04 // 12 // 2022
ARTS SOCIETY
Starts October 19, 2021 @ 10:30am , Ends April 12, 2022 @ 12:00pm
SUSAN ROSOFF
Arts Society
Select Tuesdays, 10:30 am-noon
OMA ARTISTS AS PASSIONATE COLLECTORS: Seeing private art collections provides a rare glimpse into the lives of artists. This year, we’ll explore what artists in OMA’s permanent collection have acquired for their personal collections. Each artist collected differently, and each collection is unique. Some artists immersed themselves in specific types of work or periods in art history, while others could not resist owning things that caught their eye. They built collections in different ways – some sought specific works, while others collected through trades with fellow artists. In this series presented by museum educator Susan Rosoff, you’ll enjoy anecdotes about these artists’ collecting passions along with insights into the OMA collection.
10:30 am, Light Brunch Served
11 am, Lecture Begins
Series Tuition for Members: $150
Series Tuition for Nonmembers: $215 (Includes Individual Membership)
October 19: Three Sees - Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Chuck Close
Christo and Jeanne-Claude mainly acquired art from their American and international friends, while Chuck Close was drawn to Old Masters and contemporary artists who focused on faces.
December 14: Obsession to Possess - Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was almost a hoarder. He loved shopping and collected everything from paintings and sculpture to furniture, jewelry, and decorative arts.
January 11: Embracing it All - Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg wanted to live among works by artists that had importance to his work. He acquired work through purchase, exchange and gifts, and his collection was full of works by the who’s who of the art world.
February 15: S Curves – Frank Stella, Cindy Sherman, and Pat Steir
You would expect three uniquely different artists to have distinct points of view. Frank Stella collects Old Masters and paintings by contemporaries, Cindy Sherman tends to collect young artists and work by her friends, and Pat Steir claims she is not a collector, but there is evidence to the contrary.
March 8: Multiplicity of Concepts – Eric Fischl/April Gornik and Sol LeWitt
We’ll investigate the collection of married artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl, who are likely to buy what they see and fall in love with. On the other hand, Sol LeWitt focused on subject matter that included investigations of traditionally “non-art” areas such as language and the artistic process itself.
April 12: Distinct Visions – Robert Motherwell, Ed Ruscha, Carroll Dunham, and Ursula von Rydingsvard
Robert Motherwell was an abstract expressionist painter, and his collection reflects that interest. Ed Ruscha was drawn to work by California friends and likes a bit of irreverence. Carroll Dunham seems drawn to work that is more conceptual, and Ursula von Rydingsvard prefers objects carved from wood and Asian textiles.
Please call 407.896.4231 ext. 262 or email education@omart.org for more information