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Home > Exhibitions > Crafting Abstraction

Crafting Abstraction

Dates:
March 10 - May 13, 2018
Location:
Asheville Art Museum On the Slope (175 Biltmore Avenue)

Crafting Abstraction brings together a selection from the Museum’s Permanent Collection that highlights the importance of craft to the development of modernist abstraction in the United States. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, modernist artists have used abstract forms—geometric and organic—to express immaterial phenomena such as spirituality, gracefulness, vitality, speed, sensuality and emotion. In many of these artworks, the physical attributes of the materials and the processes of hand-making are integral to the ideas and experiences conveyed.

Crafting Abstraction proposes an alternative to histories of art that credit the development of modernist abstraction to only painters and sculptors. The exhibition presents works in a wide variety of media including weaving, ceramics, woodworking, assemblage, quilting and stained glass, among others. Featured artists include: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Sidney Buchanan, Bessie Harvey, William Albert Lanier, Beatrice Riese and Jerilyn Virden.

This exhibition was curated by Holly Gore, PhD candidate in art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara + the Museum’s Windgate Curatorial Intern 2017. This internship was supported by a Windgate Museum Internship Award administered by the Center for Craft.

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Friday, Nov 3, 2017

Woodworking at Black Mountain College

Today’s Art Break is led by Holly Gore, Windgate curatorial intern.

Tuesday, Mar 20, 2018

The Craft of Abstraction and the Abstract Power of Realism

MARCH 20, 27, APRIL 3, 17, 24 + MAY 1 — Tuesdays, 6–8pm This painting and mixed-media class explores the “craft” of painting as it applies to abstract

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018

The Craft of Abstraction and the Abstract Power of Realism

MARCH 20, 27, APRIL 3, 17, 24 + MAY 1 — Tuesdays, 6–8pm This painting and mixed-media class explores the “craft” of painting as it applies to abstract

Tuesday, Apr 3, 2018

The Craft of Abstraction and the Abstract Power of Realism

MARCH 20, 27, APRIL 3, 17, 24 + MAY 1 — Tuesdays, 6–8pm This painting and mixed-media class explores the “craft” of painting as it applies to abstract

Friday, Apr 13, 2018

Crafting Abstraction

Today’s Art Break is led by Lola Clairmont, curatorial assistant.

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