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Joan Brown

Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground

Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers, 1912–2022

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Joan Brown
May 27–Sept. 24, 2023
Heinz Galleries

This exhibition is the first major survey of Joan Brown (American, 1938–1990) in over 20 years, and offers a compelling look at the prolific career of a painter known for her large-scale, high-key portraits of family, animals, and herself.

Organized chronologically, Joan Brown presents 44 objects, including paintings and sculptures, and traces the depth and evolution of the artist’s 35-year career as a painter, starting with her art school days in 1950s San Francisco to her premature death at age 52. While Brown focused on abstraction in the late 1950s, her paintings took on a charming and fantastical figurative style later in her career.

The playful, imaginative, and autobiographical work of Joan Brown draws inspiration from a variety of sources to create a charmingly offbeat body of work that embraces whimsy and weightier themes. Driven by a deep and lifelong curiosity, her later works showcase an ever-expanding symbology as she pursued a more spiritual, metaphysical path.

Joan Brown is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is curated by Janet Bishop, Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA, and Nancy Lim, Associate Curator, Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA. Carnegie Museum of Art’s presentation is organized by Liz Park, Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art with Cynthia Stucki, curatorial assistant for contemporary art and photography.

Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground
Aug. 19, 2023–Jan. 7, 2024
Heinz Architectural Center

Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground brings together historical artworks from the museum’s collection alongside contemporary projects and new commissions to narrate the complex stories of how fossil fuel economies have been produced and upheld; whom they have excluded and left vulnerable; and how they have shaped and disrupted cities, communities, and ecologies.

Extending to multiple geographies across the United States and returning to our immediate context thousands of feet below our ground, works in this exhibition look to the very sites where processes of extraction materialize. Abundant in anthracite and bituminous coal, mines of Pennsylvania fueled the proverbial Second Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century. With gas trapped in the sedimentary rock of the Marcellus Shale—stretching from the Allegheny Plateau to the northern Appalachian Basin—the region becomes once again a node in the intimately connected global energy networks.

Visitors can encounter 10 bodies of work spanning an array of media including paintings, prints, sculpture, film, architectural drawings, and archival documents. In tandem with works from the museum’s collection, seven projects by contemporary artists, architects, and collectives chart avenues for creatively contending with extractive forces in the context of our contemporary urgency. Within their multiplicity, a common thread weaves these projects together. From raising awareness and recording struggles of frontline communities to providing a space to mourn and diligently mapping destruction, these new commissions offer aesthetic, emotional, and cognitive tools for coexisting on a warming, scarcer, and more unstable planet.

Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground is co-organized by Theodossis Issaias, associate curator, Heinz Architectural Center, and Ala Tannir, curatorial research fellow, Heinz Architectural Center.

Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers, 1912–2022
Through May 12, 2024
Scaife Gallery One

Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers, 1912–2022 presents a survey of Japanese prints throughout the 20th century up to present day. The exhibition examines how the role of a printmaker has transformed through international encounters, new sources of inspiration, and artistic motivation.

Drawn largely from the museum’s extensive collection of Japanese prints, the exhibition highlights a significant yet rarely seen part of its holdings, in addition to special loans from local private collections. Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers, 1912–2022 features masterworks by Kawase Hasui, Yoshida Hiroshi, Munakata Shikō, Saitō Kiyoshi, and new work by Hamanishi Katsunori and Morimura Ray.

The exhibition offers three fresh experiences for visitors, with new rotations of works appearing on October 14, 2023 and February 3, 2024. Each rotation consists of approximately 90 works on paper and proceeds thematically, beginning with works from the shin-hanga (new prints) movement, moving through works from the sōsaku-hanga (creative prints) movement, and ending with contemporary prints from the 1980s to the present day.

Imprinting in Their Time: Japanese Printmakers, 1912–2022 is curated by Akemi May, associate curator of works on paper, with Emily Mirales, curatorial assistant.

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