Posts Tagged ‘Rose Art Museum’

Meryl at the Rose

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Hun­dreds of peo­ple came to MERYL BRATER’s Memo­r­i­al Exhi­bi­tion at the Rose Art Muse­um. We all believed that Meryl would live on at the Rose, and that many gen­er­a­tions to come would have the chance to know her through her art. To close the muse­um now would be a ter­ri­ble blow to every­one who loved her – to every­one who trust­ed their trea­sure to the Rose.

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Judy Kensley McKie and Todd McKie

Friday, June 15th, 1990

In 1969, TODD and JUDY MCKIE paint­ed ban­ners with the signs of the Zodi­ac for Wood­stock, which peo­ple pulled down to use as tents and blan­kets in the rain. Judy began mak­ing fur­ni­ture in the ear­ly 70s to fur­nish their apart­ment. One day she impul­sive­ly carved two crouch­ing fig­ures into the arms of a butcherblock couch. 

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Ruins at the Rose

Friday, December 8th, 1989

The 80’s began with big, shiny, self-con­fi­dent paint­ings, but they are end­ing with of shreds and tat­ters, and anx­ious pre­mo­ni­tions of a ruined world. They remind­ed me of the end­ing of William Gib­son’s sci­ence fic­tion nov­el Count Zero, when a bril­liant com­put­er dis­tills the few remain­ing frag­ments of a ruined civ­i­liza­tion into exquis­ite lit­tle con­struc­tions. Or these lines from a Shake­speare son­net; “bare, ruined choirs, where late the sweet bird sang”.

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