Guernica, Picasso's most famous painting, depicted the horrors inflicted on civilians during the bombing of the Basque town of Gernika in the Spanish civil war.
Cemeteries are spaces where ritual and reflection converge, where commemorations of life co-exist with contemplations of human mortality. Jean Shin's installations question how these elements mark cycles of time.
"I center feminine figures and feminine energy and ideas. I wanted to really push the whole idea that this was a woman, so there's a collar and necklaces, and there's a light inside to indicate spirituality."
"My work is a dialogue with clay, grounded in reverence for repetition and craft, at once elemental, transparent, and detailed. I'm not sure my work answers these questions but I do constantly ask myself: What value does beauty play in our chaotic lives? Is beauty important? What do objects we surround ourselves say about us?"
Tom Prochaska distinguished himself in many mediums: He was a masterful printmaker, an intuitive painter, a builder of papier-mâché figures, a creator of fused glass panels, and graphite-on-paper drawings.
I chose my friends poorly, and your friends have a tendency to rub off on you. And so I started making poor decisions. The next night I made a plan of how to do it, and I did it. And I didn't get caught doing it, [but] I got caught afterwards.
Among the sketches on display are two tentative pencil drawings for scenes that never made it into the finished 1926 book. Shepard's published drawings are so deeply embedded in the cultural imagination that it's easy to forget they were once the product of trial and revision.
"At once naturalistic and highly symbolic, Egyptian art resonated with his enduring search for both monumentality and humanity," Bouvard said. "The opportunity to present his work within a setting of such profound historical and architectural significance offers a rare and compelling perspective on his oeuvre."