THREE EXCELLENCES OF CULTURE: ART ROSENBAUM AND FRIENDS OPENS AT PEARL FINCHER MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS SEPTEMBER 24/BY A THREAD CONTINUES/ INTRODUCING MARKUS KLINKO/ MICHAEL K. PAXTON/ ONE OF A KIND COINS/LANEY MOREWITZ OF TEAM TITAN

Three Excellences of Culture: Painting, Poetry and Music, the Work of Art Rosenbaum and Friends

Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring Texas

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This fall the Pearl is proud to present, in cooperation with the Linda Matney Gallery in Virginia, a colorful exhibition featuring the narrative painter Art Rosenbaum; his wife, professional photographer Margo Newmark Rosenbaum; and the friends and former students they met along the way. The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, September 24.

Art Rosenbaum paints images of Southern folklore in richly colored canvases that depict lively figures often dancing or holding musical instruments. After moving to Georgia, Art and Margo met musicians such as Ring Shouters on the Georgia coast, banjo and fiddle players in the mountains, faith-filled singers in African American churches, and old-school blues players. These musicians made their way into Art’s paintings as well as Margo’s photographs. “

A typical Rosenbaum canvas is fairly teeming with figures, many of them specific portraits, often including the artist himself,” writes painter Philip Morsberger. “Elements of landscape, of architecture, of still life (often musical instruments): all are presented in rich detail, but at the same time with bold and fearless brushwork. There is no dead space in a Rosenbaum painting. Something is going on everywhere one looks.”

Rosenbaum’s paintings are in many collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art. He also plays a variety of folk instruments, and his music will be part of the exhibition at the Pearl. Rosenbaum’s boxed set, Art of Field Recording Vol. 1: Fifty Years of American Traditional Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum won a Grammy for Best Documentary Recording in 2008.

Margo Newmark Rosenbaum has collaborated with Art over many years in documenting American traditional music. Her photographs have been published in several books by Art Rosenbaum as well as the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Old-Time Herald. Margo’s work has been widely exhibited and is part of many private collections.

Three Excellences of Culture will be featured in both the Main Gallery and the Cole Gallery at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts this fall. Among the other artists whose work will be included are Howard Finster, who designed album covers for R.E.M. and the B-52’s; Len Jenkin, whose work includes scripts for Family, The Incredible Hulk, and the novel New Jerusalem; Michael Paxton, Bonnie Loggins, Dennis Harper, Kent Knowles, Scott Belville, Dilmus Hall. Zuzka Vaclavik, and Teddy Johnson.

The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, September 24 with a members-only preview on Friday evening. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and admission is free. Please note that the Pearl will be closed September 4 – 23 for the exhibition change.

For more information, visit pearlmfa.org.

The Pollinator Effect

This fall, the Pearl will also engage hundreds of local students to create an outdoor art display that integrates art and science in a project called, “The Pollinator Effect.” Museum staff are building a replica of a beehive outside the Pearl. Students from public, private and home schools will then create bumble bees or butterflies out of recycled materials and attach them to the hive. Inside the museum’s Cobb gallery, a mural installation featuring work by Virginia needle felt artist Ryan Lytle will explain the importance of pollinators and their role in the ecosystem.

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Kristin Skees and Ryan Lytle: By a Thread

July 29 – September 20, 2022

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By A Thread is a selection of recent and collaborative work by Kristin Skees and Ryan Lytle.

Through photography and sculpture, this show takes a playful look at how the fabric of our self identity is woven from experiences, environments, and relationships, shaped into an expression of who we are and how we impact the world around us.

Skees’ photographs investigate identity through the spaces we create (both personal and collective), and the uneasy relationship between the subject and artist, and artist and viewer.

Lytle’s sculptures explore memory, storytelling, and folklore as the underlying force shaping our search for self identity.

Working as colleagues for years, Skees and Lytle have taken this exhibition opportunity to develop a new body of collaborative work. Their shared love of fiber, bold color and exploration of identity forms a foundation for new playful and experimental self-portraits.

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