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Lipstick Traces: Women in the Collection

"Lipstick Traces: Women in the Collection" is a celebration of outstanding work by women artists in the Daum’s permanent collection, including signature compositions by Helen Frankenthaler, Betty Woodman, Pat Steir, Ruth Duckworth, and Michiko Itatani, among many others. The exhibition begs the question, Does gender influence creativity in the visual arts? At this point in ...

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Elana Herzog: Dewarped & Unweft

This mid-career survey reviews Herzog’s mixed-media sculptures and installations with seventeen works that date from 1996 to the present. A highlight of the survey is a site-specific installation created for the Daum Museum. Herzog’s oeuvre is centered on artworks that employ found materials associated with everyday domestic lift. She is best known for her manipulation ...

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Androgyny: New Work by Sergei Isupov

Sergei Isupov is renowned for his technically accomplished ceramic sculpture, whose complexly illustrated surfaces often depict figures and settings painted realistically but with a dreamlike strangeness. This exhibition features Isupov’s latest body of work, including fourteen large-scale ceramics heads and related drawings. Each subject has the particularity of portraiture, where individual facial expressions subtly reveal ...

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Marc Leuthold, Sculpture, 1999-2010

This retrospective examines Leuthold’s signature work comprised by intricately carved ceramic discs, wheels, cones, and hemispheres that evoke metaphysical and cosmic associations. The show will also feature a room-sized installation specifically created for this exhibition.

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2010 Annual Student Exhibition

  This exhibition consists of over 100 pieces by State Fair Community College Art Majors. The exhibition will be juried by a well-known art world personality. This is a wonderful opportunity to support a State Fair Community College student by purchasing a piece of artwork from the exhibition.

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Leaving & Waving: Photographs by Deanna Dikeman

For over 20 years, Dikeman has compulsively trained her camera on her parents and their home environment in suburban Iowa, recording in detail their daily routine: mornings at the breakfast table, household chores, sitting and chatting. Dikeman has an anthropologist’s eye for telling details, and viewers quickly find shared significance in this record of commonplace ...

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Lupus Garrett: Maximalia

Garrett’s mixed-media collages rework found photographic portraits into impious icons of satiric intent. His computer-manipulated and cloth-printed visages are subsequently painted, appliquéd, broidered, jeweled, and otherwise embellished with the fripperies of a committed bricoleur. Grouped in series by character types, Garrett’s portraits portend the gravity of documentary typologies. Closer inspection reveals them to be funny, ...

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New*Now

    New*Now highlights additions made to the museum’s permanent collection during the past two years.

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Douglass Freed, Paintings, 1973-2010

This retrospective traces the evolution of a body of work that has consistently explored issues of abstraction, suggestion, surface, and deep space. The survey ranges from large-scale monochromatic color fields to more structured arrangements inspired by the archeology of Greece and Mexico. An impressive group of paintings from the last 10 years reveals Freed’s mature ...

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2011 Annual Student Exhibition

The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently taking studio art classes at the college. Interested student-artists collaborate with art department faculty to select work that best represents them. Each year, some fifty students exhibit close to one hundred artworks in ...

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Membership in the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art provides unique opportunities and sustains a lasting artistic legacy for future generations. Members receive exclusive invitations to exhibition previews and social events with featured artists to learn firsthand about their art and discuss art-making processes. Special discounts on museum publications and participation fees are also a benefit for members.



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