As spring semester begins at Oberlin College, the Allen Memorial Art Museum will offer a variety of programs in February, along with the opening of five new exhibitions. The following is a summary; please contact us for more information and high-resolution images.
FIRST THURSDAYS EVENING HOURS
February 2, 5 to 8 p.m.
Galleries remain open until 8 p.m. during monthly evening hours at the Allen Memoriam Art Museum; free opening reception for spring exhibitions. At 5:30 p.m., a welcome program will be held for African objects in a new installation. African drumming will be led by Adenike Sharpley, artist in residence in dance and Africana Studies, with Matt Rarey, assistant professor, and Oberlin students in his seminar “African Art in Museums: From Collection to Display.”
TUESDAY TEA TALK
February 14, 2:30 p.m.
How does photography construct stereotypes? Mir Finkelman (OC ’16), curatorial assistant in the Office of Academic Programs, discusses this artistic medium in relation to works in the exhibition Images in Black and White, which she curated. This Tuesday Tea Talk is followed by tea and cookies in the East Gallery.
SUNDAY OBJECT TALKS
These informal, student-led talks each focus on one work on view. Spring semester talks will be held at 2 p.m. on the following Sundays:
February 5, 12, 19, and 26
March 5 and 12
April 2, 9, 23, and 30
BLACK HISTORY MONTH TALKS
At 2:30 p.m. on four Sundays in February, Oberlin College students will speak about African objects newly installed in the East Ambulatory.
February 5: Sallay Kallon (OC ’17), Sowei Masks
February 12: Alexandra Nicome (OC ’17), Oga and the Masses, El Anatsui
February 19: Shani Strand (OC ’17), Yombe Maternity Figure
February 26: Arianna Crawford (OC ’18), Gelede Mask
FIVE NEW EXHIBITIONS OPEN AT THE ALLEN
Ripin Gallery, Through May 21
This exhibition traces the history of an important group of woodblock printmakers in Japan, the Utagawa school. Founded in the Edo Period (1603–1868) by Utagawa Toyoharu, this lineage went on to produce some of the most celebrated print designers in Japanese art. The 52 prints on view include dynamic actor prints by Toyokuni and Kunisada, the renowned landscape prints of Hiroshige, the dramatic narratives of Kuniyoshi, and the creative and technical brilliance of Yoshitoshi. Utagawa works from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries demonstrate the links between master print designers and their students, who often became masters themselves, as well as how the school adapted to rapid modernization during Japan’s Meiji Period (1868–1912).
EXPLORING RECIPROCITY: THE POWER OF ANIMALS IN NON-WESTERN ART
Ripin Gallery, Through May 21
Animals act as companions and contributors to human life in this exhibition featuring works ranging from Japanese woodblock prints to whalebone sculptures of indigenous North America. Many non-Western communities today draw on these relationships as a resource in the face of colonialism, exploitation, and environmental devastation.
THE ARCHAIC CHARACTER OF SEAL SCRIPT
Ripin Gallery, Through May 21
The historical and artistic dimensions of seal script, the oldest form of Chinese writing, are explored in works spanning centuries.
FORM AND LIGHT: BRETT WESTON PHOTOGRAPHS
Ripin Gallery, Through May 21
Born in Los Angeles in 1911, Brett Weston became known as a photographer of landscapes and still life. In 1925, he and his father, renowned American photographer Edward Weston, traveled to Mexico, where he met painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, along with photographer Tina Modotti. Many of the works were donated by the Christian Keesee Collection and the Brett Weston Archive.
IMAGES IN BLACK AND WHITEEducation Hallway, through July 2
How does photography, as a medium, art form, and documentary method, construct identity and stereotype? Six photographs explore how imagery in contemporary American media establishes visual expectations associated with such concepts as the “beautiful,” the “moral,” and even the “criminal.”
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