HOLY SHIT, SAVANNAH!
I can't wait to go home now for this!
Inaugural Exhibitions at the Jepson Center for the Arts
The Kirk Varnedoe Collection
March 10 - May 21, 2006
With the opening of the Jepson Center for the Arts, the Telfair will also unveil a major gift to the permanent collection: a group of over 20 works on paper by major contemporary artists assembled in honor of the late scholar, MoMA curator, and Savannah native, Kirk Varnedoe. The collection includes works by Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Richard Avedon, and other major figures whose work was highly regarded by Kirk Varnedoe. The Varnedoe Collection significantly enhances the Telfair’s holdings of important contemporary art, and will stand as a lasting tribute to Kirk Varnedoe’s influential career. The opening of the collection will be accompanied by a major catalogue published by the Grenfell Press in New York, containing an essay by critic Adam Gopnik and interviews with each of the artists featured in the collection, as well as full color reproductions of each work. A special reception and programs celebrating the Kirk Varnedoe Collection will be held on May 5 and 6, 2006.
Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories
March 10 - June 4, 2006
Robert Rauschenberg ranks as one of the most prominent and influential artists of the 20th century. Associated with the Pop Art movement in his early career, Rauschenberg is celebrated for assemblages and collage-based works, which often incorporate ordinary cast-off or mass-produced objects. His fusion of imagery and objects effectively blurs the boundaries between traditional art-making genres and methods, redefining conventional notions of painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and performance art. The works included in Scenarios and Short Stories, produced in the last five years, reflect Rauschenberg’s unmistakable collage-based style and distinctive repertoire of images. The objects suggest the random connectedness of commonplace scenes, which in Rauschenberg’s hands are imbued with dignity and significance.
Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories, along with the concurrent Darryl Pottorf and Christopher Rauschenberg exhibitions, were organized by the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Darryl Pottorf: A Perspective
March 10 - June 4, 2006
Born in 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Darryl Pottorf grew up in Fort Myers, Florida. A former studio assistant of Robert Rauschenberg, Darryl Pottorf has been creating complex works for more than 30 years. Like Rauschenberg, Pottorf’s work combines elements of various media, including sculpture, painting, and photography. He is particularly noted for large-scale works completed on unusual supports such as polylaminate, lexan, and aluminum. With each of these media he employs a photo-transfer process and a collage aesthetic that has come to characterize his oeuvre.
Pottorf has collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg on a series of joint projects and exhibitions, and is additionally a practicing architect. He designed Robert Rauschenberg’s home and studio as well as his own, and, like Rauschenberg, he lives and works in Captiva, Florida. His work is featured in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, and many others.
Christopher Rauschenberg
March 10 - June 4, 2006
Christopher Rauschenberg is a preeminent Oregon photographer and the son of Robert Rauschenberg. The photographs on view in the Telfair’s exhibition of his work were created primarily in Europe and South America, and reflect the artist’s signature technique of shooting a scene sequentially and mounting the resulting prints in a disjunctive line, recalling his father’s collage-based technique.
Christopher Rauschenberg established the first gallery devoted to photography in Portland, and has had over 55 one-person shows in Europe, South America, and the United States.
Inaugural Exhibitions at the Jepson Center for the Arts
The Kirk Varnedoe Collection
March 10 - May 21, 2006
With the opening of the Jepson Center for the Arts, the Telfair will also unveil a major gift to the permanent collection: a group of over 20 works on paper by major contemporary artists assembled in honor of the late scholar, MoMA curator, and Savannah native, Kirk Varnedoe. The collection includes works by Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Richard Avedon, and other major figures whose work was highly regarded by Kirk Varnedoe. The Varnedoe Collection significantly enhances the Telfair’s holdings of important contemporary art, and will stand as a lasting tribute to Kirk Varnedoe’s influential career. The opening of the collection will be accompanied by a major catalogue published by the Grenfell Press in New York, containing an essay by critic Adam Gopnik and interviews with each of the artists featured in the collection, as well as full color reproductions of each work. A special reception and programs celebrating the Kirk Varnedoe Collection will be held on May 5 and 6, 2006.
Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories
March 10 - June 4, 2006
Robert Rauschenberg ranks as one of the most prominent and influential artists of the 20th century. Associated with the Pop Art movement in his early career, Rauschenberg is celebrated for assemblages and collage-based works, which often incorporate ordinary cast-off or mass-produced objects. His fusion of imagery and objects effectively blurs the boundaries between traditional art-making genres and methods, redefining conventional notions of painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and performance art. The works included in Scenarios and Short Stories, produced in the last five years, reflect Rauschenberg’s unmistakable collage-based style and distinctive repertoire of images. The objects suggest the random connectedness of commonplace scenes, which in Rauschenberg’s hands are imbued with dignity and significance.
Robert Rauschenberg: Scenarios and Short Stories, along with the concurrent Darryl Pottorf and Christopher Rauschenberg exhibitions, were organized by the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Darryl Pottorf: A Perspective
March 10 - June 4, 2006
Born in 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Darryl Pottorf grew up in Fort Myers, Florida. A former studio assistant of Robert Rauschenberg, Darryl Pottorf has been creating complex works for more than 30 years. Like Rauschenberg, Pottorf’s work combines elements of various media, including sculpture, painting, and photography. He is particularly noted for large-scale works completed on unusual supports such as polylaminate, lexan, and aluminum. With each of these media he employs a photo-transfer process and a collage aesthetic that has come to characterize his oeuvre.
Pottorf has collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg on a series of joint projects and exhibitions, and is additionally a practicing architect. He designed Robert Rauschenberg’s home and studio as well as his own, and, like Rauschenberg, he lives and works in Captiva, Florida. His work is featured in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, and many others.
Christopher Rauschenberg
March 10 - June 4, 2006
Christopher Rauschenberg is a preeminent Oregon photographer and the son of Robert Rauschenberg. The photographs on view in the Telfair’s exhibition of his work were created primarily in Europe and South America, and reflect the artist’s signature technique of shooting a scene sequentially and mounting the resulting prints in a disjunctive line, recalling his father’s collage-based technique.
Christopher Rauschenberg established the first gallery devoted to photography in Portland, and has had over 55 one-person shows in Europe, South America, and the United States.