AS WAGGA prepares to welcome the 2016 International Millinery Forum from July 4 to 8, the gallery is delighted to present a forecast of the amazing skills and techniques of today’s milliners in the new exhibition Edge of Elegance.
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This delightful show features a selection of wearable and millinery headpieces created by members of the Riverina Millinery Association.
Their works include pieces constructed through traditional millinery techniques and materials, juxtaposed with items that are more experimental in both design and material.
Edge of Elegance ranges from direct representation and inspiration from Australian flora and fauna, to those that extend, experiment and innovate based on these themes – there’s a hat here for everyone!
Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection
DRAWN from the private collection of Sydney-based Lisa and Danny Goldberg, Stars + Stripes is a vibrant selection of new American art by some of America’s hottest young names, many of the works have been made within the last three years.
In 1967 the Museum of Modern Art, New York toured Two Decades of American Painting to Australia.
That ground breaking exhibition introduced Australian audiences to the work of a new generation of American artists including Andy Warhol, 39, Jasper Johns, 37, and Robert Rauschenberg, 42.
Forty-seven years later, Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection will introduce a new generation of equally important American artists to Australian audiences.
Stars + Stripes brings together 49 works across the mediums of painting, drawing, photography and sculpture and highlights the cutting edge practices of a generation of American artists that explore the creative and conceptual possibilities these mediums hold.
Based predominately in New York and Los Angeles, artists such as Tavares Strachan, Haim Steinbach, Richard Aldrich, Sterling Ruby, Davina Semo, Elad Lassry, Cory Arcangel, Jeff Elrod, Seth Price and Walead Beshty are carving out international careers and have been highly influential among art students and the next generation of emerging artists in the US and Europe.
Curated by Richard Perram OAM, Director of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, the exhibition captures a fascinating snapshot of recent contemporary art from North America and provides a unique opportunity to present works by artists not easily accessible to Australian audiences.
Stars + Stripes is on display at Wagga Art Gallery until next Sunday, July 3.