Charles Sheeler: Across Media

February 11, 2007 – May 6, 2007

Charles Sheeler: Across Media is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the complex, often paradoxical, relationships between photography, film, drawing, printmaking, and painting that were central to Sheeler's art. The exhibition features approximately 50 works and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring three essays: a brief introductory overview of the Sheeler literature, a detailed analysis of the artist's mediums and working methods, and a discussion of how those findings suggest new approaches to interpreting Sheeler's work.

Location: 
deYoung
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Charles Sheeler: Across Media

Elegant Distortions

March 4, 2007 – June 10, 2007

In conjunction with Vivienne Westwood: 36 Years in Fashion

In the late 1980s Vivienne Westwood reintroduced the corset, transforming it from restrictive underwear into fashionable outerwear. Her revival of the corset may be her most important contribution to late-20th-century fashion. This exhibition chronicles the evolution of the corset through a selection of six historical corsets from the museum’s permanent collection, along with print selections from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts.

Location: 
deYoung

Guise: Recent Prints by Deborah Oropallo

March 17, 2007 – September 16, 2007

In her recent work, Deborah Oropallo (b. 1954) deconstructs and enhances images to investigate the seduction and power that is evoked by gesture and pose. Oropallo layers images of contemporary women in provocative costumes, borrowed from the Internet, with images of men from 17th- and 18th-century portrait paintings, including several from the collection of the Fine Arts Museums. These traditional portraits were often contrived to convey not merely a likeness of the sitter, but also a sense of his importance and authority.

Location: 
deYoung

The Surreal World of Enrico Donati

June 9, 2007 – September 2, 2007

Enrico Donati (b. 1909) is perhaps the last living Surrealist artist closely associated with the movement’s acknowledged leader, André Breton. He was a key figure in the community of European expatriate artists in World War II–era New York. This exhibition recreates the extraordinary assemblage of objects in the artist’s New York studio.

Location: 
deYoung
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The Surreal World of Enrico Donati

Hiroshi Sugimoto

July 7, 2007 – September 23, 2007

The extraordinary 30-year career of Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is celebrated in this retrospective of more than 100 luminous photographs, made from 1976 to the present. This presentation, in an installation designed by Sugimoto, constitutes the first major survey of Sugimoto’s oeuvre.

Location: 
deYoung
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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Peter Max and the Summer of Love

August 31, 2007 – October 28, 2007

The de Young presents an exhibition of the work of Peter Max in conjunction with the community celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. The exhibition features fifty works by Max. As a prolific, multi-dimensional artist and Pop art icon, Max continues to create colorful paintings and posters. The psychedelic imagery, bright color palette, and “Cosmic ‘60s style” of his works express the spirit of the Summer of Love.  

Location: 
deYoung

Michael Arcega: Homing Pidgin

October 6, 2007 – January 20, 2008

Contemporary artist Michael Arcega reinterprets the Oceanic collections at the de Young with Homing Pidgin, a Collection Connections exhibition. Arcega is known for sculpture and installations that revolve around language, a subject he dealt with early in his life when his family emigrated from the Philippines to California. At the de Young, he shows common Oceanic objects that have become altered after frequent interactions with Western culture. He compares this phenomenon to the pidgin languages (dialects that blend Western and Oceanic words) spoken throughout Oceania.

Location: 
deYoung

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