Part II of “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded” features such established artists as María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Julie Dash, Carroll Parrott Blue, Senga Nengudi, Berni Searle, Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker, and introduces works by emerging artists including Elizabeth Axtman, Zoë Charlton, Lauren Kelley and Xaviera Simmons. Promising to be equally engaging, Part II continues the explorations raised in Part I, examining such subjects as classic cinema and the male gaze.
It will be on view at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art through May 24, 2008. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will present the exhibition from April 25 through July 12, 2009.
Curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded” traces the evolution of video presentation over three decades, chronicling the critical contributions of black women artists to the field of contemporary art. This collaboration encapsulates the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s unique mission as the only museum in the nation that focuses on works by and about women of the African Diaspora. Additionally, the exhibition reinforces the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s commitment to providing a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past to document new directions in the field of contemporary art.
For more information, please contact:
Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., Director
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
350 Spelman Lane, Box 1526
Atlanta, GA 30314
(404) 270-5607 (phone)
( 404)270.5980 (fax) museum@spelman.edu
Exhibition-Related Events for Cinema Remixed and Reloaded Part II
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 630 p.m.
Opening Reception
Saturday, January 26, 2008, noon to 3 p.m.
Teachers' Workshop
Beyond the Blackboard programs are made possible by a generous grant from The John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Walk with Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph. D.,
Director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
In Focus: Big Gurl by Lauren Kelley and Easy to Remember by Lorna Simpson
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Conversation with the Curators
An informal conversation with Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph. D., Director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and Valerie Cassell Oliver, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, moderated by Karen Comer Lowe, Director, Comer Art Advisory, LLC.
Thursday, March 6, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Walk with Anne Collins Smith, Curator of Collections, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
In Focus: Video Arts and Classic Cinema
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, one of the most significant artists from post-Revolutionary Cuba, creates work that explores the role of history and memory in shaping identity. Her lecture will focus on recent projects and the video installation titled History of a People Who Were Not Heroes: A Town Portrait (1994), which is featured in Cinema Remixed and Reloaded.
Organized in partnership with Atlanta Celebrates Photography
Images from Part I
Click thumbnail images to view select clips from artists featured in the exhibition
