U of R’s Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Presents new Exhibitions

This Thursday,  Sept.  3rd, don’t miss the lecture  by Elizabeth Stevens, independent scholar and curator of the exhibition: It’s Only Natural:  The Art of Stanley Boxer.  It kicks off the show, Rememberingstanleyboxer:  A Retrospective 1946 – 2000, now through Oct. 4th.

Here are the details:
The 7p.m., Lecture, Cousins Studio Theatre,
Modlin Center for the Arts
8 to 9 p.m., Reception and preview of Rememberingstanleyboxer:  A Retrospective 1946 – 2000

Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art.
Plus, don’t miss:  Zap! Comix Prints by Robert Crumb
Now – December 13, 2009

Annual Student Exhibition
Now – September 20, 2009

American artist Stanley Boxer (1926-2000) was well known for the exuberant qualities of his thickly brushed abstract paintings, but he also created equally energetic works on paper and sculptures throughout his career.  The more than sixty works chosen for this retrospective, dating from 1946 to 2000, explore his manipulation of surfaces, textures, and colors in various media, and include both figurative and abstract compositions.

Highlights of the exhibition include paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. In the paintings, mostly mixed media on canvas, Boxer combined diverse materials such as strings and pebbles with thickly applied paint to create complex abstract compositions of pattern, texture, and color.  The 1985 painting Lacedplumeinabam shows his use of thick impasto of oil paint to create dramatic overall texture. He gave his paintings titles which were long, run-on sentences, inspired by the work of American poet e.e. cummings.