PAST
EXHIBITIONS
Dada
MOMA
- NYC
June
18 - September 11, 2006
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
West Building, Outer Tier and Central Gallery
February 19, 2006 - May 14, 2006
Overview: Dada, one of the crucially significant
movements of the historical avant-garde, was born in the heart
of Europe in the midst of World War I. In the wake of that
brutal conflict, Dadaists raucously challenged tradition,
and art-making was changed forever.
The most comprehensive museum exhibition of Dada art ever
mounted in the United States, Dada features painting, sculpture,
photography, film, collage, and readymades emerging in six
cities: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, and Paris.
The exhibition presents many of the most influential figures
in the history of modernism, as well as others less known,
including Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber, Hans Richter,
Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, George Grosz, John Heartfield,
Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and
Marcel Duchamp.
Man
Ray in the Age of Electricity
Heckscher
Museum of Art , Huntington NY
May 20, 2006 - August 13, 2006
Electricity came into widespread use in the first decades
of the twentieth century revolutionizing all aspects of society.
Individuals in vastly different fields started to develop
ways to employ this remarkable new resource. In the case of
the Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray (1890-1976), he used
electricity in the 1920s and later in two new types of photographs:
solarized images and rayographs. Solarized images were made
by turning the electric lights on briefly in the darkroom
as the negatives or photographs developed, creating a halo
effect around the person or object portrayed. An ethereal,
other-worldly feeling is projected. Rayographs were created
by placing objects on light-sensitive paper and turning on
the lights. The images look like x-rays. These two new art
forms were so original, startling and compelling that they
continue to amaze viewers today. This exhibition will focus
on Man Ray’s solarized images and rayographs. Approximately
40 to 45 photographs will be presented in this special exhibition.
A scholarly brochure will accompany the show. The exhibition
runs from May 20 to August 13, 2006.
Man's
Men: Portraits by Man Ray
May 2 - June 30, 2006
Zabriskie
Gallery 41 East 57th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
(between Park Ave. and Madison Ave. in Midtown Manhattan)
"Conversion
to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray"
January 24 through April 4, 2004
Terra Museum of American Art is located in Chicago at 664
North Michigan Avenue, between Huron and Erie Streets, three
blocks south of the historic Water Tower
Absent
Architectures of the XXth Century
Includes
worldwide known architectural projects, among which it is
Gropius Total Theatre Project. The exhibition of this particular
project is a virtual or audiovisual one which includes, projected
on screens, many images: from the original Gropius plans and
other related architectural works to a 3D animation of the
building, plus many theatre productions by Piscator, Meyerhold,
Schlemmer and others and many paintings, sculptures,
drawings and photographs by Duchamp, Mondrian, Picasso and
Man Ray among others.
The
exhibition will take place at the gallery of the Ministerio
de Fomento (specially dedicated to architectural exhibitions),
Paseo de la Castellana, nš 67, 28071 Madrid from 03-02-04
until 11-04-04.
Man
Ray's Paris Portraits: 1921-39
Oct 17 - Dec 20, 2003
MAN RAY’S PARIS PORTRAITS, 1921 – 1939
Carosso Fine Art, in association with Timothy Baum, noted
Man Ray expert and scholar, will present Man Ray’s Paris
Portraits, 1921 -1939, an in-depth survey of Man Ray’s
portrait photography in Paris during the two decades between
the two World Wars. The exhibition will open on Friday, October
17th, and will continue until Saturday, December 20th.
This exhibition, composed entirely of vintage period prints,
will cover the entire gamut of Man Ray’s vast array
of subjects: artists, writers, actors, composers, nightclub
performers, celebrities of the fashion and political worlds,
doyens of the contemporary aristocratic society, and other
personalities. Among the important images to be presented
in this show are studies of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas,
James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Proust on his Deathbed,
Kiki de Montparnasse, Erik Satie, André Breton, Sinclair
Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Picasso, Mrs. Wallis Simpson (prior
to becoming the Duchess of Windsor), and Léon Blum
(during his reign as leader of the French Socialist Party).
