Whom You Know: "Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016" Extended Through Jan. 16, 2017

Thursday, December 15, 2016

"Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016" Extended Through Jan. 16, 2017

Steven Young Lee, Jar with Landscape and Gold Butterflies, 2015, porcelain, cobalt inlay, glaze, decals. Collection of Tom Rossiter and Nathalie Ribon-Tourre. Image courtesy Duane Reed Gallery

Kristen Morgin, Piano Forte, 2004, unfired clay, wood, wire, salt, cement, glue. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Purchase

Jennifer Trask, Burgeon, 2012, Found 18th & 19th century Italian gilt wood fragments, 22K & 23.5 K gold leaf, antler, bone, teeth (various), epoxy resin. Private collection. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by Storm Photo

Norwood Viviano, Mining Industries: Downtown Boston (Boston), 2015, rapid prototyped pattern kilncast glass, mirrored glass, fabricated steel and transparency. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Heller Gallery, New York. Photo by Tim Thayer/Robert Hensleigh, courtesy Heller Gallery, NY

The closing date for the exhibition "Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016" at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum has been extended through Jan. 16, 2017.

"Visions and Revisions" presents the work of Steven Young Lee, Kristen Morgin, Jennifer Trask and Norwood Viviano, contemporary artists expanding the boundaries of their mediums through innovative approaches to their materials and techniques. The exhibition includes more than 70 objects showcasing a range of early and new works by each artist. Signature works by each are be displayed, including Morgin's to-scale clay depictions of a "decaying" grand piano and a low-rider car and Viviano's room-sized installation "Global Cities," comprising suspended forms of fused and sculpted glass depicting burgeoning world populations.

Nora Atkinson, the museum's Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, organized the exhibition. The artists were selected by Atkinson; Suzanne Ramljak, curator of exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts and editor at Metalsmith; and Anna Walker, the Windgate Foundation Curatorial Fellow for Contemporary Craft at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A catalog is available for purchase ($34.95) in the museum's store and online.

Credit

The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation Endowment provides support for the "Renwick Invitational." The Cohen Family's generosity in creating this endowment makes possible this biennial series highlighting outstanding craft artists who are deserving of wider national recognition.

About the Renwick Gallery

The Renwick Gallery is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's branch for contemporary craft and decorative arts. The Renwick is located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street N.W. and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec. 25). Admission is free. Follow the museum on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, iTunes U and ArtBabble. Smithsonian information: (202) 633-1000. Museum information (recorded): (202) 633-7970. Website: americanart.si.edu.

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