Past Exhibitions

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  • Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession-Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

    April 20–July 3, 2004

    The origin of modern sculpture begins with Rodin and the reaction he provoked by reconfiguring the human form. Before him, figurative sculpture had been wedded to the classical canons of beauty and form. No previous sculptor had envisioned or conceived the human figure as a fragmented or partial entity, nor had they explored sexuality and eros with such candid conviction.

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  • Watercolors from The Collection

    March 6–June 13, 2004

    The Albright-Knox Art Gallery was pleased to present a selection of rarely seen watercolors from the Collection. The show included work by Milton Avery, Raoul Dufy, and Emil Nolde. There were also seventeenth-century watercolors from India and Persia featured.

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  • Robert Motherwell and Frank Stella: Prints from the Permanent Collection

    March 6–June 13, 2004

    The Albright-Knox is renowned for its important collection of post-war American painting and sculpture. What is less known is that the museum also has a significant collection of post-war American prints. Two of America’s greatest printmakers, Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) and Frank Stella (born 1936), are particularly well represented.

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  • John Beech from The Collection

    February 7–April 4, 2004

    John Beech is an artist who has captured international attention in both solo and group exhibitions. Well represented in both public and private collections throughout the United States, many of his works were recently acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. He converts manufactured goods into formal, aesthetic objects, calling himself “the everyday reductionist.”

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  • Julie Mehretu: Drawing Into Painting

    January 24–March 28, 2004

    Julie Mehretu is a painter who makes large-scale, ultra dynamic canvases built up through a complicated series of acrylic layers on canvas overlaid with explorative, frenetic, markings. Her points of departure are architecture and the city, particularly the accelerated, compressed and highly dense urban environments of the twenty-first century.

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  • Architecture into Form

    October 18, 2003–March 4, 2004

    In conjunction with Mori on Wright, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery mounted this exhibition, gleaned from the Gallery’s rich collection of sculpture, painting, and photographs.

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  • An Optical Experience: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection

    November 8, 2003–February 22, 2004

    In conjunction with the Fall 2003 Museum Studies class at Canisius College, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery exhibited a selection of works on paper from the Gallery’s permanent collection.

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  • Janine Antoni: Incarnate

    September 13, 2003–February 1, 2004

    Janine Antoni transforms the seemingly inconsequential and routine acts of living into tools for making art. She gives form to visceral experience. Incarnate brings together a selection of her recent works, exploring the way our mothers, both in a literal and ecological sense, form our existence.

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  • Materials, Metaphors, Narratives

    October 4, 2003–January 4, 2004

    Materials, Metaphors, Narratives describes the work of six contemporary artists united by a common ethos. Petah Coyne, Lesley Dill, Ken Price, Tom Sachs, Jeanne Silverthorne, and Fred Tomaselli are object makers first and foremost.

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  • The Drawings of Rube Goldberg

    April 12–July 6, 2003

    Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970) was a colorful figure whose early life in San Francisco during the Gilded Age, and whose training as a draftsman and engineer, primed him for a career as a satirist.

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