Atomic Afterimage opens at Boston University Gallery
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Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art
Curated by Keely Orgeman, Boston University Adelson Fellow
September 5 – November 2, 2008
Opening reception: Thursday, September 4, 6:00-8:00pm
Participating artists: Michael Anastassiades, Bruce Connor, Anthony Dunne, Joy Garnett, Vincent Johnson, Michael Light, Robert Longo, Richard Misrach, Trevor Paglen, Fiona Raby
Catalogue available
Taken together, this powerful selection of contemporary artworks constitutes a nuclear aesthetic that was—and continues to be—central to the politics of spectacle and secrecy.
Boston University Art Gallery (Stone Gallery)
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Opening at the Boston University Art Gallery on September 5, “ATOMIC AFTERIMAGE: COLD WAR IMAGERY IN CONTEMPORARY ART” brings together work by 10 artists — among them Bruce Conner, Joy Garnett, and Richard Misrach — who reinterpret images from the era of above-ground nuclear testing (1945–1962). Garnett bases apocalyptic paintings on declassified photographs of nuclear explosions. Conner, in one fine example, uses his skillful way with collage to merge a figure wearing a military jacket with an iconic image of mushroom clouds from the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, reanimating (and giving a psychological dimension) to an image of power and destruction that might not seem as safely far in the past as it used to. [via Time Bombs, Randi Hopkins, The Phoenix, 8/27/08]
Boston University Art Gallery Gallery Talks
@ Boston University College of Fine Arts:
BUAG at the Stone Gallery (Boston University Art Gallery)
Discussion with Joy Garnett
Gallery talk.
Friday, October 24, 4:00pm
Discussion with curator, Boston University Adelson Fellow Keely Orgeman
Keely Orgeman, curator of the exhibit, will lead a discussion of the art and explore the conception of the exhibit.
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