3col Isozaki

Arata Isozaki, “The New Brooklyn Museum:  South Elevation,” silkscreen, 1988.

FOR 7/25

EXHIBIT OF RECENT GIFTS AT MIT DEAN’S GALLERY w/1 cut

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Dean’s Gallery presents “Recent Gifts to the Student Loan Art Collection,” on view through November 25.

The 17 works in this exhibition are the List Center’s most recent acquisitions and include one painting and a variety of prints and photographs.

Donated by Ruth Bowman, an Advisory Committee member of the List Visual Arts Center, an untitled photograph by Cindy Sherman features an early self-portrait of the young artist in dramatized makeup and dress.

Reprinted in 2004 from the 1975 original, this image predates her well-known Untitled Film Still series created between 1977 and 1980, in which she explored the clichés of female roles in popular culture.

“Vibration Conscilience,” a serigraph by artists Audra Skuodas, is one of three recent donations from Virginia-based collectors Heather and Tony Podesta. This acquisition, like much of Skuodas’ work, utilizes pattern and color to investigate harmony, tension and energy.

Two of the works, donated by the Yvon Lambert Gallery of New York and Paris, are from multidisciplinary artists who have exhibited at the List Visual Arts Center. Most recently, a survey of David Claerbout’s work was shown February 8–April 6. His photograph in this exhibition, “Oslo Meeuw” from 2003–07, is an image of the backs of two figurative sculptures, accompanied by a solitary seagull.

The second artist, Carlos Amorales, was included in the “Tele-journeys” exhibition in 2002. His large serigraph, “Broken Animal” from 2006, features red, striped ribbon-like forms interlacing with small, black birds on a deep purple background.

The gallery is at 20 Ames Street. For more information, http://web.mit.edu/lvac or 617-253-4400.