Democracy is in!

This special preview section has been designed for The New Art Event, which will take place on Friday, March 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. here at the Ulrich Museum of Art. This event is free and open to the public Reservations are greatly appreciated (call 978-3664 to make your reservation) so that we can prepare your ballot in advance. This is your opportunity to cast a vote and to help decide which work(s) will be added to our collection!

Information on each piece is listed below. Our curator, Elizabeth Dunbar, has also added her own "Curator's Comments" to each work as a method of explaining why a particular work would be a good addition to our collection.

Here are the candidates:

91 1/4 x 9 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches

Curator's Comments: These fraternal twins had their first museum show in 2001 at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. If line 22 is selected for purchase, it would be the first Dumbacher work to enter a museum collection.

 

 

Salomón Huerta

Untitled House, 2002

oil on canvas

16 x 48 inches

Curator's Comments: The bright, candy-coated shades of yellow, aqua and blue in this painting were inspired by the 2002 Victoria's Secret catalogue. Offering no details as to resident or region, this modest generic house could be located almost anywhere--maybe even in Wichita!

Nic Nicosia (part of a set of three)

Untitled (Sam) from the Life As We Know It series, 1986

silver dye bleach photograph

48 x 67 inches

Curator's Comments: These works by Nicosia are a set of three. Sometimes taking more than a month to complete, the large-scale photographs were created on elaborate stage sets that Nicosia built himself. The artist's friends, family and acquaintances were enlisted to overact slapstick scenes of chaos and melodrama inspired by (but always a bit weirder than) everyday life.

  

 

Nic Nicosia (part of a set of three)

Near (modern) Disaster #2, 1983

silver dye bleach photograph

40 x 50 inches

 

 

 

 

 

Nic Nicosia (part of a set of three)

Middletown, 1997

digital video

13:18 minutes

Curator's Comments: This video's title is a play on the name of the street that Nicosia lives on in North Dallas, and the street itself is the star of the show. Shot in a single take from Nicosia's car, the film combines the innocence of a home movie with a surreal drama as seemingly ordinary events assume weird proportions: a boy on a bicycle drags an inflatable plastic sex doll, two tall cowboys in suits walk down the street carrying briefcases, a man mows his lawn in office clothes, etc.

 

 

 Joseph Stashkevetch

The Big Sweep, 2000

charcoal, conte crayon, and watercolor on paper

61 x 45 inches

Curator's Comments: Based on snapshots taken from inside a moving car, Stashkevetch's large-format, tonal drawings of traffic portray a story of questionable progress--as told by machines.

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