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Contact: Christine Nichols, Kresge Art Museum, nicho357@msu.edu
Published: May 20, 2009 E-mail Editor
Tablut, 2009, by Charles Pompilius. Kresge Art Museum, loan from artist, courtesy David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.
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The Michigan Masters Invitational exhibition brings together works by 30 artists deemed the most exciting and inventive of the thousands active in the state today.
The exhibition is on view at Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University now through July 31, 2009. The exhibition reception will take place from 5-7 p.m., May 20. There will be opportunities to meet many of the featured artists.
In its 50th year, Kresge Art Museum reprised the exhibition of Michigan artists that had been a feature of the museum’s schedule in the past. Contemporary art was shown in the museum’s inaugural year, 1959, and every year since. Artists for this exhibition were selected from recommendations by curators, gallerists, artists, critics and others knowledgeable about Michigan artists specific to their region.
In addition to the art on view in the museum, three sculptures on MSU’s south campus by Russell Thayer, Charles McGee, and Richard Hunt are part of the show including a soaring bronze sculpture by Hunt who was recently honored with the International Sculpture Center’s lifetime achievement award.
A 68-page color catalogue with information on each artist will be available for purchase from the museum gift shop. Following the success of the museum’s first-ever cell phone tour during the 50th anniversary exhibition, this latest technology will be employed again for the Michigan Masters exhibition. Cell phone accessible recorded commentary on several pieces in the current collection is available by dialing a local access number (517-759-5018). The tour is also downloadable from the museum’s website, www.artmuseum.edu
The exhibition is funded in part by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Admission is free to Kresge Art Museum. Kresge Art Museum is located on the first floor of the Kresge Art Center at the intersection of Physics and Auditorium Roads, on the MSU campus. Museum hours through May 31 are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday; Thursday until 8 p.m., noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Museum hours June 1 through July 31 are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The museum is closed Mondays. The museum will be closed in August and reopen Sept. 8.
For additional information, call (517) 355-7631 or visit www.artmuseum.msu.edu.
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April Kingsley, art curator at MSU Kresge Art Museum, discusses the Michigan Masters Invitational exhibit on display at the museum. Kingsley was responsible for piecing together the exhibit featuring 30 well-known, established Michigan artists.
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