The Sacramento Bee: Exhibition brings towering art giant back to where he made it big
October, 2018: Bruce Nauman is one of the most significant and influential artists of the 20th Century. In the late 1960’s and early ‘70s he took Marcel Duchamp’s revolutionary Dada “readymades” 10 steps further, deploying a multi-faceted process and site-oriented work to break radical conceptual ground.
Nauman viewed his work as research into the creative process, not the creation of objects and things with production values inherent in a consistent style. He was one of the first artists to use his own body as both medium and substrate to question language and to activate space. His work was often absurdest, a cocktail of sculpture, performance, video, drawing, and large-scale installation which first emerged while he was a graduate student at UC Davis.
The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, with guest curator Ted Mann, has organized and produced the first exhibition of Blue and Yellow Corridor, an architectural installation Nauman conceived in 1970. Read more...
The Sacramento Bee: Irving Marcus, master of ‘simultaneous contradictions,’ gets overdue recognition
October, 2018: “You’ve got to grow old,” mused Irving Marcus, “to realize the potential of paint.”
At 89, Marcus is having his first-ever retrospective at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. The 60-odd works in the show (mostly oil paintings and oil pastels, plus a few graphite drawings) bear witness to his realization of that potential and make one wonder what took the official art world so long to recognize it. Read more...
UC Davis News: Manetti Shrem Museum Fall Season Features Bruce Nauman, Irving Marcus Exhibition Brings UC Davis Graduate Nauman’s Work Home
September, 2018: The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, will open its fall 2018-19 season with two new exhibitions, Bruce Nauman: Blue and Yellow Corridor on view Sept. 27 – Dec. 16, and Irving Marcus: Romance & Disaster, A Retrospective Sept. 27 – Dec. 30. Read more...
UC Davis News: Manetti Shrem Museum’s Summer Season Features Northern California Debut of Artists Susan Swartz and Andrea Chung
June 2018: The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, launches its summer season on Saturday, June 30, with two exhibitions highlighting the university’s distinctive legacy of nurturing and exhibiting innovative contemporary art. Read more...
San Francisco Chronicle: Wayne Thiebaud’s early works still confound
January 2018: Something about the early paintings of food by Wayne Thiebaud — as visually stunning, sensually appealing as they are — has resisted interpretation since their debut, half a century ago. Read more...