Anderson Gallery Tonight
Opening Reception from 7 – 9 pm
Tom Sachs
Buckminster Fuller
2004
From the RBC Dain Rauscher Art Collection
The Human Touch
Selections from the Collection of RBC Dain Rauscher
Featuring selections from RBC Dain Rauscher’s corporate collection of contemporary art. The collection, which was started by RBC Dain chairman Irv Weiser, is wide-ranging in its scope- with images that are both whimsical and serious in a diverse variety of media. The collection includes work by renowned artists with an emphasis on the human figure. Featured artists will include Nan Goldin, Chuck Close, Elizabeth Peyton, and Claudette Schreuders, among others.
Jim Dine
The Colorful Venus
1985
Gift of ASTRA, USA, Inc
From the Permanent Collection of VCUarts Anderson Gallery
From the Seat of Authority
From the Seat of Authority explores how contextualization, or framing, of art and artifacts within a museum setting precipitates the construction of meaning. On view are juxtapositions of works from the Gallery’s permanent collection by various artists, including Gertrude Morgan, Andy Warhol, Hiroshige, Bill Haney and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as artifacts from China, Nepal, Guatemala and Zaire. Curatorial interpretation and presentation reconfigure the meaning and reception of art works displayed apart from the contexts of their conception, original function or cultural significance. Through a lens tightly focused on the subjectivity inherent in this process, "truths" told from the curators’ seat of authority may be seen as all but absolute.