“Impressive” Joe Thaler, Greenville, SC
Founded in late 2003, the MMOFA is a premier fine art institution known for lively, sensual, visual art history experiences that overcome many real and perceived barriers to art history education, help to develop confident informed dialog about visual art, and demonstrate how visual art can refresh the spirit and broaden our vision for the benefit of mankind.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
February 13 - April 15, 2010
Artist Reception: February 13, 6pm
From Dust to Dirt: Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings by Southern American Abstract Realist Henry Ransom. The exhibition of 30 oil paintings and color pencil drawings highlight Ransom's four artistic periods: Peoplscapes, Floorscapes, Sheetscapes, and Earthscapes. Listed in Who's Who in American Art and illustrated in the book Leading American Contemporary Artists, Ransom's works are held in collections of numerous museums throughout the United States. The artist draws upon his American South background and world travels to create exquisite luminescent carefully constructed spaces or "landscapes" of found objects from an aerial perspective. The artist obtained his BFA and MFA from the University of Georgia.
"A Heart for Art." This endearing visual art exhibition features original works by such well loved artists as Rembrandt, Renoir, Picasso, Calder, Delacroix, Millet, Miro, Cezanne, and Dali. Paintings, drawings, and sculpture are displayed in an intimate atmosphere with fireplace, club chairs, settees, and soft music for relaxed viewing pleasure. Visitors will also find countinuous art film with large screen LCD projection. A separate silent film on flat screen television highlights and interprets selected works in the Museum collection.
COMING EXHIBITIONS
September 15-October 15, 2010
Artist Reception Saturday September 25, 6pm
Second Annual "Making Masters: Selected Works by Second Year MFA Students at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art": Curated by UGA MFA Art History Students and Professor Dr. Asen Kirin. This inter-departmental exhibition applies the curatorial skills of UGA graduate art history students to the selection, interpertation, and presentation of original works created by UGA students entering their second year of the MFA studio art program. (www.art.uga.edu). This three-year MFA program includes Ceramics, Drawing and Painting, Fabric Design, Interior Design, Jewelry and Metals, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture. The Artist Reception on September 25 is held in conjunction with the the Museum's participation in the 6th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day.
October 20- December 15, 2010
Southern Personality: Portraits by Poindexter Paige Carter (American, 1851-1921)
This world permier exhibtion of 15 portraits by Georgia artist P.P.Carter celebrates the Georgia artist who immortalized prominant Southern personalities in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virgina following the War Betwen the States. Buried in nearby Greensboro, P. P. Carter moved there after marrying the daughter of the wealthy Dr. H.H. King. The exhibition features original research on Carter's life story and selected portraits by the artist with biographies of his sitters and serves to enhance the historic preservation of the memory of this fine Georgia portraitist. For more information, call 706-485-4530.
February 3- 23, 2011: "Frank McEwen's Shona Sculpture Collection"/ Second Annual Putnam County Student Curated Museum Exhibition
Over 90 hand carved stone sculptures created by the founding fathers of the Shona movement in Zimbabwe depict imaginative creatures with animal and human features. In the 1960's, the first Director of the National Gallery in Zimbabwe, Frank McEwen, selected these works to represent the unique spiritually moving style of stone sculpture by the native people of Zimbabwe. These sculptures toured the United States in 1968/69 in the ground breaking exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Featured artists include John Takawira, Bernard Manyandure, Leman Moses, Sylvester Mubayi, and many others. Come see why these artists drew the ardent attention of modern masters of the time including Picasso who requested McEwen to regularly send photos of these artists' work.
PAST EXHIBITIONS:
January 27 - February 11, 2010
Opening Reception January 27
"South of Broadway: Original Works by Alexander Z. Kruse (1888-1972)"
Co-produced with the K-12 Putnam County School
Opening Reception: Wednesday January 27, 6pm
Born in the immigrant slums of 19th century New York City, American Urban Realist Artist Alexander Zadine Kruse won lifetime acclaim as as artist, teacher, art critic, and author of several books including the semi-autobiographical novel East of Broadway and best selling book on how to draw and paint. "South of Broadway" is the first exhibition of works by this WPA artist in the state of Georgia. The exhibition presents 10 Kruse paintings and 5 etchings and lithographs as well as original student art created in homage to the artist. To produce the exhibition, Putnam County students performed original research, developed the content for wall cards, installed the exhibition, produced the exhibition catalogue, organized the opening gala reception, created graphics to unify the promotional campaign, produced a documentary film on the artist, and trained volunteer community docents. 706-485-4530 or visit www.putnam.k12.ga.us/pchs/kruse/krusehome.htm
September 25- October 31, 2009
Making Masters: Selected Works by Second Year MFA Students at the University of Georgia. Curated by Dr. Asen Kirin. The exhibition includes works by nine young artists: Doug Barton, Denton Crawford, Jody Fang, Helen Farmer, Craig Hawkins, Layet Johnson, An Pham, Marie Porterfield, Chase Westfall. All participants are second-year students in the Master of Fine Arts program from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA (www.art.uga.edu). This three-year program includes Ceramics, Drawing and Painting, Fabric Design, Interior Design, Jewelry and Metals, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture.