A total of approximately fifty works will be on display.
Please contact the gallery for further information.
CAROSSO
FINE ART
42 East 76th Street
New York, New York 10021
Tel: 212.744.5400
INFO@ACAROSSO.COM
Conversion
to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray
September 19–November 30, 2003
Georgia
Museum of Art
University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street, Athens, GA 30602
706.542.0463
706.542.1051 (fax)
manoguer@uga.edu
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
Man Ray (1890-1976), a painter, writer, sculptor, photographer
and filmmaker, is best known for his association with French
Surrealism in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Drawn from
an array of international private collections and museums,
Conversion to Modernism includes more than 80 drawings, watercolors,
oil paintings, and ephemerae related to Ray’s early
years as an artist. This exhibition concentrates on the work,
significant for an understanding of his artistic development
and the modernist era in the United States, produced by Ray
during the years 1907 through 1917. The first section of works,
dating from 1907 to 1912, offers viewers an indication of
the Philadelphia-born Man Ray’s development from his
high school years in Brooklyn to his early artistic studies
in New York. There, Ray saw exhibitions at Alfred Stieglitz’s
291 Gallery and was influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne.
The exhibition continues with a large section of Fauvist and
Cubist style works created by Ray during the years 1913 to
1915 when he lived in a small artist’s colony in Grantwood,
New Jersey. This era in Ray’s development marks a shift
from naturalistic to imaginary landscape painting. The exhibition
concludes with a sampling of Ray’s works, beginning
to show the impact of Marcel Duchamp and Dada, from 1916 and
1917.
Conversion to Modernism will be on view in the George-Ann
and Boone Knox Gallery of Prints and Drawings and the Rachel
Cosby Conway and Alfred Heber Holbrook Galleries. Organized
by Gail Stavitsky, chief curator at the Montclair Art Museum,
New Jersey, and Francis M. Naumann, Conversion to Modernism
is sponsored by Louis T. Griffith, a benefactor of the Friends
of the Museum, by the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation,
and by the Friends of the Museum.
The
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University
in Boone, North Carolina features
The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences
October
3 - December 13, 2003
The exhibition features 57 photographs and over 20 objects.
Also featured are works by Arp, Ernst, Kandinsky, Matisse,
Miro, Schwitters, Tanguy and others.
Photographs
of Man Ray
June
4 -June 29, 2003
Kyoto,
Japan - Museum Eki - 7th floor of Isetan Department Store
in JR Kyoto Station
The
Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Romano is planning
to organize an important exhibition on the collective identity
of a group and its representation in art and in photography,PERSONE.
Il Ritratto di Gruppo dall’Aristocrazia al Quarto
Stato, to be held in Rome, at Palazzo Venezia, from 30 October
2003 to 15 February 2004, curated by Omar Calabrese, Professor
of Semiology of Fine Arts at the University of Siena, and
the Soprintendente Professor Carlo Strinati, with the contribution
of an eminent Scientific Committee. More infomation
to come.
CONVERSION
TO MODERNISM: THE EARLY WORK OF MAN RAY
February 16, 2003 - August 3, 2003 at the Montclair Art
Museum
Curated by scholar Francis M.Naumann, Ph.D. and Gail Stavitsky
Ph. D.,Chief Curator of the Montclair Art
Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray will
open at the Montclair Art Museum on February 16, 2003.
Conversion to Modernism will feature 80 paintings and works
on
paper by Man Ray between 1907 and 1924. Man Ray is seldom
remembered as a New Jersey artist, though the years he spent
in the Ridgefield, New Jerseyenvirons, amid a lively artist
colony, played a seminal role in his becoming a leading
modernist who adopted an increasingly conceptual approach
toart-making. Conversion to Modernism includes expressive
figure studies and Cézannesque landscapes made from
observation, as well as Cubist still lifes, and a pivotal
series of "imaginary landscapes" based on his
recollections of a New Jersey camping trip in 1913. The
exhibition will also feature recently discovered photographs
taken by Man Ray in Ridgefield, and other rare
documentary materials, including copies of the various magazines
Man
Ray designed and hand-printed during his New Jersey years.
