FRONT ROOM: ELLSWORTH KELLY
November 14, 2007 – February 17, 2008
Free exhibition
The BMA's Front Room series continues with a focus exhibition of select paintings and works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly. Four or five major works by Kelly drawn from the Museum's collection are presented with a major promised gift and other works from private collections in the Baltimore area. The artist's powerful shaped canvases, which defied traditional notions of framing and symmetry in paintings, will transform the Front Room into a spare and spacious environment for viewing art, and one that allows the sculptural dimension of his work to come forth.
PRINTED SCULPTURE/SCULPTED PRINTS
November 14, 2007 – March 30, 2008
Free exhibition
Approximately 20 works from the BMA's outstanding print collection, as well as several related, small-scale statues explore how sculpture was represented in European prints from the mid 16th through 18th centuries. Images of some of the most famous classical and Renaissance sculptures in Europe are included, from a pair of woodcuts showing Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines to delicate but powerful renderings of Michelangelo's early Pieta and his late Lamentation. Printmakers imbued these two-dimensional works with as much grandeur as their three-dimensional counterparts by introducing narrative settings, inventive shadowing and coloring devices, and new production techniques to challenge other genres and elevate printmaking as an art form. Students from The Johns Hopkins University worked closely with BMA Staff to produce the exhibition, acting as curators, designers, educators, and marketers for the project.
