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August 30, 2024
The Chrysler Museum of Art Announces Dynamic Fall Lineup
NORFOLK, Va. – The Chrysler Museum of Art is proud to announce their Fall 2024–25 arts programming dates. These upcoming exhibitions represent the range and inclusivity of the globally recognized Museum at One Memorial Place, Norfolk, Virginia.
Peter Bremers: Ice to Water
On view from September 5, 2024, to January 19, 2025
Located in the Glass Projects Space
Peter Bremers (Dutch, born 1957)
Sapphire Ice Cave, 2023
Kiln cast glass, Courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: © Norbert Heyl
World-renowned artist Peter Bremers (Dutch, born 1957) debuts 16 new sculptures alongside photographic images captured during his explorations. Bremers’s work as a sculptor reflects his philosophical and spiritual view of life, as well as his urge to travel the world and bear witness to the varied creations of the Earth. These new works are influenced by his journeys to Iceland and his meditations on the glaciers that are vanishing due to rapid changes in our global climate—melting ice, transformed into water.
This exhibition is organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art with generous support from the Perry Family Foundation. Exhibition programming is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
New Frames of Reference: French Photographers at Home and Abroad
On view from September 5, 2024, to February 16, 2025
Located in the Frank Photography Gallery
Édouard Denis Baldus (French (born Prussia), 1813 – 1889)
Arles. Cloister, St. Trophime (Arles. Cloître, St. Trophime), ca. 1861
Albumen print from waxed paper negative, Gift of Susan and Paul Hirschbiel, 2019.19.3, Cloisters, St. Trophîme, Arles, ca. 1861, Albumen silver print from a glass negative, Gift of Susan and Paul Hirschbiel, 2019.19.3
This exhibition explores how France took the lead in the early decades of photography’s technological and aesthetic development. During a time when cameras were large and heavy, travel was slow, and the vagaries of sunlight and photochemistry undermined the very possibility of creating an image, the quest for greater reliability and permanence of materials illuminates the ways French photography evolved and shaped the country’s conception of itself through the camera lens.
Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism
On view from October 11, 2024, to January 5, 2025
Located in the Special Exhibition Galleries
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)
The Gardener – Old Peasant with Cabbage, 1883-95
Oil on canvas, Mellon National Gallery of Art, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul, 1994.59.6
French cuisine had long been viewed as a reflection of the nation’s identity and a source of popular pride. Yet in the decades following the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), artists depicted the growing, cooking, transporting, serving, and eating of food as a means of highlighting the economic and social instabilities of this tumultuous moment in French history. Ubiquitous scenes of farms, markets, and restaurants, offer gateways for considering the political, social, and cultural factors shaping France on the eve of the modern era.
Featuring more than 50 works, the exhibition showcases famous Impressionist artists such as Marie Bracquemond, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley, including an astonishing 12 works from the Chrysler Museum’s collection, and takes visitors on a journey of food from its origin points to the tables of Paris.
Framing the Expanded Field: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
On view from November 7, 2024 to April 20, 2025
Located in the Box
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty [still] (1970)
16mm film, Color, sound, Duration: 35 minutes
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Joyce J. Scott: Messages
On View from February 6, 2025 to August 17, 2025
Located in the Glass Projects Space
Joyce J. Scott (American, born 1948)
‘Mz. Teapot,’ 2022
Teapot, glass beads, plastic beads, thread, wire, armature, woven and peyote stitch, Courtesy of Mobilia Gallery
Image credit: © Michael Koryta
For more than three decades, trailblazing artist and activist Joyce J. Scott (American, born 1948) has elevated the creative potential of beadwork as a relevant contemporary art form. Scott uses off-loom, hand-threaded glass beads to create striking figurative sculptures, wall hangings, and jewelry informed by her African American ancestry, the craft traditions of her family (including her mother, renowned quilter Elizabeth T. Scott), and traditional Native American techniques, such as the peyote stitch. Meticulously hand-wrought and developed with imagination, wit, and sly humor, Scott’s works reflect the artist’s own narrative of what it means to be Black in America and embody the messages she hopes to impress upon her viewers.
Oaxaca Central: Contemporary Mexican Printmaking
On view from February 14, 2025 to May 11, 2025
Located in the Special Exhibition Galleries
Mercedes Lopez (Mexican, born 1983)
Sueño de Aguas Profundas, 2022
Etching and aquatint, Museum purchase, 2023.3.3
Offers a glimpse of the exciting and diverse art scene in Oaxaca de Juárez. Known simply as Oaxaca, the city encompasses a variety of historic and contemporary artistic practices. In the last 20 years, however, printmaking has far outstripped other mediums as the city’s most prominent visual language, spurred in part by political protests that gripped the city in 2006. During this period of civil unrest, artists embraced printmaking as a means of conveying their views and rallying for change. In doing so, a new generation of artists tapped into a broader tradition of political printmaking in Mexico, its make and message updated for our contemporary world.
Stay tuned for more details.
ABOUT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART
The Chrysler Museum of Art brings art and people together through experiences that delight, inform, and inspire. Internationally recognized for its collection of more than 35,000 objects, including one the largest glass collections in America, the Museum also includes free admission, the state-of-the-art Perry Glass Studio, a full-service restaurant, shop, theater, works on paper space, and oversees the historic Myers House. The Museum boasts an ambitious schedule of exhibitions, events, and programs, and has been nationally recognized for its commitment to inclusion through its innovative gallery host program. For more information, visit chrysler.org. Follow on social media @ChryslerMuseum to receive the latest updates.
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