Page 2 - Boca Exposure - April '20

Page 2, Boca Exposure

Boca Museum Of Art Exhibit Of ‘Selfies’ from page 1 Neel’s self-portrait is openly Cuba, and Haiti and traveled
accepting of her aging body. in West Africa, Egypt, and
S elf-portraits by When the exhibit actually Brazil. These trips abroad
prominent figures in the opens in the museum, the impacted his work, including
history of portraiture include first thing visitors will see his self-portrait which
Robert Arneson, Thomas is Roger Shimomura’s conveys the influence of
Hart Benton, Deborah m o n u m e n t a l wo r k , Parisian artists.
Kass, Elaine de Kooning, Shimomura Crossing the “These individuals
Alexander Calder, Jasper Delaware, which takes up have approached self-
Johns, Allan Kaprow, the entire entry wall. During portraiture at various
Jacob Lawrence, Louise World War II, Shimomura points in history and using
Nevelson, Irving Penn, and his family were different tools, but their
Robert Rauschenberg, imprisoned at an internment representations ─ especially Lee Simonson Self-Portrait.
Fritz Scholder, and Roger camp, where they became when seen together ─ all Oil on canvas (c. 1912).
Shimomura. Early works Self-Portrait with Rita, by familiar with the widespread raise important questions National Portrait Gallery,
include Edward Steichen, Thomas Hart Benton. Oil on xenophobia taking place at about self-perception Smithsonian Institution. Gift
Edward Hopper, and canvas (c. 1924). National that time. In the painting, and self-reflection,” said of Karl and Jody Simonson;
composer George Gershwin, Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Shimomura cast himself Mirror, Mirror; Mulatta Brandon Brame Fortune, Frame conserved with
who was also a painter. More Institution. Gift of Mr. and as George Washington and Seeking Inner Negress II chief curator, Smithsonian’s funds from the Smithsonian
recent works include Ana Mrs. Jack H. Mooney replaced the Revolutionary by Alison Saar. Woodcut on National Portrait Gallery. Women’s Committee.
Mendieta, Chuck Close, Lois soldiers with Samurai chine-collé (2015). National “Some artists reveal intimate
Dodd, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Alison Saar. warriors, while a silhouette Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian details of their inner lives
The show was organized by the Chief Curator of the of the original painting by Institution through self-portraiture,
National Portrait Gallery, Dr. Brandon Brame Fortune. She Emanuel Leutze haunts the while others use the genre
has been invited to South Florida by the Boca Raton Museum background. to obfuscate their private
of Art to present a special preview lecture on March 24, at The exhibition aims for balanced representation of selves or invent alter egos.”
5:30 p.m. Space is limited – RSVP required. Tickets for people at different points in their life journey. Self Portrait “Eye to I: Self-Portraits
nonmembers are $35; free for members. with Grey Cat was the last self-portrait by Fritz Scholder from the National Portrait
“Eye to I” showcases 60 works in a variety of styles and before his passing, made in Gallery” features a richly
media ranging from caricatures to photographs, from colorful 2003 when he was battling illustrated companion
watercolors to dramatic paintings and time-based media. The complications brought on by volume with an introduction
exhibition traces the process, from gazing into the mirror to diabetes. The dark, moody by Brandon Brame Fortune
looking into the camera; from painted and drawn surfaces canvas features the artist and nearly 150 insightful
to mechanical reproductions such as prints and photographs; boldly facing the viewer as entries on key self-portraits
from static forms to video. he leans on his cane. His in the museum’s collection. Elaine de Kooning Self-
Chosen as the cover for the exhibition catalogue, Maria eyes are covered by tinted The book was published by Portrait. Oil on Masonite
Magdalena Campos-Pons used her own body to map out glasses, and the tubes from the National Portrait Gallery (1946). National Portrait
feelings of translocation from place to place. The bilingual title his oxygen tank are visibly in association with Hirmer Gal le ry, Smit hsonian
is in half-Spanish and means When I am not Here, I am There. running from his nose to the Publishers, and is distributed Institution
She stands with her eyes closed, as though transported between ambiguously shadowy floor, by the University of Chicago
territories while holding on to her Afro-Caribbean talismans. In which has been described as Press.
his sinewy Self Portrait with Rita, Thomas Hart Benton evokes a reference to the “shadow of Untitled, from the series About the Boca Raton Museum of Art: Celebrating its
the type of posturing so prevalent on Instagram today. He was death.” When I am not Here, Estoy 70th anniversary in 2020, the Boca Raton Museum of Art
fascinated with Hollywood and channeled his inner movie star James A. Porter founded alla, by Maria Magdalena encompasses a creative campus that includes the Museum
(the artist had recently seen Douglas Fairbanks in the 1924 film, the field of African American Campos-Pons. Dye diffusion in Mizner Park, Art School, and an Artists Guild. As the
The Thief of Baghdad). art history. He chaired transfer print (1996). “Official Art Museum of the City of Boca Raton,” the
In 1975, Alice Neel began Howard University’s Art National Portrait Gallery, museum has provided seven decades of cultural and artistic
her shocking, endearing, Department and directed Smithsonian Institution. service to the community, and to many visitors from around
and utterly unconventional the university’s art gallery Gift of Julia P. and Horacio the world. Visit bocamuseum.org for more information.
self-portrait that took her from 1953 until his death in Herzberg. María M.
©
five years to complete. She 1970. He studied in France, Campos-Pons
foreshadowed by decades the
use of “this is the real me”
selfies to challenge gender
and body-image stereotypes.
Neel took on the history of
male artists depicting nude
women and flipped it around
completely, with absolute Lois Dodd Self-Portrait. Oil
control of her image. An on Masonite (1989). National
unflinching challenge to the Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
centuries-old convention Institution. Gift of Rebecca
of idealized femininity, Mitchell and Ben Harris.

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