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Micro/Macro: Works Both Large and Small from RAM's Collection

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Where: Racine Art Museum

When: 02/08/2008 to 05/25/2008

Time: 10:00am to 5:00pm

Days of Week: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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Contact: Laura Gillespie

Description:

Micro/Macro: Works Both Large and Small from RAM?s Collection explores the works of contemporary craft artists employing different sizes to more fully explore their creative impulses.

Scale became a significant consideration for artists working in all media in the mid-twentieth century. During this time, Abstract Expressionist painters like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock began to use monumental canvases as vehicles of contemporary expression. In the 1980s and 1990s, installation art?sculptures made up of many three-dimensional parts that filled large gallery spaces?expanded on this interest in magnitude.

In the 1960s, artists of the Studio Craft movement responded to these developments in contemporary painting and sculpture by exploring innovative approaches to create large-sized works in craft media. In their studios, they developed new technologies to achieve scale in their work.