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Zuckert Seminar RoomSelected Works
Film still from Silueta Sangrienta (Bloody Silhouette), 1975, by Ana Mendieta, Cuban-American, 1948–1985.Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent, 1:51 minutes. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund in partnership with the New Media Arts Consortium, a collaboration of the art museums at Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Colby College, Mount Holyoke College, and Skidmore College” © 2023 The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.
Apollo and Daphne, 1513, oil on canvas, 24 3/8" x 19 1/4", by Pontormo, Italian, 1494–1557. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
About
Emilie Stark-Menneg’s Supernatural explores the permeability of the boundary between life and death in a dynamic suite of new works that take inspiration from sources as diverse as the sixteenth century Italian painter Pontormo and the twentieth century feminist artist Ana Mendieta. In her imagery of regeneration and regrowth, Stark-Menneg identifies a metaphor for the intersection of art with life, echoing the work of fellow artists from the Renaissance to our own era, and transporting us into the realm of the supernatural, where brave new worlds await.
Major support for the exhibition has been provided by the Lowell Innes Fund.
Read the illustrated exhibition labels here.
Read the press release here.
Programming
Artist’s Talk with Emilie Stark-Menneg
July 20, 2023 | Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
Bowdoin College
Emilie Stark-Menneg, artist, offers insights into her work in conjunction with the exhibition “Emilie Stark-Menneg’s Supernatural” on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 24 through August 20, 2023.
Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and recorded at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, on July 20, 2023.
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