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Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers
Date created 03/13/2024–06/16/2024
03/16/2024–06/13/2024, Rose Museum, Brandeis University
For his first solo exhibition in New England, Indigenous Mexican artist Noé Martínez (b. 1986 Michoacán, Mexico) addresses his family’s Huastecan heritage within the context of Mexico’s repressive colonial histories, in order to resurrect, mourn, and memorialize his indigenous culture. Supported by ethnographic practices and archival research, Martínez explores interconnected strata of art, body, history, and living memory.
Martínez attempts to locate traces of his ancestors’ lives within his own body, transforming art into both ritual and memorial. The Body Remembers is a multi-media installation consisting of life-size, collaged drawings of bodies that wrap the gallery's walls, embracing a circle of clay figurative vessels fashioned in the style of pre-Hispanic art. The exhibition also includes a large-scale video projection of a ceremonial dance. Utilizing body, sound, and movement, Martínez invokes his Huastecan ancestors, their histories, and traumas. The Body Remembers serves as an act of shamanistic healing for past and present wounds.
Noé Martinez: The Body Remembers is curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, with Guest Curator Circe Henestrosa, Head of the School of Fashion, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.
This exhibition is supported by Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award Fund, with additional funding from the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston and PATRON.
Special thanks to media partners El Planeta and WBUR.
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Date created 11/16/2023–02/11/2024
11/16/2023–02/11/2024, Rose Museum, Brandeis University
Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love is a major solo exhibition of work by Pakistani-born artist Salman Toor (b. 1983). Conceived as an enhancement of a traveling exhibition of recent paintings (2020-2022), curated by Dr. Asma Naeem of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Rose presentation will contextualize Toor’s art by installing it in dialogue with relevant pieces from the museum’s stellar permanent collection. The show will also feature Toor’s drawings and notebooks, shedding light on his creative process.
Living in his native Lahore, Toor became deeply knowledgeable about the works of modern Pakistani and Indian painters. Parallel to this, he studied old European masters, avidly copying works by Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and others. Painting distinct hybrid compositions using his brilliant textural brushstrokes and bold ‘Emerald Green’ palette, Toor explores his experiences as a Queer diasporic South Asian man, creating imaginative new worlds for the 21st century.
Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love is organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and curated by Dr. Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Rose Art Museum presentation is organized by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, with contributions by Dorian Keeffe, Collections Care and Exhibition Production Assistant.
Major support for this exhibition is provided by the Further Forward Foundation in memory of Jennifer Combs, with additional support from Adam Green, Beth Marcus, Lance Renner, and the Green Family Art Foundation.
Media Partner: WBUR
Related Events
NOV. 16 | Opening Reception
DEC. 03 | Making Time: Figure Drawing
DEC. 07 | Rose After Hours with Boudoir
DEC. 14 | Shadow Park: Queer Counterpublics in the Art of Salman Toor
JAN. 18 | Film Screening: JOYLAND
JAN. 24 | Asma Naeem: Salman Toor's Brown Boys
FEB. 01 | In Conversation: Salman Toor
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Date created 03/01/2023–10/22/2023
08/03/2023–10/22/2023, Rose Museum, Brandeis University
Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain, the artist’s first significant museum survey, presents a comprehensive display of Khosravi’s meteoric trajectory from her student days, when she “doodled” on the pages of her Iranian passport, through her bold experimentations with multipaneled reliefs, to her monumental sculptures produced for this exhibition.
Known for weaving Persian motifs with surreal iconography, Khosravi deftly blends East and West, past and present, religious and secular, reality and fantasy, aligning the artist’s deeply-felt internal schisms and sense of paradox with the political strife of the present moment. According to the artist, “contradiction" is one word that sums up her work.
The artist’s life experiences—as a young woman in Iran, as an Iranian immigrant in the United States and, most recently, as an Iranian exile inspired by the Zan. Zendegi. Azadi. (“Woman, Life, Freedom”) protests—shape her artistic development. From reflections on misogynistic repression to creative articulations of self-empowerment, Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain follows the arc of a prolific artist and her persistent quest for freedom.
Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain is curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
This exhibition is generously funded by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and the Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award Fund. Additional support is provided by the Artist’s Resource Trust, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, The Horseman Foundation, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, and Salman Al-Rashid—special thanks to Adam Green.