Conversion
to Modernism is complemented by a secondary exhibition
Jonathan Santlofer: The Man Ray Series January, 2003-June,
2003. A group of eight drawings by New York artist Jonathan
Santlofer, this survey offers aselection of the artist's
meticulous, trompe l'oeil renderings of images of Man Ray,
combined with adaptations of Man Ray's provocative, surrealistic
photographic images. Curated by Mary Birmingham. Man Ray
(1890-1976), has long been considered one of the most versatile
and innovative artists of the twentieth century. He is best
known for hisintimate association with the French Surrealist
group in Paris during the 1920's and 1930's, particularly
for his highly inventive and unconventional photographic
images. These remarkable well-acknowledged accomplishments
have overshadowed the importance of his earlier work - significant
not only for an understanding of Man Ray's future artistic
development, but also extremely important in an effort to
gain a thorough understanding of the visual arts in America
during one of the most important and crucial phases of the
modernist evolution.
LOCATION,
HOURS and ADMISSION
The Museum is located at 3 South Mountain Avenue in Montclair,
New
Jersey,twelve miles west of Manhattan. The Museum is accessible
by publictransportation. For information or directions,
call (973) 746-5555, or
checkthe website, www.montclairartmuseum.org.
Surrealist
Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray
THE ICONIC INFLUENCE OF LEE MILLER AT THE GETTY
Getty
Museum of Art February 25 - June 15, 2003
This exhibition focuses on Lee Miller (American, 1907-1977)
in her role as model, source of inspiration for other artists,
and as a creative artist working in photography. The show
traces Miller's life in photographs, paintings, and mixed-media
works, from her career as a fashion model in New York in
the 1920s to her bohemian life in Europe in the 1930s. During
the late 1920s Miller was the subject of photographs by
Edward Steichen, George Hyningen-Huene, and others in the
New York fashion scene. She became the studio assistant
and subject of photographs by Man Ray in Paris between 1929
and 1932, and with him she collaborated in the rediscovery
of the solarization process. She also inspired paintings,
drawings, mixed-media works and photographs by Man Ray and
Roland Penrose, and paintings by Pablo Picasso. Miller also
created a significant body of photographs that were inmed
by the principles of surrealism even when she was working
in portraiture, fashion, and journalism.
Please
visit http://www.getty.edu/
for more information
Man
Ray Exhibition
Saturday
12th April - Saturday 31st May
Monday - Saturday, 10.00 - 16.00
Tristan's
Gallery Photographers
49 Molesworth St, Wadebridge
Cornwall. PL27 7DR
Tel: 01208 815767
Man
Ray exhibition at Tristan's Gallery photographers in Wadebridge
Cornwall. A pioneer of 21st century photography and developer
of the solarization technique, Man Ray is regarded as the
consummate surrealist photographer and indeed one of the
greatest photographers that ever lived.
The images chosen by the gallery director Edward Davis cover
some of Man Rays best known works including Glass Tears
and The Kiss as well as some of the more surreal images.
Tristan's Gallery gives collectors a rare opportunity to
purchase his imagery.Man Rays works are rarely seen. This
exhibition provides Cornwall and Tristan's Gallery with
a remarkable opportunity.
Supporting
Man Ray are two prestigious London based photographers.
They are exhibiting a selection of their personal work chosen
to run in conjunction with the Man Ray pictures.Tony Bowran
exhibits a series of figurative images within the theme
of spirals. Figures entwining into sympathetic curves
with the background inspired by the works of Frantisek Drtikol
and painters such as Giordio Morandi and Sir William Nicholson.
