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Each fall, the Racine Art Museum welcomes the newest gifts of artworks to its permanent collections with a debut exhibition. Receiving a substantial amount of contemporary ceramic sculpture, this exhibition featured figurative work, both abstract and realistic, and many dealt with the nude as subject matter. A few of these ceramic pieces are life-sized. Although the museum focused on major gifts of artists known internationally for their work in the ceramic medium, other materials were represented as well.
New and Novel 2009 also featured selections from a group of late-20th century photographs donated by Karen Johnson Boyd to support RAM's works on paper collection. These figurative photos are primarily portraits, capturing the images of well-known individuals such as James Dean, the Beatles, James Joyce and Elvis Presley.
MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Exhibition Notes (pdf)
Additional Notes regarding the photography (pdf)
ARTISTS IN EXHIBITION
Kate Anderson, Robert Arneson, Ralph Bacerra, Fred Bauer, Linda Bills, Karl F. Borgeson, Val Cushing, Edward Eberle, Carol Eckert, Leopold L. Foulem, Babs Haenen, Mary Heilmann, Sergei Isupov, James Makins, Bodil Manz, Tony Marsh, John McQueen, Richard Milette, Elie Nadelman, Gustavo Perez, Elsa Rady, David Regan, Red Weldon Sandlin, Jane Sauer, Adrian A. Saxe, Joseph Seigenthaler, Kay Sekimachi, Esther Shimazu, Anna Silver, Robert Sperry, Cathy Strokowsky, Lenore Tawney, Matteo Thun, Robert Turner, Beatrice Wood
Photographers
Sid Avery, Harry Benson, Ruth Bernhard, Giséle Freund, Emmett Gowan, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Phil Stern, Jerry N. Uelsman, Alfred Wertheimer
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Esther Shimazu
1957 –
Y Chromosome Pinch Pot, 1998
Glazed stoneware
Racine Art Museum
Gift of Karen Johnson Boyd
Photography: Jon Bolton, Racine, WI
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