PAST EXHIBITS
Bearden in the 1960s at the Bearden Foundation Gallery March- July 2006. The artwork created in the decade between 1960-70 is important to understanding why the artist is now known as one of the greatest innovators of the collage medium. Among the works included are abstract paintings on canvas, an early Matisse-like “Le Cirque”, and photomontage from the “Projection” series. Conjuring Bearden, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, March 4, 2006 – July 16, 2006. This exhibition, conceived by Duke University Professor Richard J. Powell, is the first to explore in Bearden's art the theme of the “conjure" woman. Through a combination of spiritual interventions, psychology and herbalism, the "conjurer" or the Caribbean “Obeah Man" transforms the world. This focused and thematic presentation of Bearden's interest in African American spirituality is related to his artistic experimentations with form and technique. It traced his visual musings on African, Caribbean and African American expressive mysticism and examines his magical re-invention – via the collage and photomontage – of pictorial space and time. www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions The Unseen Romare Bearden, a special exhibition of drawings, paintings and prints from the collection of New York collectors and alumnus Russell Goings, Jr., and Evelyn Boulware, was presented at Xavier University in the Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. The exhibit ran from September 24 - November 4, 2005. For more information, contact Xavier University at 513-745-3811 or visit www.xavier.edu/art/gallery.cfm. Romare Bearden: Enchanter in Time, an exhibition of prints organized by the Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, explores Bearden's fascination with the past and use of myths and symbols from the African-American experience. The exhibit was on view from October 29, 2005 - February 5, 2006 at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. For more information, visit http://www.michenerartmuseum.org/exhibits/bearden.php The Art of Romare Bearden Organized by the National Gallery of Art and curated by Ruth Fine, this exhibition toured five major museums in the United States (September 2003 - April 2005). The Art of Romare Bearden was the most comprehensive retrospective ever assembled of the artist's large body of work. The exhibition contained approximately 130 works that explored the complexity and scope of Bearden's evolution and featured many rarely exhibited and/or never before seen works from private collections. The exhibition was organized into several sections: Origins, Circa 1964, Mecklenburg Memories, The City and Its Music, Stories, Women, Monotypes, Collaborations, and Late Work. The exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive 334-page catalogue (The Art of Romare Bearden) published by the National Gallery of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, New York, and a new documentary on Romare Bearden, also produced by the National Gallery of Art. The National Gallery Exhibition and National Tour was made possible with generous support from AT&T. See the panel of museums to the right for a list of venues and schedules. Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art The first time that a major American athlete has exhibited nationally a personal art collection of this scale and magnitude, The Grant Hill Collection includes 46 works by outstanding African-American artists. Several pieces by Romare Bearden are in the Collection, including Serenade (1941), Number 9 (1961), Seed Time (1969) and They That Are Delivered From the Noise of the Archers (1942), which was on tour with The Art of Romare Bearden exhibition. The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art also ran at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, March 4, 2006 – July 16, 2006.
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