Wonderfully quiet is an appropriate explanation for
Bowrans work.Charlie Roff with a more dynamic approach is
exhibiting a collection of limited edition platinum prints.
Always capturing new elements, the key to his
work is spontaneity. He seems always to be aware of
foreground/background relationships and in awe of what he
sees. His solution lies within his fascination of
ever changing light and shade.
Visit
CafÈ Man Ray
ONE DAY ONLY Dec. 14, 2002
at CafÈ Man Ray, Kyoto, JAPAN
This show is composed of 10 items
from The Personal Collection of Man Ray,
Teruo and Junko Ishihara.
These are the followings.
1) Magazine "View" June,1943 Cover Photograph by
Man Ray.
2) To Be Continued Unnoticed, Copley Galleries, 1948.
3) Invitations of Man Ray's Exhibition at Copley Galleries,
1948.
4) "Mr. Woodman" Original Photograph (1926/1962).
5) Postcard of "Man Ray A L'heure de l'observatoire-Les
amoureux" Juliet's signature. Dec. 1976.
6) Postcard of "Portrait of Juliet" Man Ray and
Juliet'S signature.
7) Letter for Teruo and Junko Ishihara from Juliet Man Ray,
Feb. 1983.8) Poster of the exhibition Man Ray at Nagoya City
Art Museum in May 1991. It carried an Object of "Cafe
Man Ray".
9) "Nu Bleute" Original silk screen on plexiglass.
1970. ed.22/25.
10) Tape of the lecture by Man Ray: The Doyen of Dadaism.
(1956/1973)."For the opening of my show, I had a typical
French cafÈ installed in the garden, run by Stravinsky's
daughter-in-law, Francoise, serving onion soup, red
wine and black coffee. People carried their whisky from
another room to the little tables and sat listening to popular
French records played on the phono. ----- The party lasted
late into the night, until all the whisky was consumed".
Man Ray "SELF PORTRAIT" P.355
ATLANTIC-LITTLE, BROWN, 1963.You can also enjoy the show in
Saturday December 14, 2002 from 11:00 -18:00
CafÈ
Man Ray
Syueid! o Building 1F, karasuma-Higashi-iru, BukoujiDori,
Shimogyoku, Kyoto 600 JAPAN
Phone 81-75-352-2772
Best
wishes,
man ray ist
Teruo Ishihara
URL: http://www.geocities.jp/manrayist/eindex.html
Email: manrayist@ybb.ne.jp
Hillwood
Art Museum
C.W. Post Long Island University- Brookville, New York
MAN
RAY: VOYEUR/VOYANT
OCTOBER
21 - NOVEMBER 26, 2002
View
IMAGES
Exhibiton
curated by Laura Moakley in conjunction with Hillwood
Art Museum
OPENING
RECEPTION: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 5 -8 PM
TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 29, 7- 8 PM- Michael Senft, Promient art
dealer of Man Ray will present a gallery talk.
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 24, 5:30-7pm- Francine Prose the author of
The
Lives of the Muses will be reading excerpts
about the relationship of Lee Miller and her musedom with
Man Ray. The reading will be followed by a book signing.
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Erotic
objectivity. This exhibition includes Man Ray’s photographs,
sculptures, paintings, prints, films, letters and drawings
reference the female form and its inherent sensuality. In
collaboration with the Long Island based Man Ray Trust and
private collectors, Hillwood Art Museum will present an
original exhibition curated jointly by Laura Moakley, Registrar
at the Man Ray Trust, and Hillwood Art Museum.
More
than 50 original works will be included in the exhibition
as well as ephemera collected by the artist. The grouping
includes work prints that Man Ray marked for cropping which
provide insight into his compositional techniques. Man Ray
used a variety of unique photographic medium into the genre
of Surrealism. Solarization, a technique that involves exposing
the light sensitive paper to more or less light during the
developing process, produces dramatic effects of light and
dark while other photographs use double exposure to enhance
surreal overtones. These techniques demonstrated Man Rays
innovative ideas and desire to make photographs in the vein
of
Surrealism.
