Art Break, Looking Forward and Looking Back - Together

Docent-Led

Friday, November 6, 2009

12:00- 1:00 p.m.

Free With Museum Membership or Admission

The Museum presents lunchtime Art Breaks, a series of gallery talks and presentations designed to inform and engage you in dialogue with members of our curatorial and education departments, docents and special guests. Join an informative member of the Asheville Art Museum's Docents on a guided tour of the exciting exhibitions Looking Forward and Looking Back.

Looking Back will explore the Museum's collection of American art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an interest in the art of the Southeast and Western North Carolina and will celebrate the generosity of collectors and community supporters who have helped build this extraordinary resource over the last six decades.

This exhibition will feature artworks by Janet Fish, Maud Gatewood, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Moskowitz, Nathan Oliveira, William Lester Stevens and others.

Looking Forward: New Works and New Directions for the Permanent Collection brings to light the significant growth that has occurred in recent years. It also showcases some of the areas in which the Museum has collected in depth, including work by Black Mountain College artists, Cherokee artists and Western North Carolina studio craft.

In 2008, Museum staff, board and volunteers examined the Museum's collection focus and works in the collection to create a collection growth plan. The growth plan was developed to identify the strengths of the permanent collection and areas where the collection needs further advancement. Looking Forward: New Works and New Directions for the Permanent Collection notes the significance of the Asheville Art Museum's permanent collection as it exists today and looks forward to its continued growth in the coming years.

This exhibition features works in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, ceramics and drawing. Included in the exhibition is photography by Larry Clark and paintings by Thornton Dial, Kenneth Noland and John Urbain.

Image Credit:

John Urbain, Lavender Night, acrylic and collage, 1979, 15 x 15 inches. Gift of Lorna Blaine Halper. Asheville Art Museum Collection.