Laurie Olin, Drawing to See: The Italian Sketchbooks
Created over decades spent living and travelling in Italy, Laurie Olin, Drawing to See: The Italian Sketchbooks offers a rare glimpse of the singular process of one of today's most renowned landscape architects. Culled from sketchbooks filled between 1972 and 2023, these observations of gardens and architecture, sculptures and social life are as much a foray into the experience of Italy as they are examples of how a designer learns through the act of drawing.
Exhibition Opening Night
FRI APR 4 | 6:00-7:00PM
Free & open to the public. Please register.
REPLICA: Tom Judd
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." - Oscar Wilde
"In the Spring of 2023, I did something that I had been thinking about doing for many years – I began copying a Picasso. I did not want it to be Picasso-esque, but rather an exact copy that actually could pass as the real thing... This left me excited about entering into this kind of relationship with other artists. I found myself concentrating on painting in a way I haven't since art school. All the old questions were still there while navigating the infinite variety of choices to produce a particular result with paint – but in this case through the filter of another artist’s vision. Through this process of replication, I learned as much about myself as I did the chosen artists.” - Tom Judd
Replicated Artists: Paul Cezanne, Giorgio de Chirico, Thomas Eakins, Phillip Guston, Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, Robert Kulicke, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio Morandi, Pablo Piccaso, Horrace Pippin, Wayne Thiebaud
Originally from Salt Lake City, Tom Judd attended the Philadelphia College of Art where he studied with Rafael Ferrer, Bob Kulicke, and Larry Day. Judd first exhibited his art work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1979, where at 25 he was included in a survey show entitled Contemporary Drawing: Philadelphia curated by Ann Percy and Frank Goodyear. The museum purchased a work from that exhibit for their permanent collection. Judd has gone onto exhibit his work in commercial galleries and museums across the country. He is in major collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of Art and the Birmingham Museum of Art. Judd works in a variety of medium including painting, collage, photography and installation work. This includes major public art projects such as the Independence Hall subway station in Philadelphia.
Exhibition Opening Night
FRI JUL 18 | 6:00-7:00PM
Free & open to the public. Please register.
First Friday: Gallery Talks by the Artist
FRI SEP 5 | 5:00-7:00PM
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