This week @ the IU Art Museum

Stop by the Gallery of Art of the Western World this week, which features a recently acquired print by IU Hope School of Fine Arts faculty member Osamu James Nakagawa from his series Banta [Cliffs]. Also on display is an installation of paintings and prints by Felrath Hines, whose art was often inspired by the jazz and classical music he listened to while working.

Don't miss this month's thematic tour, Abstraction and Music, on Saturday, August 7, at 2:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries
Remembering Okinawa: A New Acquisition by Osamu James Nakagawa 
Continuing through December 2010
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
 
The IU Art Museum recently acquired a print by IU Hope School of Fine Arts faculty member Osamu James Nakagawa from his series Banta [Cliffs]. This body of work has gained widespread critical acclaim for the artist, who is currently a Guggenheim Fellow. The imagery deals with the "suicide cliffs" in Okinawa, where a large number of Okinawans took their own lives immediately prior to or during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. A Japanese American photographer, Nakagawa envisions these large, digitally constructed images as "an exploration of the historically and politically loaded landscapes that these sites represent."
 
Osamu James Nakagawa (American, born 1962). Okinawa 009 from Banta series, 2008. Archival ink-jet print on paper mounted on aluminum board. Museum purchase with funds from John Fiederlein, M.D. 1991, in honor of Kathleen J. (Zaviske) Fiederlein, B.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1992.

Thematic Tour
Abstraction and Music
Saturday, August 7, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Meet in the Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor
Presented by IU Art Museum Docent Yelena Polyanskaya.

New in the Galleries
Harmony and Rhythm: Works by Felrath Hines
Continuing through December 19, 2010
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
Felrath Hines (American, 1913-1993). Elevation, 1986. Oil on linen. Gift of the wife of the artist.xt here.

Featuring three paintings and three works on paper by abstract artist and Indiana native Felrath Hines (1918-1993), these recent acquisitions were gifts from the wife of the artist, Dorothy Fisher, in 2009.

Hines's paintings rely upon a universal language of geometric form and harmonic color. Yet their rhythmic musical quality is suggestive of the cadences of jazz, one of the great African American contributions to American culture, and one that defined the Indianapolis of Hines's childhood, when numerous jazz clubs sprang up in the city. Hines also may have been inspired by the jazz and classical music he often listened to while painting. 

With collections ranging from ancient gold jewelry, Asian scrolls and African masks, to paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, the Indiana University Art Museum is located on 7th Street in the heart of the Bloomington campus.

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