March 14, 2009 1-3pm. "About Face: Self-portraits by 7th Grade Art Students at Putnam County Middle School"
December 2-31, 2006: "CollegeBoard Advanced Placement Studio Art Exhibition"
This exhibition features 30 award winning original works of art by secondary students in the Advanced Placement Studio Art Program sponsored by the CollegeBoard. Selected from over 24,000 art portfolios submitted from around the world for evaluation by college porfessors and art experts, the works represent some of the highest quality art produced by our young generation.
June 15-November 20, 2006: "The Magic of Madison"
Come view 15 color photographs that depict the colorful people and places that led Travel Holiday Magazine to name Madison, Georgia, the "Best Small Town in America." Selected by a panel of nationally renowned photojournalists and chosen from over 20,000 images, these works display the unmistakable talent of photojournalist students at the University of Georgia. Co-sponsored with the Madison/Morgan Chamber of Commerce.
May 6-7, 2006. "A-Flat: A Funky Little Art Thing."
Once again, the Museum, in partnership with Morgan County art teachers presented winning artistic and musical creations of the K-12 students (public schools and home schooling families) in a lively intimate museum setting.
April 22, 2006. "Art Walk 2006"
Adults and young people enjoyed viewing original works of art in five private collections. Works by important deceased artists will include Milton Avery, Adolf Gottlieb, and Theodore Wendel. Featured living artists will include Georgia sculptor Oliver Porter and Georgia ceramicist Elizabeth Collins. Each home on the tour will also feature one work from the Museum's permanent collection in a vignette, enabling visitors to build familiarity and appreciation for the Museum's permanent collection and to make a intimate informed relationship with several objects.
October 8, 2005. "A Monumental Journey"
The Museum's inaugural traveling exhibtion featured two outstanding bronze statues, "Peace" and "Justice" by internationally renowned living Scottish sculptor Alexander Stoddart. Created in the Classical style, these statues each measure 8 1/2 feet tall and weigh 1 1/5 tons each. Arriving on a forty foot-long horse-drawn caisson led by four black Percheron horses in full dress and a color guard parade,the statues rested for two days at the Museum before making their way to the Atlanta Millenium Gate, the largest monument of its kind to be constructed since the Jefferson Memorial. Sponsored by the National Monuments Fondation and The Coca Cola Company, the exhibition drew rave reviews.
May 6-7, 2005. "Morgan County Youth Art Exhibition"
The K-12 youth in Morgtan County dazzled parents and international tourists with their sensational visual art and musical creations in this temporary exhibition at the museum.
April 21, 2005. "Art Walk 2005".
This temporary pedestrian-friendly art exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience fine visual art and antebellum architecture. Six art collectors in historic Madison open their homes and art collections to the beginning and discriminating art appreciator. The exhibition features original works by 19th century French Impressionist Madame Louise Germain who painted with Paul Cezanne in Aix-en- Provence, Modern artist Raphael Soyer, and Abstract Expressionist Baroness Hilla Rebay who founded the Museum of Non-Objective Art in New York, later renamed the Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum. The exhibition also features works by Contemporary Georgia artists Henry Cleveland Ransom whose works are held in five U.S. museums and plein air painter Gary Weiss, professor at the Atlanta Portfolio School who will be found at the easel in the garden of one antebellum residence.
February 12, 2005. "An Artful Affair: Rembrandt and Boucher"
Displayed on location at the Ritz Carlton Lodge at Lake Oconee, this spectacular offsite temporary museum exhibition features Rembrandt's magnificant oil on panel, "Portrait of an Old Man," Francois Boucher's seductive oil on canvas titled "Cupid with Torch," and Old Master Jean Le Clerc's monumental oil on canvas, "Adoration of the Shepherds." Other featured artists include Richard Lindner, Milton Avery, and James Audubon. Contemporary artists Thomas Prochnow, Henry Cleveland Ransom,Jr., and Jean Westmacott were aslo featured.
May 5-6, 2004. "Morgan County Youth Art Exhibition"
The Madison Museum of Fine Art, in partnership with the local art teachers at the Morgan County public school, present winning K-12 youth visual art creations in a museum setting where children, parents, and visitors can view these children's works hanging in the same room as a Picasso!
April 15, 2004. "Art Walk 2004"
This intimate visual art exhibition features original works from five private collections in antebellum Madison, Georgia. Homeowners, acting as docents, offer personal tours of their historic homes and art collections. Master artists featured include Whistler, Cassatt, Manet, Renoir, and Gorky, and a rare collection of Rose Medallion Porcelain.
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