Exhibition
Barbara Rossi: Poor Traits
09/16/15-01/03/16
Conversations · Exhibition-Related
Lisa Stone and Natalie Bell in Conversation
Cover Image:
Barbara Rossi, Eye Deal, 1974. Acrylic on Plexiglas panel and frame, 41 1/8 × 31 1/8 × 2 in (104.5 × 79 × 5 cm). The Bill McClain Collection of Chicago Imagism, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Courtesy Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Photo: Doug Fath
Join curator and scholar Lisa Stone and Natalie Bell, Assistant Curator at the New Museum, for a conversation about Barbara Rossi’s practice. Stone has been an ardent admirer of Rossi’s work for decades and is deeply familiar with her creative orbit, as well as the sphere of artists known as the Chicago Imagists. A member of the Roger Brown Study Collection Steering Committee since 1997, Rossi has been a guiding spirit in Stone’s work as Curator at the Collection.
In addition to being Curator at the Roger Brown Study Collection, Stone is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on the preservation and interpretation of artists’ collections and the relationship of objects to creative practice. She works on the documentation and preservation of environments by artists whose works are home- or garden-based and who ignore or dissolve boundaries between home and studio, and between life and art.
Sponsors
Exhibition Supporters
Support for “Barbara Rossi: Poor Traits” is provided by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Charles and Kathleen Harper, Laura Skoler, Michael J. Robertson and Christopher A. Slapak, and an anonymous gift.
The Producers Council of the New Museum is gratefully acknowledged.
Education Supporters
Exhibition-related programs are made possible, in part, through the support of the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Generous endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
