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ICELANDIC ARTIST HILDUR ÁSGEIRSDÓTTIR JÓNSSON FEATURED AT THE BECHTLER MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

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Friday, February 16, 2024
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Born and raised in Iceland, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson (b.

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  • CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Born and raised in Iceland, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson (b.
  • Jónsson's paintings—she prefers this term to "weavings" or "textiles"— are based on photographs she takes of Icelandic landscapes and seascapes on extended trips there twice a year.
  • "This exhibition continues the museum's commitment to highlighting global modernism and its legacies," said Todd D. Smith, Executive Director, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.
  • On view at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art from February 17 – June 2, 2024, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson: Infinite Space, Sublime Horizons is the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. in nearly a decade, and her first monographic show in the Southeast.

Frist Art Museum Presents Major Survey of Modern Art Created in the American South

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frist Art Museum presents Southern/Modern, the first comprehensive survey of paintings and works on paper created in the American South between 1913 and 1955 that reflect a period of change and upheaval across the region. Organized by the Mint Museum in collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist's Ingram Gallery from January 26 through April 28, 2024.

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  • NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frist Art Museum presents Southern/Modern , the first comprehensive survey of paintings and works on paper created in the American South between 1913 and 1955 that reflect a period of change and upheaval across the region.
  • "The exhibition explores the history of socially and stylistically progressive art in the American South," writes Frist Art Museum chief curator Mark Scala.
  • Additional funding comes from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
  • The Frist Art Museum is supported in part by The Frist Foundation, Metro Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art welcomes internationally renowned artist William Wegman for a major exhibition: “WILLIAM WEGMAN Around Bermuda”

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is continuing this legacy by welcoming internationally renowned artist William Wegman for a major exhibition.

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  • Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is continuing this legacy by welcoming internationally renowned artist William Wegman for a major exhibition.
  • WILLIAM WEGMAN Around Bermuda opens to the public Saturday, May 13, 2023.
  • It features postcard paintings made by the artist over twenty years and reflects his ongoing engagement with Bermuda, one of his self-professed favourite subjects.
  • Especially for Masterworks Museum, Wegman has also created four new paintings and an artist’s book, also entitled Around Bermuda (2023), in celebration of the exhibition.