The Old, Weird America
Select images from the Frye Art Museum exhibit.
Jeremy Blake. Winchester, 2002.
View Slideshow »Jeremy Blake. Winchester, 2002.
View Slideshow »Barnaby Furnas. John Brown, 2005.
View Slideshow »Deborah Grant. Where Good Darkies Go, 2006.
View Slideshow »Cynthia Norton. Dancing Squared, 2004.
View Slideshow »Greta Pratt. Nine Lincolns, 2000.
View Slideshow »Charlie White. 1957, 2006.
Read more about the exhibit here.
The Old, Weird America was organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and has been made possible by the patrons, benefactors, and donors to the Museum’s Major Exhibition Fund. This exhibition has also been made possible by generous support from Union Pacific Foundation and Michael Zilkha.
Eighteen artists in various mediums ponder the blend of fact and fiction in our nation’s history. Greta Pratt, for instance, muses on the many possible faces of Honest Abe in an 18-photo piece that gives us Nineteen Lincolns. Sam Durant’s motorized Pilgrims and Indians, Planting and Reaping, Learning and Teaching, meanwhile, presents a trenchant, two-sided diorama peopled with life-size wax figures. The structure rotates to expose the truth behind a cheesy tableau of Native Americans sharing corn with the original colonists: Captain Myles Standish killing a Pequot Indian whom he felt had insulted him.
The exhibit runs from October 3–January 3. Read more about it and other noteworthy cultural events here.
