The museum will be CLOSED from June 15 – July 15 for maintenance.
The administrative office will remain open.
Jump Cut Pop
Evans + Fukui + Hammond + Paolozzi + Rosler + Yokoo
July 22 – October 4, 2009
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will present the exhibition Jump Cut Pop featuring works by modern and contemporary artists inspired by the Pop Art movement.
Organized by the Haggerty and featuring over fifty works, Jump Cut Pop includes works from the mid 1960s to 2008. The artists confront contemporary social, political, and historical issues utilizing poster design, printmaking, painting, photography, collage and video. The works are typically graphic in execution and palette, presenting complex image relationships in multi-layered collaged formats. Works by Eduardo Paolozzi, Tadanori Yokoo and Jane Hammond are drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. Acquired in the early 1980s, the two portfolios by Eduardo Paolozzi, General Dynamic F.U.N, 1970 and Conditional Probability Machine, 1970 and the vintage offset lithographs by international recognized graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo will be presented at the Haggerty for the first time along with works on loan from museums, galleries and private collections. Artists also included in Jump Cut Pop are Cliff Evans, Nobu Fukui, and Martha Rosler.
The exhibition explores the strategies of six artists who juxtapose photo-based images drawn from popular culture with text and/or seemingly unrelated popular images. The artists draw from a confluence of sources, exerting a degree of compositional freedom with little conscious regard for historical continuity or visual hierarchy. The juxtapositions often suggest that images are interesting unto themselves, divorced from their inherent meaning by their proximity to other completely unrelated images. Appropriated photos and comics are among the sources most favored by this group. Pop art is the underlying influence for these artists. Pop began in the mid-50s in Britain and the late 50s in the United States. The movement challenged the importance of the artist’s hand that was synonymous with Abstract Expressionism, in lieu of celebrating banal images of popular culture twinged with irony. Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), one of the artists included in the exhibition, first utilized the word “pop” in a 1952 collage. Paolozzi was a member of the Independent Group, the British collective of artists who fully embraced American popular culture and mass advertising as the source of their subject matter.
An opening talk, Always Coming Home, by Martha Rosler will be given on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6 p.m. Currently an instructor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York, earned her B.A. at Brooklyn College in 1965 and her M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego in 1974. Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, performance and writes criticism. Rosler has ten published books including photographs, texts, and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. She has produced numerous other "Word Works" and photo-text publications, now analyzing imagery of women or exploring responses to repression, crisis, and war.
JANE HAMMOND
(American, b. 1950)
Tabula Rosa, 2001
Color inkjet print
75 1/2 x 30 1/4”
2009.1
Museum Purchase with funds from Mrs. Martha Smith by exchange
Whatever is There is a Truth
Robert Rauschenberg’s Prints
December 12, 2008 - October 4, 2009
museum closed for maintenance June 15 - July 15. 2009
The Haggerty is hosting an exhibition of prints by revolutionary postwar American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) in tribute to his life and legacy as a printmaker.
Central to the American art scene from 1950 until his death earlier this year, Rauschenberg was widely regarded as a principal bridge between Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and Pop art in the 1960s, but he did not subscribe to any narrow doctrine. Rauschenberg worked in a variety of disciplines and mediums including printmaking, painting, sculpture, photography, dance, technology and performance art that has influenced generations of artists. His deep and abiding interest in printmaking facilitated a major revival in the medium, and his achievements in lithography were instrumental in the creation of a contemporary market for prints.
Rauschenberg expressed social, cultural and political ideas through his art. The Stoned Moon series of 1969-1970, featured in this exhibition, reflects his artistic response to witnessing the lift-off of Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center in 1969 at the invitation of NASA. Rauschenberg began to silkscreen paintings in 1962. In 1963 at the age of 37, he was given his first career retrospective by the Jewish Museum, New York, and was awarded the Grand Prize for Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale. He spent much of the remainder of the 1960s dedicated to more collaborative projects including printmaking, performance, choreography, set design, and art-and-technology works.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, American (1925-2008)
White Walk, 1970
From the Stoned Moon Series
Lithograph
42 ¼ x 29 ½”
Edition 8/53
Printed by Gemini, G.E.L.
2008.17.8
Museum Purchase with funds from Mrs. Martha Smith (by exchange)
more images from the exhibition
Guest lecturer Robert S. Mattison, Ph.D. will speak on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 6 p.m.
Dr. Mattison is the Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of art history at Lafayette College. Author of four books, including Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries (2003), Dr. Mattison has also written over fifty articles and exhibition catalogs about modern art. He is the recipient of the Sears-Roebuck Award for teaching and scholarship and the Jones Lecture Award.