2004 Exhibitions

A Very Liquid Heaven

October 23, 2004 - June 5, 2005

Through historical artifacts, star charts, maps, globes, and contemporary art, this exhibition poses questions regarding the nature of time, the constancy of experience, and the human perception of change. See More

Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions

Paradise and Plumage: Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting

September 25, 2004 - January 2, 2005

This exhibition featured Chinese and Tibetan versions of identical compositions and juxtaposed paintings and objects of the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries from China and Tibet. See More

Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions

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Julia Jacquette: I Dreamt

June 26 - September 5, 2004

The paintings on view stylistically resemble optimistic post-war era magazine illustrations, but beneath Jaquette’s polished renderings lays a critique of middle class Americana and its cultural reproduction through advertising. See More

Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions, Alumni Exhibitions

About Painting

June 26 - September 26, 2004

Featuring a diverse and eccentric group of artworks by seventy artists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, About Painting explores the legacy and developments of the medium in the twenty-first century. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions

About Sculpture

June 26, 2004 - January 2, 2005

About Sculpture accompanies the large-scale exhibition About Painting and features artworks from the Tang Collection as well as several on extended loan, including work by Jean Blackburn, Beverly Semmes, Dorothy Dehner, Charles Long, Richard Pettibone, and others. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions

Alumni Invitational

May 1 - June 6, 2004

The Tang’s first Alumni Invitational features new work by four artists, all Skidmore College alumni — ceramic artist David Dalva ’85, photographer Susan Lipper ’75, and painters Sarah Lutz ’89 and Susan Rabinowitz Malloy ’45. See More

Filed Under: Group Exhibitions, Alumni Exhibitions

Hair: Untangling a Social History

January 24 - June 6, 2004

From a hirsute Beasty Girl to a lock of George Washington’s hair, this project explores the significance of facial, head, and body hair in western society from the Renaissance to the present. See More

Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated

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Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis

January 24 - April 11, 2004

Shazia Sikander: Nemesis features drawings, jewel-like paintings as small as six by eight inches, a site-specific installation, and two new animations See More

Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions

Body Parts: A Self- Portrait by John Coplans

January 24 - April 11, 2004

Body Parts: A Self-Portrait by John Coplans features twenty-six large black-and-white photographs from 2001–2002, Coplans’s final series before his death in August 2003. See More

Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions