Exhibitions : Upcoming Exhibitions
Poets on Painters
Date(s): April 25, 2008 thru June 29, 2008
A visual and literary exhibition that pairs 20 contemporary poets with 20 contemporary paintings, Poets on Painters opens at the Sheldon on April 26. Each poet’s response to a painting will be displayed alongside the artwork. A sampling of today’s written and visual arts, Poets on Painters focuses on the intrinsic and fascinating connections between two of the oldest art forms as seen by some of their newest practitioners.
To view a slide show of the artworks, please click: Poets on Painters Slide Show.
To listen to a podcast with curator Katie Geha discussing the exhibition, please click: Poets on Painters, or to hear three poets read their poems about paintings, visit: Poets on Painters Podcast.
To view a booklet with the winning poems in the "Nebraska Poets on Sheldon Painters" contest, please click: Winning Contest Poems
Poets on Painters recalls 20th-century collaborations between Apollinaire and Duchamp, Stein and Picasso, and O’Hara and Rivers in its playful examination of how poetry and painting converge and diverge in the 21st century. The internationally recognized visual and literary artists included in the exhibition represent a vast array of styles and approaches, both traditional and experimental.
A timely survey of contemporary painting and poetry, this exhibition instigates collaboration between established and emerging artists. The exhibition is a cross-section of contemporary painting, a sampling that reflects a deeper understanding on the state of this artistic medium today.
The project includes such notables as painters Mark Grotjahn, Laura Owens, Monique Prieto and Dana Schutz, and poets Jeff Clark, Noah Eli Gordon and Sawako Nakayasu.
One example is the pairing of Kary Wayson’s poem “Intimacy Vs. Autonomy” (below) and Angelina Gualdoni’s painting Reflecting Skin 2 (right).
Intimacy Vs. Autonomy
Light began time.
We filled our daybuckets with it.
We battled our umbrellas.
We dropped our dresses in gutters of gathers.
We managed our fans of poker feathers.
We gave each gust a good hard twist:
Invisible sacks of bread on by.
Well.
And still. We live like
We’re hills.
Imagine my mother imagine her father:
I am in charge of the sky.Organized by the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, the exhibition is curated by Katie Geha, former curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ulrich, and Travis Nichols, a freelance writer based in Seattle.
Location: Sheldon
