Friday, August 14, 2009

Meander the path of modernism

Center’s new show opens Friday

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By EXPRESS STAFF

“A Kind of Blue,” (24” x 24”, 2002) by Mary Henry is on display as part of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts’ new exhibition, “Modern Parallels: Henry and Helen Lundeberg.” Art courtesy Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle.

Fans of modern art have a real treat in store for them this month. The Sun Valley Center for the Arts presents a new show, "Modern Parallels: Mary Henry and Helen Lundeberg." The exhibit, which features over 40 paintings, drawings and lithographs by the two women, opens today, Aug. 14 and runs through Oct. 2 at The Center in Ketchum.

"The show is kind of a survey of these two women's careers," said Courtney Gilbert, The Center's curator of visual art. "One of the interesting things about it is that it spans the 1930s to 2009, and really covers aspects of the history of modernism in the United States as a whole."

Gilbert said the two women apparently never knew each other, but they were born only five years apart, were both raised in California, both worked for the Works Progress Administration and both devoted major portions of their careers to geometric abstraction.

"I find it fascinating that in the arcs of their career we can track so many of the last century's major art movements, from realism and surrealism to abstract expressionism, Op Art and constructivism," she said.

Free exhibition tours are held the first Tuesday of every month at 2 p.m. (Sept. 8). There will also be a special evening tour on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 5.30 p.m.

To complement the show, The Center will present two lectures on women artists and modernism in the United States on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. Kristin Poole, The Center's artistic director, will talk about the history of women artists in 20th century America. Gilbert will trace the history of geometric abstraction from Russian constructivism in the 1920s to Op Art in the 1960s.

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The Center is located at 191 Fifth St. E. in Ketchum. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays in August. For more information call 726-9492.