Remembering Henrike Naumann, LaMonte McLemore, and Frederick Wiseman

"Born in East Germany just a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, her work ruminated on reunification. It often incorporated furniture and found domestic objects and mass-produced home goods from the era as carriers of ideologies, politics, and social truths. She passed away of cancer just three months before the opening of the Venice Biennale, where she was set to co-represent Germany with artist Sung Tieu."

"Lauded as one of South Carolina's most notable abstract expressionist painters, he also worked at the Columbia Museum of Art and Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston in the 1960s. He photographed live performances of artists from Luciano Pavarotti to Ella Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams, and ran a photography processing hub in Charleston. He taught at the University of Guelph and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 1987 until he retired in 2020, training generations of Canadian artists."

"He was perhaps best known for his Thick Paintings, in which he layered gesso on everyday objects. Director of the international program at the Museum of Modern Art since 1996, he dedicated himself to nurturing more global perspectives on contemporary art. In addition to being a founding member of the 1960s and '70s psychedelic soul group 5th Dimension, he was a medical photographer for the Navy, and also captured fellow musicians including Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye."

Henrike Naumann, born in East Germany shortly before the Berlin Wall fell, used domestic objects and mass-produced home goods to examine reunification and social ideologies, and died of cancer three months before co-representing Germany at the Venice Biennale. A South Carolina abstract expressionist painter and photographer worked at regional museums in the 1960s, photographed major performers, and ran a photography processing hub. A Canadian educator taught at the University of Guelph and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design until 2020 and became known for Thick Paintings layered with gesso. A longtime Museum of Modern Art international program director promoted global perspectives.

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