FALL HAPPENINGS
It's been a busy and energizing season at the Addison. Last month we were pleased to welcome artist Reggie Burrows Hodges for a week-long residency leading up to the Fall Opening Reception, and we have more exciting programs related to the collection and current exhibitions coming up. We hope to see you soon!
The Addison is free and open to the public, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm.
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COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: Music and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #123
Sunday, November 5, 2:00 pm
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This month, members of the Phillips Academy orchestra explored the intersection between minimal art and minimal music as they installed Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #123 in the Addison’s Museum Learning Center.
Join Assistant Curator Rachel Vogel, Music Instructor Christina Landolt, and members of the orchestra to learn more about the wall drawing, its creation, and its connection to composer Terry Riley’s In C. Light refreshments will be served. A performance of In C, along with a multimedia and interactive performance of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Moussorgsky, will follow at 4:30 pm in Cochran Chapel, across the street from the Addison. Free and open to the public.
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GALLERY TALK: Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context
Saturday, November 18, 2:00 pm
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Curators Gordon Wilkins and Rachel Vogel will lead visitors through the galleries to discuss the themes and works presented in the exhibition. This free program has been organized with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library. Space is limited, registration is required.
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VIRTUAL TALK: Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context
Tuesday, December 12, 2:00 pm
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Curators Gordon Wilkins and Rachel Vogel will lead participants on a virtual tour through the works and themes presented in the exhibition. This free event is organized with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; registration is required. A video recording of the program will be available about a week after the presentation.
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Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship (through December 31) presents a new body of work that engages with and expands the tradition of maritime painting. In these compositions, Hodges contemplates the notion of turning a big ship—of marshalling collective will and labor to resist a powerful current.
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From Murray Whyte's review in the Boston Globe (10/13/23):
“It’s not hard to read the show as a response to marine painting’s blithe celebration of a young nation’s adventurous, seafaring spirit. That’s not the half of it. The sea brought settlers, then trade, and with it, enslavement and its harrowing fallout, still so present even now. The big ship to turn, it seems, remains America itself, forever on a tack and jibe of two steps forward, one back.”
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Sea Change (through December 31) brings together historic and contemporary selections from the Addison’s collection of seascapes, maritime art, and model ships to explore the ocean and its shores as spaces of labor, leisure, passage, and peril.
View a virtual tour »
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REGGIE BURROWS HODGES: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
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Hayes Prize recipient Reggie Burrows Hodges was in residence for the week of September 25, during which he met with dozens of groups from Phillips Academy, local public schools, and community groups. In the galleries and in the artist studio, students, faculty, and visitors had the opportunity to tour the exhibition and hear about Hodges' career and inspirations.
Hodges talked with students and faculty from Phillips Academy courses in Studio Art, History, Literature, and Music; Lowell High School courses in English and Art; and an Essex Art Center (Lawrence, MA) adult art class.
During his residency week, Hodges also created new work in our artist's studio, presented a public gallery talk, gave a tour for members of the AAC, and attended the public opening reception.
Read more and view additional images »
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Images:
Addison Gallery exterior, Addison staff; Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #123 (in progress), 1972, black pencil, gift of the artist, Addison Art Drive, 1991.20, Addison staff; Neal Rantoul, Salt Lake, Utah, 2019, digital capture archival inkjet print, 30 x 44 inches, gift of the artist, 2021.70; Jesse Burke, As Long as the Grass Shall Grow, 2015, archival inkjet print mounted on board, 45 x 30 inches, gift of Dr. Joseph Chazan, 2021.7; installation views of Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship, Sea Change, and Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context, Julia Featheringill; Reggie Burrows Hodges' residency, Neil Evans.
Exhibition and program credits:
Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship is sponsored by the Addison Artist Council and AAC Founders Alison Beaumont Hoeven ’83, Nicholas ’94 and Sasha Olney, and Sarah ‘83 and Nathanael ‘83 Worley; the Winton Family Fund; and the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence Fund.
Sea Change is generously supported by the Sidney R. Knafel Fund.
Generous support for Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context has been provided by the Elizabeth and Anthony Enders Exhibitions Fund and the Mollie Bennett Lupe and Garland M. Lasater Exhibition Fund.
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