Wall Drawing #793A: Irregular wavy color bands, India ink and color ink wash. First drawn by Maria Elena Alvarez-Calderón, Arminda Bugarin, Rodolfo Casado Orozco, Sachiko Cho, Claudio de Casas, Gonzalo de las Casas, Christhiam Fiorentino Vásquez, Carmen García Suarez, Jesús Martínez, Aurora Ortega de Torre, Pia Rodríguez Frade, Pablo San Juan, Jo Watanabe. First installation: […]
September 9, 2018–January 6, 2019 Fuller Gallery In the Soviet Union, photojournalists were told to create images that showed their country’s progress toward a bright future. This exhibition examines the role of truth and censorship in the work of two important Soviet photojournalists, Dmitri Baltermants and Mark Markov-Grinberg. Baltermants (1912-1990) spent forty-five years on […]
Angel Suarez-Rosado (American, born Puerto Rico, 1957), Cosmograms, 1995–present, oil on canvas or board, 16 x 12” each. September 9 through December 16, 2018 Rodale Gallery Puerto Rican-born, Easton-based artist Angel Suarez-Rosado will create a site-specific installation at the Allentown Art Museum. Suarez-Rosado transforms ordinary objects, imbuing them with power, in a practice […]
August 25 – December 9, 2018 Fowler Gallery Molas are colorful reverse-appliqué panels made by the Guna, an indigenous people who live in Panama. Since the 1600s, the Guna have maintained trade and diplomatic relations with Western countries. Guna women began using foreign trade cloth to create bold mola panels for their blouses around […]
May 6, 2018–May 19, 2019 Butz Gallery For the first time in more than 20 years, experience The Room Chapel by pioneering sculptor of light Stephen Antonakos. Originally created in 1996, this architectural installation featuring the artist’s Neon Panels will be specially recreated for the Allentown Art Museum. This work represents not only the realization of […]
Through July 28, 2019 Decorative Arts Corridor The Japanese have printed fabric for centuries using katagami, hand carved mulberry paper stencils. These stencils’ intricate designs and bold style amazed the European and American artists who encountered katagami at the turn of the century. Many became collectors and drew inspiration from these stencils—including architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whose […]
Through June 2, 2019 Payne Hurd Gallery As Hinduism developed in India, it enveloped a vast range of local deities into its pantheon; many new deities also emerged over time. Many Hindus regarded these deities, totaling some 330 million by some believers’ count, as manifestations of one supreme, universal spirit, known as Brahman. Similar […]
José Campeche (Puerto Rican, 1751–1809), Our Lady of Mount Carmel (detail), 1807, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Coleccíón Patricia Phelps de Cisneros August 25 through December 9, 2018 Scheller Gallery Power and Piety presents exquisite paintings, sculpture, silver pieces, furniture and decorative devotional objects made in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of the […]
Wed, 01/06/2016 – Sun, 01/14/2019 Museum Vestibule The Museum commissioned Dominican-born, Allentown-based artist Rigo Peralta to create the first-ever mural in the vestibule at the entrance to the Museum. Incorporating imagery from Taino and Mayan architecture and building on the tradition of heroic figures in mural painting, Peralta’s work addresses both personal and regional identity and history. […]
