Exhibitions

INSIDE THE BOX: CONSTRUCTIONS AND ASSEMBLAGES JOIN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

Opens July 6, 2010

May Wilson left Baltimore for New York in the mid-1960s to further her career as a full-time artist. Wilson’s work deftly combines objects of little apparent value to create works that question accepted aesthetics and the existing hierarchy of artistic materials. Due to such conceptual advancements, she is referred to as the Grandma Moses of the avant garde.

Ernie Cox, armed with a BFA from the College of William and Mary and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, served as a professor of sculpture in the art department at the University of South Florida for more than three decades. Like Wilson, Cox combines apparently disparate objects to create personal works possessing a dark undertone. And unlike Wilson, Cox injects an element of painstaking craftsmanship into his work. The stable, near symmetrical effect creates a frozen enigmatic quality.

James von Minor has formal, artistic training as well as including a BFA from Colorado State University and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. During his career, he has held adjunct faculty positions in art departments throughout the state including Towson State University. Unlike Cox and Wilson, von Minor does not straddle the line between found objects and sculpture. Rather he blurs the line between painting and sculpture. His works have a shallow depth and singular viewpoint allowing his work to be read like a painting. In addition, von Minor is an accomplished printer who works in woodcut, chine colle, collography and other methods.

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