Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller

August 14, 2010 - October 17, 2010

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost ninety years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured.

The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Image: Herman Miller 2000 Marshmallow Sofa, Herman Miller for the Home/Nelson Office

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Designed to Scale

August 14, 2010 - October 24, 2010

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduced The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Designed to Scale, the third exhibition in a series of four, will focus on small-scale contemporary design works. Designers are encouraged to submit in the following areas: product design, fashion and accessory design, textile design, interaction design, and graphic design.

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On My Own Time

October 15, 2010 - November 14, 2010

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in collaboration with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavours by those who are not full-time artists.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View

November 13, 2010 - January 16, 2011

One of America’s pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

Olitski began making prints in the mid-1950s. In these early works, he created series of related compositions by repeatedly adjusting his small intaglio plates. These rarely-exhibited chiaroscuro self-portraits and abstractions are virtually all unique impressions. By the 1960s and early 1970s, fields of nuanced color outweigh drawn elements in Olitski’s lithographs and silkscreens, reflecting the tonal discoveries of his Color Field paintings. Expressive gestures reassert themselves in the sensuous, loopy shapes and wavy boundaries of his silkscreens from the 1980s. In the 1990s, Olitski began working with monotypes. He would passionately embrace this medium in his final years, completing his last print two weeks before his death. An Inside View includes several of these joyous celebrations of life that also serve as meditations on mortality.

An Inside View includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist’s career of more than five decades. The exhibition was organized by Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont in collaboration with Knoedler and Company, New York, NY.

This exhibition is made possible in part by M&T Bank

Haudenosaunee: Elements

November 13, 2010 - January 16, 2011

In 2010, the Everson introduced The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series as a platform to showcase the talented artists living and working in the Central New York region and beyond. Haudenosaunee: Elements is a special exhibition of new work by 12 contemporary Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) artists ranging from those with well established careers such as Peter B. Jones, Tom Huff, Ronni-Leigh and Stonehorse Goeman, and Tammy Tarbell, to a few new and notable talents. The work includes a broad range of media, styles and themes, both traditional and contemporary.

In 2009, the Marshall M. Reisman Foundation donated two works to the Everson Museum by artist Tom Huff, including a stone sculpture entitled Shawl Dancer, ca. 1985. In his current work, Tom Huff, a scultpor and installation artist addresses social, political and cultural issues in contemporary Native American life. Huff will be creating new work for the exhibition.