July 23 2021 #226Founder Rebecca Hoffberger to Step Down as Head of American Visionary Art MuseumAfter 26 years as founder, director and primary curator of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger will be retiring in March 2022. The board has appointed the national firm m/Oppenheim Executive Search to launch an international search for her successor. “After 41 total exhibitions, but 26 thematic ones, I’m passing the baton,” Hoffberger said. “The idea for the museum came to me in 1984, when I was working at Sinai Hospital for People Encouraging People, so it has occupied more than half my life…I think now is the right time.” Rebecca Hoffberger, photo: Chris Myers Hoffberger, who will turn 70 next year, said she intended to step down at the end of 2020 – AVAM’s 25th anniversary — but agreed to stay longer to help see the museum through the worst of the global pandemic. Hoffberger has loved her time at the museum but wants to pursue other interests, including writing a play about the friendship between inventor Nikola Tesla and writer Mark Twain. Her final curated exhibit as director will be “Healing & The Art of Compassion (And the Lack Thereof!),” scheduled for October 9, 2021, to September 4, 2022. It will focus on the twin forces for creating “greater good” in society, healing and compassion. Kickstarter Campaign for Book on Chicago Lake Michigan CarvingsBill Swislow:
View the Kickstarter campaign here. Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York until August 13, 2021Andrew Edlin Gallery presents two parallel exhibitions. "Bruce Bickford: The Upland" is the first New York gallery exhibition of drawings by Bruce Bickford, who will be featured in Raw Vision 108, out in August/September. "Nexus Singularity Takeover" features artworks from the collection of Aarne Anton. Artists include Eugene Andolsek, Charles Benefiel, JJ Cromer, Daniel Martin Diaz, Ionel Talpazan and Purvis Young. Bruce Bickford New Exhibition at Centro de Arte Oliva July 23, 2021 - January 23, 2022 Jean Perdrizet, untitled (Fusée Palan d’Apollo XX ou hélicoptère lunaire ou terrestre), 1971 | mimeograph, ballpoint pen and colored pencil on stamped paper, 61 x 77 cm © André Rocha Curated by António Saint Silvestre and Richard Treger, "EUREKA!" at Centro de Arte Oliva in São João da Madeira, Portugal, brings together works by 50 unorthodox creators, mainly self-taught artists. The exhibition presents an overview of projects and investigations, codes, formulas and theories that convey alternative models of interpretation of reality. Plans and projects of inventions, machines and various vehicles are exhibited, with a vast gallery of planes, cars, trains and UFOs. Artists include André Robillard, Charles Dellschau, François Burland, François Monchâtre, George Widener, Ionel Talpazan, Johann Hauser and Tom Duncan. More at https://centrodearteoliva.pt/ Creative Growth at Nina Johnson, Miamiuntil July 31, 2021 Nina Johnson, Miami, presents "Vibrant", an exhibition of new works by the artists of Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland, CA), the oldest and largest nonprofit art studio for artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities. "Vibrant, 17 artists from Creative Growth", installation view, courtesy www.ninajohnson.com Drawings, paintings, and sculptures created by 17 of Creative Growth’s artists are on show. Artists include Juan Aguilera, Lauren Dare, Dan Miller, Latefa Noorzai, Aurie Ramirez and Ron Veasey. "Vibrant, 17 artists from Creative Growth", installation view, courtesy www.ninajohnson.com See more at www.ninajohnson.com/exhibitions/vibrant-16-artists-from-creative-growth Artist Highlight: |