Gallery Talk + Johnny Gandelsman Performance

PAST MEETS FUTURE

Our current exhibition, VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek, illustrates a conversation between historic and contemporary works from two generations of artists, melding the past and the future of innovative art practices. We are in the final weeks of this season's programs, concluding with two events that expand on the idea of artistic legacies: a gallery talk with art historian Gloria Sutton and performance by violinist Johnny Gandelsman.

Learn more about these upcoming programs and our next exhibition, along with a Call for Artists for the 10th annual {Re}HAPPENING!

UPCOMING EVENTS

GALLERY TALK: GLORIA SUTTON

Thursday, December 5th - 7pm

Author and art historian Gloria Sutton examines Sara VanDerBeek’s recent photographic work in relationship to the Expanded Cinema experiments of her father, BMC alum, Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984). Gloria Sutton is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Northeastern University and author of The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema (MIT Press, 2015), and editor of Sara VanDerBeek (Hatje Cantz, 2016).

Free for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $8 non-members

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Stan VanDerBeek: The Computer Generation (1972)

P ERFORMANCE: JOHNNY GANDELSMAN

Thursday, December 12 – 7pm

Grammy award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman brings his new project to BMCM+AC, presenting Bach’s complete cello suites on the violin. A founding member of Brooklyn Rider and a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Johnny has recently collaborated with Tyondai Braxton, Bela Fleck, Nico Muhly, Yo-Yo Ma, Caroline Shaw, and Mark Morris.

$10 for BMCM+AC members + students w/ID / $15 non-members

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...Gandelsman is a delightfully unconventional fiddler. He does not have the big tone and imposing presence of a typical soloist but plays with a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination that are far more rare.
- Boston Globe

The Cello Suites are in some ways even more iconic than the Sonatas and Partitas. In writing them, Bach captured every human emotion imaginable, making the compositions truly universal. These works are known and beloved all over the world, thanks to legendary recordings and performances by giants like Pablo Casals, Anner Bylsma and Yo-Yo Ma. The Suites have been performed on many instruments other than the cello: viola, bass, marimba, horn, banjo, mandolin come to mind; and yet somewhat surprisingly, until very recently they have never been performed or recorded on the violin. I am grateful to have an opportunity to share my take on the suites with all of you.
- Johnny Gandelsman

Johnny Gandelsman: Bach - Cello Suite no.1 (arranged for violin)
Boston, February 17th, 2019

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain College

curated by Kate Averett and Alice Sebrell
January 24 - April 25, 2020

This exhibition will celebrate the work and impact of the women associated with Black Mountain College, featuring borrowed works alongside pieces from the BMCM+AC collection by a wide-ranging group of artists. BMC was a place where women could explore their identities as artists and individuals; a space where women were expected to question things, to think critically and to explore their own self determinacy. Through artworks, personal accounts and archival film and photographs, Question Everything! details how this new generation went forward with a strong sense of what it meant to be a woman in the 20th century, forging new paths for themselves and those who followed in their footsteps.

Highlights will include the never-before-exhibited films of Hazel Larsen Archer and her students, showing daily life at Black Mountain College; textiles and prints by Anni Albers; a selection of woven wire sculptures and paper folded work by Ruth Asawa; an Elaine de Kooning work on paper; newly acquired additions to BMCM+AC's permanent collection from Abstract Expressionists Pat Passlof and Jo Sandman; and the first public showing of Faith Murray Britton's 1942 mural on the Studies Building art room door.

Select programming features a new composition by Bana Haffar, based upon the weavings and philosophy of Anni Albers, performed by Haffar and Third Coast Percussion; a collage workshop with landmark feminist artist Connie Bostic; a presentation by BMC scholar David Silver, "When the College was Female"; a community panel discussion that will explore identity, individuality, and what it means to be an artist in our ever-evolving cultural climate, presented by Culture Club; and a closing reception with writer and Black Mountain College alumna Martha King who will be giving a reading and sharing recollections of her time at BMC.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS

{Re}HAPPENING Returns to Lake Eden

be a part of the Black Mountain College Legacy

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center announces an opportunity for artists to participate in the 2020 {Re}HAPPENING on Saturday, April 11th at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain, NC.

We invite artists to propose projects that reflect the innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Artists are encouraged to take risks and demonstrate elements of process, spontaneity, experimentation, collaboration, and audience participation. Each selected project will receive a $300 honorarium.

ARTISTS OF ALL GENRES AND DISCIPLINES are encouraged to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI). The LOI should be a brief one-page outline that describes the project, includes participating artists and how the project connects to the Black Mountain College legacy.

The LOI deadline is January 6, 2020 – please email LOIs to info@blackmountaincollege.org. Notification will be sent by January 29, 2020.

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VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek installation at BMCM+AC, photo by Michael Oppenheim. | Gloria Sutton, courtesy of the subject. | Stan VanDerBeek, The Computer Generation (1972), a documentary by John Musilli. | Johnny Gandelsman, photo by Shervin Lainez. | Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (arranged for violin). Boston, February 17th, 2019. | Unknown filmmaker, Hazel Larsen Archer at Black Mountain College, ca. 1951. 16mm, color, silent, 2 min 29 sec. Courtesy of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer. | {Re}HAPPENING 9 featuring Twice Told Tales: A place to call home (we are all refugees) by The Transfluent Orchestra / Mobile Coaction Lab, photo by Michael Oppenheim.

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