Claudia DeMonte:
Retrospective Featured at UNH Seton Gallery
What:
Claudia DeMonte’s traveling “Retrospective,” which traces her 35-year artistic career, will make a stop at the Seton Gallery at the University of New Haven. The exhibition will consist of pieces from all of DeMonte’s various bodies of work, including the early Corcoran Museum calendar/photo posters series from the 1970’s; the 80’s and 90’s wood and bronze “Female Fetishes” series including “Female Implements and Artifacts;” the “Full Closet” and “Real Beauty” installations; and her “Women’s World Quilt” (completed with the women from a Tibetan tent factory in Lhasa). DeMonte’s Retrospective also will include digital prints from each of the three series of her works, and a monograph with essays by Eleanor Heartney and Agnes Gund.
Throughout 2010-11, DeMonte’s exhibition will travel to various museums and galleries including: the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan; the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama; the University of New England Art Gallery in Maine; the West Valley Art Museum in Surprise, Arizona; the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Katzen Art Center in Washington, D.C.
When:
Opening reception: 5:00-7:00 p.m., October 21, 2009
Exhibition: October 8 – 30, 2009
Gallery Hours: Tues. – Thurs. 1-5 p.m., Fri. 1-5 p.m., Sat-Sun 12-3 p.m.
Where:
Seton Art Gallery, Dodds Hall, UNH campus
Details:
Claudia DeMonte’s work deals with the roles of women in contemporary society with a touch of humor. She has had more than 60 one-person and 300 group exhibitions nationally including exhibitions at the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Mississippi Museum of Art, Tucson Museum, Flint Institute of Art, Museum of the Southwest. She has lectured and exhibited in 35 countries including: France, Italy, Estonia, Iceland, Germany, Thailand, Jamaica, The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Australia and Japan. Her work is in numerous museum permanent collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Stamford Museum, Boca Raton Museum, and in major corporate collections such as those of Hyatt Regency Hotels, Exxon, Citibank and Siemens. Her public commissions have come from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Library System, Queens Supreme Court, Prudential, the State of New Mexico and New York City School Construction Authority.
For more information contact Joseph Smolinski at 203-932-7446 or jsmolinski@newhaven.edu.
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