2011 Annual Report - Nasher Museum of Art - Duke University

BUILDING THE CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION:Five Years of AcquisitionsMarch 10 - August 14, 2011 | Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle PavilionIn its first five years, the Nasher Museum has focused onmodern and contemporary art with particular emphasison global, emerging artists of color. In celebration of themuseum’s fifth anniversary, Building the ContemporaryCollection presented the most important contemporaryworks acquired since its founding in 2005. The exhibitionfeatured work by 42 artists, including Christian Boltanski,William Cordova, Noah Davis, Rineke Dijkstra, MarleneDumas, Wyatt Gallery, David Hammons, Barkley L.Hendricks, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, ZwelethuMthethwa, Odili Donald Odita, Dan Perjovschi, DarioRobleto, David Salle, Carolee Schneemann, GarySimmons, Xaviera Simmons, Jeff Sonhouse, EveSussman, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, MickaleneThomas, Bob Thompson, Kara Walker, Jeff Whetstone,Kehinde Wiley, Fred Wilson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,among others. The exhibition reflected the museum’sinterest in the art and culture of the African diaspora,and included works in a variety of media–painting,drawing, photography, sculpture, video and installation.It was curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Patsy R. andRaymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art.RELATED PROGRAMSTOP LEFT (OPPOSITE PAGE): Curator Trevor Schoonmakerstrikes a pose in the gallery with artists Barkley L. Hendricks andMickalene Thomas. Photo by Dr. J Caldwell.TOP RIGHT (OPPOSITE PAGE): Don and Mera Rubell (left)visit the gallery with their grandchildren, daughter-in-lawMichelle Rubell and son Jason Rubell, T’91. Behind them arePurvis Young paintings given to the Nasher Museum fromthe Rubell Family Collection in Miami. Photo by Dr. J Caldwell.BOTTOM: Gallery photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.Exhibition opening and talk with artists Barkley L. Hendricks and Mickalene Thomas and collector Jason Rubell, T’91, Dukealumnus and member of the Nasher Museum’s national Board of Advisors, moderated by curator Trevor Schoonmaker.Artist talk with Carolee Schneemann, who screened four of her films after reading from the new book CorrespondenceCourse: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle, edited, annotated and with an introduction byKristine Stiles, Duke’s France Family Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and published by Duke University Press.Free Family Day event.Supporting Member event and First Thursday gallery talk with Trevor Schoonmaker.First Thursday gallery talk with Juline Chevalier, curator of education.p. 22 Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions p. 23