Museum Admission free all day!
12:15 guided tour of Eva Hesse: Studiowork included with museum admission.
On View in the Galleries:
Jill Magid / MATRIX 237
March 20–June 12
Jill Magid’s recent work explores the intersection of governmental power and current events. For MATRIX, Magid considers a shooting at the Texas State Capitol by Fausto Cardenas in relation to Goethe’s Faust, finding in the obvious but ultimately fruitful association similar tragic themes. By turning the gallery into a stage for the reading of Faust, a “closet drama,” the piece engages the larger themes of truth and fiction, language and translation, history and legend, gesture and performance, revelation and redaction, individual and institution.
Continuing Exhibitions
For complete details on these continuing exhibitions, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu
Eva Hesse: Studiowork
Through April 10
Like other artists of the 1960s, sculptor Eva Hesse (1936–1970) pushed the conceptual and technical limits of art. Organized by the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, this exhibition presents rarely seen small-scale works, many from BAM/PFA’s own collection, that illuminate Hesse’s studio practice and capture moments of experimentation.
Indeterminate Stillness: Looking at Whistler
Through April 17
This exhibition, celebrating Sharon and Barclay Simpson’s gift to BAM/PFA of sixty-two prints by James McNeill Whistler, looks at how Whistler subordinated Realism to the Modernist concerns of design, color, and tonal variation.
Abstract Now and Then
Abstract Now, Through June 26
Abstract Then, Through May 8
This exhibition in two parts draws on BAM/PFA’s rich permanent collection to present an overview of abstraction from the 1940s to 2010, including Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, as well as works that exemplify how a new generation of artists is extending, reinterpreting, and challenging the legacy of these pivotal movements.
Echoes of the Past: Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting
Through June
This selection of new acquisitions highlights the ink painters of the Ming and Qing dynasties whose work was inspired by the artists of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Nature into Action: Hans Hofmann
Through June
Drawn from BAM/PFA’s extensive Hans Hofmann collection, this installation reveals the relationship between nature as source and action as method in the great abstract painter’s work.
Thom Faulders: BAMscape
Through May 2012
How often do you get a chance to sit, lounge, or study on a work of art? BAMscape invites you to interact with art—and with the museum—in unexpected ways.
