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Permanent Collection
| BAM's Permanent Collection of 2,300 works of art focuses on 20th century American art with a long-standing emphasis on artists of the Pacific Northwest, American Realism and ceramics. BAM's Collection also includes a survey of European and non-Western artwork designed to provide a broader context for the overall Collection. The Permanent Collection is exhibited thematically, with current exhibits Go figure, H20, and Elegance of Form |
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Go Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection
February 16 , 2008 - TBD
Go Figure highlights a series of works from Boise Art Museum's Permanent Collection that focus on the variety of ways in which the figure can be interpreted. The artworks are drawn from Collectors Forum acquisitions for BAM as well as recent gifts from private collectors. Included are paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs that are contemporary in outlook and non-traditional in format, scale and approach. Both stylized figures and real-life personalities are portrayed, and implied narratives can suggest social or political content. Each work in the exhibition was selected to encourage questions about why or how the artist depicted a particular subject.
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Go Figure , installation detail
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H20: Selections From the Permanent Collection
December 22, 2007 - TBD
H2O is small exhibition of artworks from the permanent collection depicting water in various forms, from rain to ice and oceans to rivers. The show highlights some recent gifts to the permanent collection as well, and complements the John Taylor exhibition on seafaring and maritime culture.
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H2O, installation detail
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Elegance of Form: Selections of American Art from the Permanent Collection
Ongoing
The artworks featured in this exhibition reflect an emphasis on the formal elements of art – live, shape, color, texture and form. Contemporary American ceramics and two-dimensional works of art from the Permanent Collection are juxtaposed to illustrate similarities and differences in medium and design. Building on its holdings of works by American and Northwest artists, the Museum has acquired a substantial collection of contemporary and historical ceramics through the gift of 165 objects from John Takehara, a respected ceramist and long-time professor of ceramics at Boise State University. To augment the collection, the Museum has added works by well-known regional ceramists such as Larry Elsner, Jim Romberg, Anne Hirondelle and Frank Boyden, as well as American ceramics pioneers Peter Voulkos, Rudy Autio and Robert Sperry. |
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