Current Exhibitions

ROBERT DELFORD BROWN: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics

March 28 - September 28, 2008
Galleria Cases

Exhibition extended to September 28!



ROBERT DELFORD BROWN: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics is the artist's first museum exhibition following an active career of 50 years. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, designed and authored by artist-writer Mark Bloch, (NYC) who served as the exhibition's guest curator.

Brown has remained in the vanguard of art since his arrival in New York in 1959, participating in Performance Art, Fluxus, Pop Art, Happenings and Correspondence art movements while formulating his own, unique creative vision. His work of the early 1960's had a great impact at the time, forecasting contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst (carcasses in formaldahyde) and Han Hyo-Seok's disturbing photographs of faces and bodies of raw meat. Throughout his early career, Brown encountered, communicated and collaborated with notable avant garde artists, including Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg and others.

Exhibition catalogue was generously supported by Marc and Madlen Simon.
The exhibition is sponsored in part by The Talking Phone Book, a Publication of Hearst Holdings.

Art & Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST

May 2 - October 19, 2008
Brown Wing

This exhibition, the first in the museum's "Art and Social Conscience"series, features works by art faculty members from 11 of the 16 branches of the University of North Carolina system. Artists were asked to address the Holocaust and its larger context of mankind's inhumanity to man, and many responded with new work created for the exhibition.

A related Holocaust literary commemoration featuring original works by faculty members of UNCW's Creative Writing Department, will be published by the Cameron Art Museum in late summer 2008. Writers will read their works to mark the exhibition's closing in October, 2008.

This exhibition is part of a collaborative project initiated by the UNCW Office of Cultural Arts, with active participation by the UNCW Department of Art & Art History.
The exhibition is generously supported by: Hannah Block, Frank and Wendy Block; and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pancoe.

John Maggio (UNC Greensboro)
The Procession, 1993
Mixed Media Print

Bob Trotman's Business as Usual

May 22 - October 12, 2008
Brown Wing

Business as Usual is an installation of ten carved and painted wooden sculptures by North Carolina sculptor Bob Trotman.

The sculptures, which represent men and women in corporate business attire, are divided into three subsections. The first, Committee, features larger-than-life portrait busts of three men and two women. Each face has some part, eyes, mouth, or both, carved on wooden blocks which may be removed, reversed, and reinserted (by a curator) to reveal another expression. The second subsection, Chorus, is comprised of four larger-than-life partial figures which rest directly on the floor from their armpits up with arms raised and heads back as if they were in distress. The third subsection is entitled Cover Up. It is a single sculpture five feet in height of four figures under a carved wooden shroud with only their legs and feet showing, but their upper bodies discernable beneath the cloth.

The works are dramatically lit and presented as a tableau in one of the museum's galleries. They will no doubt elicit widely varying interpretations from viewers.

Tom, 2005
28 x 26 x 19
Wood, tempera, wax and steel hardware

Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art

May 22, 2008 - May 24, 2009
Hughes Wing

This exhibition is drawn from the contemporary collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, and includes work from the mid-1970's by canonical figures in art history, such as Robert Motherwell, Roger Brown, Elizabeth Murray and Ed Ruscha as well as more recent acquisitions by artists such as Devorah Sperber.
This year-long exhibition will remain on view as the NCMA undergoes renovations and construction of its new museum facility.

The exhibition will be accompanied by public programs related to the exhibition, including art history lectures, artist gallery talks, film, music and dance.

David Kapp, Ascending, 1990, Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 in., North Carolina Museum of Art, Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds 1990 David Kapp

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