Bold printmakers from Japan, Maine images by iconic photographer featured at Museum of Art
Koichi Kiyono’s “Cultivation II,” etching on cotton-wool and felt with hand sewing, appears in the Museum of Art exhibition “Redefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers.”
Images of Maine by famed 20th-century photographer Berenice Abbott and prints by Japanese artists known for pushing the boundaries of printmaking media will be exhibited this fall at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art.
Opening Sept. 13 and showing through Dec. 14 are the exhibitions Redefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers and Selections from Berenice Abbott’s “Portrait of Maine.“
Hideki Kimura, whose work is represented in the print show and who co-curated it with Sam Yates, director of the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, where the show originated, discusses the exhibition at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the museum. A reception follows.
“Balancing Act” (c. 1965), gelatin silver print by Berenice Abbott. Museum purchase.
The Abbott images were published in her 1968 book A Portrait of Maine, and the original photographs in Selections were acquired for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ museum’s permanent collection from 2005 to 2007.
The exhibitions mark the reopening of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art following a summer spent installing a new, state-of-the-art LED lighting system designed to both reduce the museum’s environmental footprint and improve the museum viewing experience for visitors.
The museum is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and until 7 p.m. Wednesdays during the academic year. For more information, please call 207-786-6158.