Man Ray’s contribution to photography came from his
Dadaist background, friendship with Marcel Duchamp, and
his involvement with the Surrealists in Paris in the 1920’s.
His understanding of the nature of object-making and experimentation
free him, and other later artists, to use photography as
a form of expression within the language of Surrealism.
He used light sensitive photographic paper to explore two-dimensional
composition by placing objects on the paper, exposing it
to light and then developing the paper using a traditional
photographic process. These compositions of light and dark
are known as Rayographs. Since there is no negative involved,
as in traditional photography, they are each originals and
do not exist as multiples.
Each
of Man Ray’s artworks exhibits his immersion in the
zeitgeist of Surrealism. His interest in the Surreal informed
is artwork andfurthered his exploration of the female form.
the images contained in the exhibition are at once provocative
and elegant.
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Hillwood Art Museum is located on the C.W. Post campus of
Long Island University, at 720 Northern Boulevard (Route
25A) in Brookville, N.Y.
For more infomation please call (516)299-4073 or website
at http://www.liu.edu/museum
Directions : http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/location/directions.html
Hours of operation are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
9:30-4:30pm,Tuesday: 9:30-7:30, and Saturday 11:00-3:00pm
For more information contact Laura
Moakley
Denver
Museum of Art
Modernist
Photographs by Herbert Bayer and Man Ray
May
4th thru October 13, 2002.
.This
exhibition features works created around 1930 by Man Ray,
an American living in Paris, and Herbert Bayer, the Austrian-born
Bauhaus master who later moved to Aspen. Man Ray’s photographs,
from the portfolio Électricité (1931), include
Rayographs — his term for camera-less images made by
placing objects directly on photographic paper or film which
is then exposed to light. Bayer’s works include photomontages
(several images combined into one) and “fotoplastiken”
— his term for art made by constructing and photographing
abstract or surreal arrangements. Approximately 20 works from
the Denver Art Museum collection are included
http://www.denverartmuseum.org/
Haggerty
Museum of Art on Marquette University, Milwalkee
"Man
Ray on Paper"
April 1 - May 26, 2002
Works on paper by Man Ray including the 1926 Revolving Doors
portfolio are the subject of this exhibition which looks at
the important contribution made by Man Ray to Surrealism and
Abstraction. The Revolving Doors portfolio represents an important
body of work, which reflects Man Ray's interest in color and
abstraction. Also included in this exhibition will be the
photogravure series L'Electricité along with other
works by Man Ray.
For
more information on this exhibition please contact the Haggerty
Museum of Art.
Fine
Art Museums of San Francisco: Legion of Honor in Lincoln park
Dreaming with Open Eyes
February
2, 2002 - April 28, 2002
Approximately 200 provocative works document the raucous,
convention-challenging, highly creative histories of two closely
related movements in early 20th-century art: Dada and Surrealism.
Drawn from the renowned Vera, Silvia, and Artur Schwarz Collection
in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the show includes works
by such key figures as Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Paul Klee,
Joan Miro, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, among
many others. Work in all media will be shown, from sculpture
and books to paintings and photography, demonstrating the
experimental nature of both movements as artists drew upon
such devices as dream imagery, automatic or unconscious writing,
found objects, humor and parody, collage and construction
to attack notions of tradition and decorum in modern art.
The showing at the Legion of Honor is the first in a three-venue
tour of this exhibition, which is organized by the Israel
Museum.
For
More Information :
Legion of Honor
The
Metropolitian Museum of Art- New York, N.Y.
Surrealism: Desire Unbound
February 6, 2002–May 12, 2002
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
“A central theme of Surrealism, a major artistic movement
of the 20th century, was desire in its many manifestations.
The first major survey of Surrealism in more than 20 years,
this exhibition presents the richness and diversity of this
obsessive but very human and constant theme through more than
300 paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and
films. The selection ranges in date from the decade anticipating
the first manifestations of Surrealism in 1924 to more recent
years. Artists represented include Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph
Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst,
Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, René Magritte, Man
Ray, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso.”
