JIM NUTT

Drawings & Paintings October 23 - November 25, 2003 Jim Nutt's exhibition will include three paintings and twelve graphite drawings from the past three years, each featuring an enigmatic portrait of a woman. His feather-light drawings are spare and exacting. His gem-like paintings (which require up to a year to complete) provide a sensual jolt more commonly associated with... Read more

RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER

An Exhibition in Honor of his 80th Birthday September 15 - October 17, 2003 The closer you get, the more unfamiliar it looks. Richard Artschwager has a well-developed facility for nudging ordinary objects into the shadowy realm of the phantom. From a landscape to hot water bottle—the specimen is ordinary, but the essence contains an intense perceptual chemistry. Artschwager transforms the familiar into an... Read more

IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

Maritime Works May 8 - June 26, 2003 Until the advent of planes, travel by water ruled. From lowly punt to Man o' War, boats and ships were not mere conveyance: the curragh, Fifie, and Zulu were history, culture and tradition. Along coasts, the sea was a way of life. Water was aligned with transport, trade, food gathering,... Read more

WILLIAM COPLEY

Paintings and Drawings March 28 - May 2, 2003 William Copley's work is a light-hearted rebuke to those who would deprive the human race of pleasure: priests, moralists and prudes alike. The world he unveils is a paradise of sensual delight, populated by nymph and satyrs, where lust reigns triumphant. The idyll of the Garden of Eden is in... Read more

THE ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE

German Drawings of the 19th Century February 12 - March 21, 2003 At the close of the 18th century, a new attitude toward nature developed in Germany. Artists and writers such as Schiller, Goethe, Novalis and Kleist espoused a union of nature and emotion that is known as romanticism. Drawing en plein air appealed especially to the Germans, and the bravura landscape... Read more

MBUTI DESIGN

Bark Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest January 3 - February 27, 2003 This exhibition explores the traditions of the Mbuti through their vital and expressive paintings, which are usually made by women. The Mbuti people, of the Ituri rain forest in Africa, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures in the world. Ancient testimony proves that the Mbuti have inhabited the... Read more