Exhibitions : Current Exhibitions
Messaging: Text and Visual Art
Date(s): May 7, 2010 thru August 1, 2010
Billboards, neon signs, magazines, television, websites, and cell phones are all ways we experience the interplay of text and images. The detritus of visual culture, a constant mixing of text and image, reflects how we communicate with one another. Our daily experiences are interwoven with the words and visual materials that stimulate us.
Messaging: Text and Visual Art explores the function of "messaging" in art, specifically how artists working in various medias, styles, and movements have employed text in their work.
Approximately twenty-five works of art from the permanent collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art make up the exhibition. Composed of prints, photographs, and multi-media, the exhibition includes works by artists Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Kruger, Walter Robinson, and Carrie Mae Weems.
To view a selection of artworks in the exhibition, please click: Messaging Slideshow
An opening reception for Messaging: Text and Visual Art will be held in Sheldon's Great Hall on Friday, May 7 from 5-7 p.m. Introductory remarks will be made by curatorial assistant, Sarah Feit, who organized the exhibition for the Museum.
Sheldon Statewide is an outreach education and exhibitions program of the Sheldon Museum of Art. Since its inception in 1987 the program has reached over 275,000 people in 24 Nebraska communities. It is made possible by the generous support of Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Nebraska, Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, Rhonda and James Seacrest, the Sheldon Art Association, and the Nebraska Arts Council.
Location: Sheldon
