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Brooks Outside: Pour Me Another

Brooks Outside: Pour Me Another

April 16 - May 2

Operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design, LA-based Ball-Nogues Studio brings you 'Brooks Outside: Pour Me Another.' For Pour Me Another, the studio experiments with “the pour,” which resonates with such mid-century abstract painters as Jackson Pollock and contemporary sculptors and designers like Lynda Benglis and Gaetano Pesce. BNS pours tinted urethane foam in multiple layers to produce monumental structures that are aesthetically vibrant and structurally wind resistant.

Capturing Nature: Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints

Capturing Nature: Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints

On view through May 9

This exhibit showcases a selection of Japanese woodblock prints from your collection at the Brooks which focus on the landscapes and nature of Japan during the 19th century. Ukiyo-e—or “floating world”-style prints—depict the worldly pleasures of 17th through 19th century Japanese society. Japanese printmakers—including Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), whose works are seen in this exhibition—captured the tranquility of the world around them, choosing subject matter such as blossoming trees, ships afloat on the ocean, and the iconic Mount Fuji. Characterized by simple lines and forms, flat planes of color, and foreshortened compositions, Ukiyo-e prints exemplify a uniquely Japanese style.

L'Affichomania: The Passion For French Posters

L'Affichomania: The Passion For French Posters

On view through May 30

L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters was organized by The Richard H. Driehaus Museum and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC | Presented by The Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation | Supported by The Doris S. and Hubert Kiersky Charitable Remainder Trust, The Scheidt Family, and Gaskill Strategies

Memphis Artists In Real Time

Memphis Artists In Real Time

On view through June 27

How do artists navigate conflict in real time? For Memphis photojournalists Johnathan “Malik” Martin and Andrea Morales, the answer may seem, at first, simple. Their job is to take pictures that tell a story to be used in digital or print journalism. In these examples, viewers experience powerful stories about Memphis during “Safer at Home” and the various crises that ensued after the pandemic began in March through the presidential election of November 2020.

Power and Absence: Women in Europe, 1500 - 1680

Power and Absence: Women in Europe, 1500 - 1680

Currently on view

This reimagining of the Schilling Gallery explores the representation of women in Europe from around 1500 to 1680, known as the Renaissance and Early Baroque period. Most of the works in this room have been made by men. Women are represented as untouchable ideals, threatening monsters, enterprising community leaders, ornamental accessories to power, and models of faith. Portraits of men, meanwhile, express their power, talents, or intellect.

Rotunda Projects: E.V. Day - Divas Ascending

Rotunda Projects: E.V. Day - Divas Ascending

On view through March 14

Artist E.V. Day has repurposed costumes from the New York City Opera archives to make Divas Ascending, a series of sculptures that transform familiar icons of women’s empowerment and entrapment into new objects that confound conventional readings of these clichés. Using tension to suspend, stretch, and shred garments and to create forms that the artist likens to futurist abstract paintings in three dimensions, Day has created work that transforms rigid symbols into a range of emotions: anxiety, ecstasy, liberation, and release. E.V. Day American, b. 1967 Manon – Ghost Angel, 2009 Costume of Manon from Massenet’s Manon made of tulle, silk, embroidery and lace worn by Beverly Sills from New York City Opera. Costume suspended with monofilament and stainless steel hardware on steel armature. ©2009, all rights reserved E.V. Day

Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis

Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis

Currently on view

Victor Ekpuk, a Nigerian American artist, painted a mural for the new African art galleries in March 2017. His art is inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria.

Carroll Cloar Gallery

Carroll Cloar Gallery

Currently on view

In honor of Carroll Cloar and to commemorate the museum’s hundredth anniversary, the Brooks Museum created a gallery dedicated to his art.

Arts of Global Africa

Arts of Global Africa

On view through October 3

The arts of Africa are as varied as the continent itself, which encompasses over fifty independent countries and thousands of languages. This diversity is reflected in the exceptional works of art on view, most of which are on long-term loan from the Newark Museum’s extensive African art collection. Bringing together historic and contemporary works in a range of different media, the selection of works presents an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry.

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