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Our March “First Thursday” evening hours return! On March 1, all museum galleries will be open until 8pm.
For this evening, we welcome a performance by the Oberlin College student string quartet Chartreuse, who will be performing the Minimalist composition “Different Trains,” written by Steve Reich in 1988. This performance will be introduced by Sarah Hamill, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, who will situate it in the context of minimalist sculptures on view in the Ellen Johnson Gallery. The performance will begin at 6pm, and will last around 25 minutes.
Oberlin College student docents will also be on hand throughout the evening to answer questions and show visitors around the museum. Also available will be the AMAM’s audio tour and Family Self-Guides. Hope to see you Thursday!
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Sol LeWitt (American, 1928 - 2007)
49 Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes, 1967-71
Enamel on steel
Fund for Contemporary Art, 1972
AMAM 1972.77
Me and Sol LeWitt’s Untitled of 1970.
In my room.
Kind of freaking out.
Lorna Simpson on my dresser. Sol Lewitt & Larsen Husby on my bed.
(via my blog, fontaine capel)
Did you rent art this year? Take a photo of it in your living space and we’ll reblog it!
When the Ellen Johnson Gallery reopens next week for the first time in over two years, one of the many works on view will be our Sol LeWitt ‘scribble drawing.’ “Wall Drawing #1222” was created by the artist specifically for the EJ gallery. It measures 23 by 18 feet and was executed entirely in pencil. It was first shown in the 2007 exhibition ‘Sol LeWitt at the AMAM,’ along with works on loan from the LeWitt Collection.
To make this drawing, eleven people worked the equivalent of 101 draftsman days to cover the wall’s 396 square feet with graphite. A total of 330 six-inch leads and twenty-eight woodless graphite pencil sticks were used.
It was first drawn by Takeshi Arita and Sachiko Cho from LeWitt’s studio, and Oberlin College students Alisa Doga, Julia Feldman, Harry Gassel, Catherine Janis, Grace Kiniako, Sara Krugman, Hanna Siesel, Jeremy Wiles-Young, and museum staff member Michael Reynolds.
You can come out to see the ‘scribble drawing’ during our next ‘First Thursday’ evening hours - we’ll be open Thursday, October 6 until 8pm!
Did you know that there’s art in the Allen created by the hands of Obies? Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #1222” was executed by 11 students and staff members on the wall of the (soon to be reopened) Ellen Johnson Contemporary Art Gallery.
In advance of next week’s reopening of the Ellen Johnson Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, we present this archival shot from the 1980s.
Can you name all of the works in this quite amazing gallery photo? (Click on each word in the question for some answers…)
Remember our Sol LeWitt “scribble” wall drawing? During the AMAM renovation project, it was crated in place to protect it temporarily. Yesterday, for the first time in almost two years, the scribble drawing was uncovered. Another big step towards the September 6 reopening of the museum!
