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Main Exhibition

Andy Warhol Portraits: Art and Irony - opening reception July 11th 5pm-7:30pm, remains on view July 12th – September 13th

In conjunction with Memphis Brooks Museum of Art's exhibition, Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper, AMUM presents selections from its collection of Andy Warhol portrait Polaroids, black and white photos and silkscreen prints. Marisol and Warhol were colleagues and Pop portraitists, he in painting, she in sculpture. Warhol's genius was to yank fine art from its pedestal of exclusivity and present it as a commodity undifferentiated from Campbell soup and Brillo pads—but much more expensive. Marisol participated in his films and in events at his studio, the Factory, the throbbing center of the Pop Art movement where celebrities, wannabe celebrities and dazzled hangers-on congregated to rock and revel at night and become portrait subjects during working hours. Warhol, the fright-wigged wizard of coolness, presided over this frenetic universe, and the media loved the entire phenomenon.

Andy Warhol Portraits: Art and Irony reveals the process behind the portraits, which in turn reveals the sitters, whether stars or suburbanites, as profoundly ordinary people eager for their moments of reflected glory. Ten Works x Ten Painters, 1964, a silkscreen suite in AMUM's collection efficiently encapsulates New York's contemporary artistic environment of the 1960s. It includes Warhol's print recycled from a recent news photo of the 1963 Birmingham race riot. His images culled from the press of violence, war, car and plane crashes, electric chairs and even a stunned, grieving Jackie Kennedy solidify his point that anything, however trivial or disturbing, can be commodified as art.

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detail of Reigning Queens (Royal Edition)(Queen Ntombi) by Andy Warhol (1928-1987), screenprint and diamond dust on Lenox Museum Board, 1985, Extra, out of the edition. Designated for research and educational purposes only. (c) The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.


Also, featured in AMUM's main galleries is a project by Leila Hamdan.
 

Culture and Resistance
Civil Rights Photography: Memphis 1968

The Civil Rights Movement generated an abundance of photographs documenting the African American fight for equality and economic, political and social justice. The images captured by local and national news outlets recorded this struggle and some have become iconic images representing a collective memory of the era. Curated by Leila I. Hamdan from the UM Libraries Special Collections, these photographs illustrate a new view of the struggle in Memphis.



James R. Reid, Blue-Eye Soul Brother (February 26, 1968). Special Collections, University of Memphis.


CASEWORKS

Follow Me by Andrew James Williams,- July 12th - September 13th


ArtLab

The Hunting Set by Shara Rowley Plough - July 12th - September 13th 

The Hunting Set continues Shara Rowley Plough’s seven-year exploration of conspicuous consumption and material culture. The installation, at first, depicts a benign English hunting party. However, by crocheting the installation from a waste material, Plough attempts to reveal the ugliness of manufactured aspiration. The hunt runs parallel to our desire to attain a material status that we have been taught to admire. Today, horses are seen as luxury pets tied to images of wealth and aristocracy. Are we commercially trained to want to mimic this status? Why do we insist on buying what we do not need and cannot afford? Though you may not be able to afford a horse, with resourcefulness, you can fabricate an economical hollow version of your very own! Viewers are charged with investigating their own notions of material consumption.


spool (detail from "The Hunting Set") horse (detail from "The Hunting Set")
The Hunting Set process detail. Horsehair and monofilament. 2014. The Hunting Set detail. Horsehair, glass, and monofilament. 2014.

This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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Permanent Collections at AMUM: 
 
View of Egyptian Gallery

Ancient Egyptian Collection

Egyptian antiquities ranging from 3800 B.C.E. to 700 C.E. from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology collection. A permanent exhibition that is closed between temporary exhibitions.  

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Africa: Visual Arts of a Continent

Tradition-based African art focusing on four culture groups: the Dogon, Bamana, Senufo and Marka. A permanent exhibition that is closed between temporary exhibitions.

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