The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) presents two free exhibitions opening in April 2016, both featuring work by North Carolina artists. Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist includes landscape paintings by two locally raised artists, while Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle highlights one Raleigh-born artist’s career photographing American life.
Altered Land and Burk Uzzle join ticketed spring exhibitions American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals and Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Museum of Art, which both opened on March 19.
For a full list of current and upcoming exhibitions at the NCMA, visit ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions.
Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist
April 16−September 11, 2016
East Building, North Carolina Gallery
Free
Greg Lindquist and Damian Stamer, both North Carolina raised, create shimmering landscape paintings, simultaneously abstract and representative, that slide in and out of focus. Their environments—from the natural to the manmade—are haunted by the past, appearing to be in the process of eroding, degrading, or fading into nothingness. Memory and loss, as well as the effects of time and economic and environmental ravages, are at play in these beautiful, melancholy landscapes.
Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle
April 16−September 25, 2016
East Building, Julian T. Baker Jr. Photography Gallery
Free
Born in 1938 in Raleigh, Burk Uzzle began his career at age 17 as a staff photographer for the News & Observer. At 23 he was Life magazine’s youngest photographer, capturing powerful images of American life and culture. Uzzle is known for his iconic photographs of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., and Woodstock. He is now an independent photographer based in Wilson, North Carolina, and continues to chronicle American life from coast to coast.
This exhibition provides an overview of Uzzle’s career and is organized in collaboration with the Ackland Art Museum at UNC–Chapel Hill and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. As a tribute to one of North Carolina’s most renowned photographers, each museum is focusing on a different aspect of Uzzle’s work, and all three shows will be on view concurrently during the summer of 2016.
Impressionist Paintings and Master Drawings
The NCMA also presents two ticketed spring exhibitions open through June 19: American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals and Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. American Impressionist features 39 breathtaking oil and watercolor paintings created by Childe Hassam on the Isles of Shoals, while Marks of Genius includes drawings, watercolors, gouaches, and pastels dating from the Middle Ages to the present.
About the Exhibitions
Altered Land is organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.
Burk Uzzle is organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.
American Impressionist is organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel. Participating sponsor: celito.fiber
Marks of Genius is organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. This exhibition is also made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.