Visit Eugene Martin: The Creative Act at LSU MOA (April 7–October 2, 2022) and create your own inspired collage at home using these activity steps!
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Exhibition
IMAGE: Detail of Candice Lin, La Charada China (Tobacco Version), 2019
Burnaway: Candice Lin at LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge
Burnaway features Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers in this article. Click here to read.
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IMAGE: Carla Edwards, Bonfire, 2017, American flags, bleach, nylon dye, 124 × 112 in., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.20
225 Magazine: High-profile contemporary exhibit opens March 10 at LSU MOA
225 Magazine covers State of the Art: Record exhibition at LSU Museum of Art. Click here to read.
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IMAGE: Mark Messersmith (American, b. 1955), Summer 2010, 2010, mixed media on canvas with predella boxes and carved wood, Gift of the Artist, L2021.12a,b
Closer Look: Mark Messersmith's Summer 2010
in Exhibition
Now on view in LSU MOA’s Art in Louisiana: Views into the Collection landscape gallery is Mark Messersmith’s Summer 2010, a sculptural painting based on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Learn more about this work’s symbolic imagery in this closer look blog post by LSU MOA Graduate Assistant Kirsten Campbell.
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Ocula Magazine features Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers
Read this interview by Ocula to learn more about Candice Lin's artistic practice and exhibitions including The Agnotology of Tigers now on view at LSU MOA until March 20, 2022.
Read MoreObject Guide for Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers
in Exhibition
Learn about the objects in Candice Lin's La Charada China (Tobacco Version) installation and the history of these objects and their relationship to indentured Chinese laborers and how they reveal long forgotten (or suppressed) aspects of global trade.
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225 Magazine: Visiting artist's work at LSU Museum of art grapples with history
225 Magazine covers Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers at LSU Museum of Art. Click here to read.
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NOW ON VIEW (pictured here in LSU MOA’s Art in Louisiana: Views into the Collection Intro Gallery): Mary Lee Bendolph (American, b. 1935), Untitled (Strip Quilt), 2009, cotton, corduroy, velvet, Purchased with funds from the Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists, LSUMOA 2021.10
Closer Look: Strip Quilt by Mary Lee Bendolph
in Exhibition
LSU Museum of Art recently acquired a quilt by Mary Lee Bendolph, one of the foremost strip quilters associated with Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Bendolph’s striking compositions reject traditional methods of symmetry and uniformity, instead embracing abstraction through the improvisational use of geometry. Learn more about it in this closer look by LSU MOA Graduate Assistant Kirsten Campbell and view it today in our Art in Louisiana Intro Gallery!
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IMAGE (above): Marcel Pardo Ariza, Linda, Lee & Dorsey, Louis (1988, 2018), 2018, mounted inkjet print, ash artist frame, Twilight Blue paint, 58 × 29 in., Courtesy of the artist
State of the Art: Record from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Opens March 10 at LSU Museum of Art
State of the Art: Record from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Opens March 10 at LSU Museum of Art. Read the full press release.
Read MoreLSU Cornerstone features The Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists
LSU Cornerstone featured The Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists in the 2021 Winter Issue. Read an interview and watch a video with LSU MOA Curatorial Fellow Clarke Brown and former LSU MOA Curator Courtney Taylor.
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LPB Art Rocks! The Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists
in Exhibition
The Winifred and Kevin P. Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists supports growth of LSU Museum of Art’s permanent collection by funding acquisitions of works by Black, Indigenous, and Latinx artists, including those of marginalized sexualities, gender identities, and communities. LPB Art Rocks! talks to representatives from the museum including Clarke Brown, a Curatorial Fellow, who is specializing in diversity and inclusion in the arts.
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Form & Fire featured in Ceramics Monthly
Check out ceramic works from Form & Fire: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection at LSU Museum of Art featured in the October 2021 issue of Ceramics Monthly.
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Closer Look at Sonya Clark's "French Braid and Cornrow" by Clarke Brown
in Exhibition
Sonya Clark is a textile and social practice artist who uses everyday objects to implicate the construction of empire and speak about the afterlife of slavery. Recently, LSU MOA acquired one of Clark’s pieces as part of the Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists entitled French Braid and Cornrow, which is currently on view. Read this closer look at the work by LSU MOA Curatorial Fellow Clarke Brown.
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Candice Lin, La Charada China (Tobacco Version), 2019, cement with casein paint, welded steel table frame, tobacco, ceramics, distillation system (distilling a tincture of tobacco, sugar, tea, and poppy), poppy pod putty, sugarcane, white sugar, cacao, sage, ackee, oak gall, Anadenanthera, dong quai, California clay, Dominican Republic clay, metal parts, bucket, pumps, tubing, dried indigo, glass slides, bottles, drawings, tile, rubber, wood, Courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly Gallery, Photography by Ian Byer-Gamber
Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers Opening October 20
Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers opens October 20, 2021 / This year's collaboration with the LSU School of Art features visiting artist Candice Lin. Her exhibition, The Agnotology of Tigers, will feature recent works based on archival images from LSU (Chinese Bandits) alongside a new configuration the installation La Charada China. Lin’s installation illuminates’ histories of social violence and a politics of forgetting that obscures the history of indentured Chinese labor and lingering stereotypes.
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Ceramics Now Magazine features Form & Fire and The Boneyard
Form & Fire: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection and The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching Collection featured online for Ceramics Now magazine. Click here to read.
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