An original photographic portrait of President-elect Barack Obama will be on view at the Contemporary Museum from January 14 through February 1, 2009. The President-elect commissioned renowned African American artist Dawoud Bey to photograph the portrait, which was taken in the Obama residence in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood in 2008.
President Obama’s portrait will join more than 35 of Dawoud Bey’s other striking portraits in an exhibition titled Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures. Class Pictures will be on view at the Contemporary through Saturday, February 21, 2009.
Admission to the museum is free.
The Contemporary Museum
100 W. Centre Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
410.783.5720
Showing posts with label Dawoud Bey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dawoud Bey. Show all posts
Monday, January 12, 2009
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Art is a Versatile Tool; Use Your Collection to Your Advantage
An Article in Huffington Post about how artists, collectors and institutions can better ‘use’ art to their advantage by Paul Klein
Thursday, December 18, 6 - 7:30 pm
Artists at Work Forum: How to Turn Your Art Into a Career
A panel discussion tomorrow evening at Chicago’s Cultural Center. Paul Klein will be sitting in with Dawoud Bey, Juan Angel Chavez, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Joyce Owens discussing How to Turn Your Art into a Career, talking about “what they do to have their art take care of them”. The forum is open to the public, and admission is free.
Moderator Paul Klein is a curator, art journalist, activist and former gallerist who has long been an art advocate and proponent for art in Chicago.
First Floor Garland Room
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street
Chicago, IL
Thursday, December 18, 6 - 7:30 pm
Artists at Work Forum: How to Turn Your Art Into a Career
A panel discussion tomorrow evening at Chicago’s Cultural Center. Paul Klein will be sitting in with Dawoud Bey, Juan Angel Chavez, Tony Fitzpatrick, and Joyce Owens discussing How to Turn Your Art into a Career, talking about “what they do to have their art take care of them”. The forum is open to the public, and admission is free.
Moderator Paul Klein is a curator, art journalist, activist and former gallerist who has long been an art advocate and proponent for art in Chicago.
First Floor Garland Room
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street
Chicago, IL
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Contemporary Museum, Walters Art Museum Offer Dawoud Bey Exhibitions
DAWOUD BEY: CLASS PICTURES
December 13, 2008 - February 21, 2009
Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project
Beginning Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, simultaneous exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum and the Contemporary Museum celebrate the works of renowned photographer Dawoud Bey. At the Walters, Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project will feature contemporary photographs by Bey juxtaposed with historic portraits from the museum’s private collection. Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures, a companion exhibition of more than 40 of Bey’s portraits, will be on view at the Contemporary Museum. Both exhibitions run through Saturday, Feb. 16, 2009.
Portraits Re/Examined is the result of a three-week summer residency at the Walters during which Bey and a diverse group of 12 Baltimore-area public and private school students collaborated to curate the exhibition. The exhibition will explore how race, class, and identity have been addressed in portraiture throughout history. These themes became central to the teens’ experience and the project as a whole. The Walters’ collection is the basis for discussion about the role of museums in society and the relationship that contemporary art has in museums with historical collections. The exhibition will be on display in the museum’s fourth floor Centre Street Drawings Gallery.
To create Portraits Re/Examined, students worked with Bey to select historic drawings, paintings, and portrait miniatures from the Walters’ collection, positioning them alongside 10 of Bey’s similarly evocative portraits. The student-curators also will create auxiliary components for the exhibition, including a blog, Facebook page, podcast series, and cell phone audio tour.
Both exhibits open with a public lecture by Bey and his teen protégés at the Walters on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. The artist discussed his unique approach to portraiture and the process of creating Portraits Re/Examined.
On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, at 3 p.m. in the Walters’ Graham Auditorium, Bey will be in dialogue with fellow contemporary photographer Carrie Mae Weems. They will discuss both exhibitions as well as the range of Bey’s photographs from 1975 to the present. Admission to this discussion is free for members of the Walters, $10 for non-members, and $5 for students.
The Walters Art Museum
410-547-9000
600 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
The Contemporary Museum
100 West Centre Street,
between Cathedral and Howard Street
Baltimore, Maryland
410.783.5720
December 13, 2008 - February 21, 2009
Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project
Beginning Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008, simultaneous exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum and the Contemporary Museum celebrate the works of renowned photographer Dawoud Bey. At the Walters, Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project will feature contemporary photographs by Bey juxtaposed with historic portraits from the museum’s private collection. Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures, a companion exhibition of more than 40 of Bey’s portraits, will be on view at the Contemporary Museum. Both exhibitions run through Saturday, Feb. 16, 2009.
Portraits Re/Examined is the result of a three-week summer residency at the Walters during which Bey and a diverse group of 12 Baltimore-area public and private school students collaborated to curate the exhibition. The exhibition will explore how race, class, and identity have been addressed in portraiture throughout history. These themes became central to the teens’ experience and the project as a whole. The Walters’ collection is the basis for discussion about the role of museums in society and the relationship that contemporary art has in museums with historical collections. The exhibition will be on display in the museum’s fourth floor Centre Street Drawings Gallery.
To create Portraits Re/Examined, students worked with Bey to select historic drawings, paintings, and portrait miniatures from the Walters’ collection, positioning them alongside 10 of Bey’s similarly evocative portraits. The student-curators also will create auxiliary components for the exhibition, including a blog, Facebook page, podcast series, and cell phone audio tour.
Both exhibits open with a public lecture by Bey and his teen protégés at the Walters on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. The artist discussed his unique approach to portraiture and the process of creating Portraits Re/Examined.
On Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, at 3 p.m. in the Walters’ Graham Auditorium, Bey will be in dialogue with fellow contemporary photographer Carrie Mae Weems. They will discuss both exhibitions as well as the range of Bey’s photographs from 1975 to the present. Admission to this discussion is free for members of the Walters, $10 for non-members, and $5 for students.
The Walters Art Museum
410-547-9000
600 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
The Contemporary Museum
100 West Centre Street,
between Cathedral and Howard Street
Baltimore, Maryland
410.783.5720
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