The Kreeger Museum’s 30th anniversary exhibition is a rich reading of its collection with 14 contemporary artists who work in the D.C. area.
My impression of the Kreeger Museum is forever colored by a photograph of a Sam Gilliam painting floating in the museum’s backyard pool.
At a glance, a mixed-media installation by Richmond-based artist Monsieur Zohore is an easy riff on a painting in the Kreeger collection. Zohore’s “Stervende Overwinning ” quotes heavily from Piet Mondrian, the hard-edged painter of jazz and geometry. “Dying Victory” directly references these abstractions as well as Mondrian’s early-career natural paintings, such as “Dying Sunflower” , a watercolor that hangs at the Kreeger.
In the same library as Zohore’s faux flowers is a video installation by Baltimore artist Kristin Putchinski. “Reaping & Sowing” captures the artist and musician, seen from overhead, as she hunches down inside a piano, tearing the thing apart. It’s a caustically funny piece for a museum with its own baby grand and jazz program.
“Trade Winds/Vientos Alisios” , a fabric installation by Zinny hanging along a window to an interior courtyard, blends natural light with pigment in sheer sculptural form. “In Silence” , a separate window installation by Baltimore artist Soledad Salamé, activates the interior the same way, with insects encased in resin.
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