(Met.org)
Man Ray’s photographic impotrantce in the surrealist
movement is seen through the many photographs featured.
For more information: www.met.org
International
Center of Photography -Midtown Manahttan, NY City
Man Ray: Photography and Its Double
November 18, 1998 to January 24, 1999
This exhibition, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou,
Musee national d'art moderne, Paris, is drawn from the Man
Ray archives donated to its collections in 1994. The archive's
13,500 negatives and more than 5,000 contact prints encourage
a new understanding of the artist's work. Original contact
prints are to a photographer what sketches are to a painter:
both permit art historians and the public to study the artist's
working methods. Similarly, the negatives-some of which have
been specially printed so they could be compared to the vintage
prints (they were printed as contacts, and therefore without
interpretation)-point to the photographer's work of printing.
Man Ray, who liked to present the image of himself as a dilettante,
let us believe that his photographs were the result of chance.
This presentation of his work proves that they were rather
the product of careful reflection and diligent labor.
This exhibition is made possible with generous support from
Calvin Klein.
J.Paul
Getty Museum -Los Angeles, CA
A
Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray
October 27, 1998 - January 17, 1999
This exhibition, drawn from the Museum's collection with loans
from the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and
the Humanities, is a broad survey of the photographs by Man
Ray, the American painter, filmmaker, sculptor, and photographer
best known for his contributions to the Dada and Surrealist
movements in Paris between the World Wars. The title of this
exhibition of more than 100 works is taken from the artist's
own words. As Man Ray explained in 1945, his art was designed
to amuse, bewilder, annoy, or to inspire reflection, but not
to arouse admiration for any technical excellence... The streets
are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
Curated
by Kate Ware, Assistant Curator of Photographs, J. Paul Getty
Museum
At
The Salvador
Dali Museum -St.Petersberg, Florida
Comprehensive
American Surrealism Exhibition
November
11th 1998 - February 14, 1999
On November 6, the Salvador Dali Museum will open Surrealism
in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the
Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection. The exhibition will be
on view through February 14, 1999 and features over 70 works
from the private collection of Dr. and Mrs. Elton and Penny
yasuna, of Longboat Key, Florida.
The
exhibition empasizes works by American surrealists such as
Joseph Cornell, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Kay Sage and others.
It also shows the evolution of the Abstract-Expressionist
movement in America from the roots of Surrrealism with works
by Robert Motherwell, Arshile gorky, mark Rothko and Adolph
Gottlieb. works by Europeans who fled during World War II
are presented only if their works wer done in the U.S., and
include Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy and Kurt Seligmann.
The exhibition shows the development of American art in far
more complex forms than stadard histories suggest. Surrealist-related
tendencies during the 1930s and 1940s were important catalysts
in the development of a new American avant garde.
"Elton and Penny Yasuna have granted us the unique opportunity
to view an exciting exhibition from their large collection
of American surrealistic works," said T. Marshall Rousseau,
Executive Director of the Salvador Dali Museum. "Over
54 artists are represented in this exhibit and these artists
were either directly associated with the surrealist movement
in the United States or exhibiting in group exhibitions with
other surrealists."
Dr. William Jefrett, Curator of Exhibitions at the Dali Museum
and of this exhibit adds, "Surrealism played a decisive
role in the transformation of American art from a relatively
isolated scene to an international one."
FONDAZIONE
ANTONIO MAZZOTTA Modern Art -Milan, Italy
13th
Sept. '98 - 24th Jan. '99
The
1998 Autumn-Winter exhibition appointment at the Mazzotta
Foundation is dedicated to yet another of the masters of 20th
Century art, Man Ray, in a retrospective made possible thanks
to the now regular assistance of the Cultural Department of
the Province of Milan and to the support of the Fondazione
CARIPLO.
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