk arts collection, the installation will include vejigantes, paper maché carnival masks, by Cesar Romero; a carnival costume by Orlando Ortiz; and a series of unfinished masks by Lillian Méndez showing how vejigantes are made. In conjunction with the show, a cooperative partnership was formed with many of our fellow arts organizations in Erie and Niagara counties. Called “The Latin Connection: Arts Across the Region,” it includes the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, CEPA Gallery, El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, and the Western New York Artists Group at Art Dialogue Gallery—all in Buffalo; and the Kenan Center, Lockport; the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University; and the Castellani and Theatre Studies of Niagara University. (See pages 4 and 5 for all of the exciting exhibitions, programs, and events planned around a Latino Theme during late January through early April of 2006.).jpg) |
Antonio Frasconi, Henry David Thoreau, n.d.,woodcut. Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University Collection. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Armand J. Castellani, 1987 |
 Roberto Matta, Interruption of a Memory, 1966, oil on canvas. Castellani Art Museum ofNiagara University Collection. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Armand J. Castellani, 1986 |
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A SERIES OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS FOR REGIONAL ARTISTS |
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Lillian Méndez: Lily’s Funky Parade
February 3 - May 14, 2006
Opening reception with artist’s tour: First Friday, February 3, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Lillian Méndez’s recent work offers two new concepts of her art. One flows from the tradition of large family gatherings in Latino/ Hispanic cultures, which a friend of the artist’s, after observing Méndez’s family group, compared to a parade (parada). The other relates to the actual participants in the parade—all artist-created dolls exhibiting an amazing range of emotions that, according to Méndez, “show the construction and distortions of our individual personality and, in general, of mankind as a whole.”.jpg)
Lillian Méndez, Lily’s Fuzzy Burrito, 2004, acrylic on canvas
For a copy of the exhibition catalogue Click Here |
Wolf Kahn Paints the Falls
April 7 - September 10, 2006
Opening reception with artist’s book signing:
First Friday, April 7, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
From 1697, when Father Louis Hennepin produced the  first known image of Niagara, to the breathtaking view of the emerald water by Frederic Edwin Church, the falls have captivated artists, both native and international. For many years, Wolf Kahn, a nationally recognized master of the landscape genre, has kept a list of iconic places he wants to capture on paper or canvas. Niagara Falls was at the top of the list. Now the results of a spring 2005 visit to Niagara Falls— oils, pastels, and drawings—will grace the Castellani walls, beginning April 7. A videotaping of the artist talking and sketching at the falls, the most recent in a series, will accompany the show. Our thanks go out to Wolf Kahn and the Wolf Kahn Family Foundation for its support of the exhibition._0000.jpg)
Wolf Kahn sketching the falls, with videographer Alan Dater of Marlboro
Films and NU graduate Josh Becker, a major in Communication Studies
Full Color Catalogue available, $14.95. To order, email camshop@niagara.edu |
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