September 9, 2022
Two art exhibitions--Rauschenberg's Surface Series and Bronze--will open at The Trout Gallery on Sept. 9, 4-7 p.m., concurrent with the popular fall Pizza on the Plaza event.
Robert Rauschenberg, Surface Series from Currents, screen prints. Gift of Lawrence and Carol Zicklin, 1982.13.1.1–18 (detail).
Come see the art and enjoy some pizza, snacks and conversation!
About Rauschenberg's Surface Series
This exhibition presents Surface Series (1970), an important group of eighteen screen prints by Robert Rauschenberg. He made the prints at the threshold of a new decade to “shake people awake,” to open their conscience to the world around them. For each of the prints in the series, Rauschenberg overlaid images and headlines drawn from contemporary newspapers—some shown as negatives, others as positives, all of them black and white. Many of them display large moiré dot patterns, which are usually unwanted products of commercial printing processes. In this context, however, they take on an artistic quality, much like the half-tone dots used in the Pop-inspired works of Roy Lichtenstein. Each of the prints measure forty by forty inches.
Initially, Rauschenberg envisioned the Surface Series prints as part of a larger project, one that included a second set of twenty-five prints—known as Features—which were to be hand-sewn together to make a colossal paper quilt that was to hang at Dayton's Gallery 12 (Minneapolis, Minn.). The quilted print project was not realized; however, the prints were published as separate editions.
About Bronze: Highlights From the Permanent Collection
St. John the Baptist Preaching (detail) by Auguste Rodin.
Metalworkers have used bronze to create functional and decorative objects since the second millennium B.C.E. This exhibition highlights examples of figural bronze sculpture from The Trout Gallery permanent collection, including objects that span four continents and eleven centuries.
Further information
- Location: The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
- Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Cost: Free