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Virtual Event: Surrealism in Mexico, Annual Goodman Lecture on Latin American Art

 

 

Surrealism in Mexico
Live Virtual Lecture by Jennifer Field, Ph.D.

Thursday, April 15
6:30 PM
Free to attend
(Suggested Donation $10)

This live virtual talk will examine the robust artistic period in Mexico between 1940 and 1955 that emerged from liberal ideas about collaboration, immigration, and gender roles. As European artists and writers sought refuge from World War II, some fled to the United States; others sought refuge south of the border. European Surrealists had long harbored notions of Mexico as a land deeply connected to the vestiges of a mythical, pre-modern utopia. Soon after their arrival, a core group of artist émigrés deepened their engagement with local histories and customs in ways that changed the development of their own work and of Surrealist thought. Artists Leonora Carrington, Esteban Francés, José and Kati Horna, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Alice Rahon, and Remedios Varo were among those who made Mexico their long-term or permanent home.

Jennifer Field is Executive Director of the Estate of David Smith. She has held curatorial and research positions at Di Donna Galleries, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her projects have included the exhibitions Surrealism in Mexico at Di Donna Galleries and Martin Puryear, Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, and De Kooning: A Retrospective at MoMA. Dr. Field received her M.A. from Hunter College and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

For additional assistance or questions, please contact Justine Scerbo via email
or 954-262-0249

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Conversations With Collectors: Don And Mera Rubell With Bonnie Clearwater

Don and Mera Rubell

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s series will present a talk with world-renowned collectors Don and Mera Rubell on Saturday, March 28 at 2 p.m. The Rubell’s will be joined in conversation by Bonnie Clearwater, NSU Art Museum’s director and chief curator. Conversations with Collectors is presented by Northern Trust.

The talk is free with Museum admission. (Museum admission free for members, $12 non-members, $8 for seniors, free for children under 12.) It will take place in NSU Art Museum’s Horvitz Auditorium (One East Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale).  Space is limited. Please RSVP to moareservations@moafl.org or 954-0262-0221

Don and Mera Rubell have built one of largest and most respected contemporary art collections in the world with over 7,200 works by more than 1,000 artists. They are known for recognizing and championing artists early in their careers, and have often acquired what have become seminal and defining works. Their expanded Rubell Museum opened in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood in December, 2019 with an exhibition that chronicles the key artists, moments and movements of the past 50 years, and also traces the Rubell’s own storied collecting history.  Several works owned by the Rubell’s are currently on view at NSU Art Museum in the exhibition Happy!.

For additional information, visit nsuartmuseum.org or call 954-525-5500.

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