Media partner: WBUR
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SEP. 27 | Parallel Lives: Women of the Iranian Diaspora
OCT. 1 | Making Time: Creative Writing Workshop for Adults
OCT. 14 | Artist Talk: Arghavan Khosravi
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Exhibition catalog
Published 12/2022
Peter Sacks: Resistance is the first solo museum exhibition of works by the South African-born artist, Peter Sacks (b. 1950). The show presents over ninety never-before-seen portraits of individuals who have resisted political, racial, or cultural oppression over the past two centuries. The portraits’ subjects range from Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Nelson Mandela to Anna Akhmatova, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Each resistor’s face is embedded in a tactile composition of fabric, paint, personal items and texts, conveying a sense of their life, historical background, struggles, acts of resistance, and, sometimes, their death.
Peter Sacks: Resistance is curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
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Frida Kahlo: Beyond Appearances
Date created 09/2022–03/2023
Major exhibition of Frida Kahlo's art, personal effects, wardrobe, and medical apparatuses in Paris.
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Date created 08/03/2022–12/31/2022
08/25/2022–12/30/2022, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Peter Sacks: Resistance is the first solo museum exhibition of works by the South African-born artist, Peter Sacks (b. 1950). The show presents over ninety never-before-seen portraits of individuals who have resisted political, racial, or cultural oppression over the past two centuries. The portraits’ subjects range from Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Nelson Mandela to Anna Akhmatova, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Each resistor’s face is embedded in a tactile composition of fabric, paint, personal items and texts, conveying a sense of their life, historical background, struggles, acts of resistance, and, sometimes, their death.
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Displaced: Raida Adon's Strangeness
Date created 03/20/2022–07/20/2022
Displaced: Raida Adon’s Strangeness presents Raida Adon’s first solo exhibition in the United States and first museum show outside of Israel. Born into a multi-faith Palestinian family in the bi-national city of Acre, Israel, Raida Adon is an acclaimed multi-media artist, television, theater and film actress, and director.
Her 2018 video Strangeness, prominently featured in this exhibition, invokes experiences of displacement, as well as enduring journeys in search of Home. Interweaving a rich array of archetypal, historical, and biographical threads, Strangeness creates riveting audiovisual fabrics, which reflect human fragility and resilience, agony and hope. The work unveils harsh truths about our broken world through the prism of Adon’s unique, unbridled imagination.
Watch the trailer for Strangeness
Raida Adon, Strangeness, 2018. Digital video, 33:30 min., Trailer. Courtesy of the artist.
Displaced is curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, with significant contributions by Anna Kovacs, Deputy Director of Collections and Exhibitions.
This exhibition and Adon’s related live performance and residency are generously supported by Artis, by Jolie Schwab ’78 and David Hodes ’77, and by Brandeis University co-sponsors: the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, the Department of Fine Arts, and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Fund.
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"My Mechanical Sketchbook" - Barkley L. Hendricks & Photography
Date created 02/20/2022–07/20/2022
02/10/2022–07/24/2022, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
"My Mechanical Sketchbook" — Barkley L. Hendricks & Photography focuses on the significant and multifaceted role of the camera and the photographic image within Barkley L. Hendricks's artistic practice. The show presents Hendricks's photographs as autonomous artworks, models for oil paintings, and as "mechanical sketchbooks"—to cite the artist's own words—that helped Hendricks capture and recall sights and insights. The exhibition illuminates the deep connections between Hendricks's myriad forms of creative expression with photographs, Polaroids, paintings, and works on paper.
Exhibition catalog
"My Mechanical Sketchbook" - Barkley L. Hendricks & Photography
Published 2022
This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the Rose Art Museum exhibition, "My Mechanical Sketchbook" - Barkley L. Hendricks & Photography, curated by Gannit Ankori with Elyan J. Hill. This exhibition was the first to display Hendricks's never-before-seen photographs, alongside his iconic paintings.
Exhibition catalog
Published 2022
Frida Kahlo: au-delà des apparences, 09/15/2022–03/05/2023, Palais Galliera, Musée de la mode de la ville de Paris
En 1954, juste après sa mort, les biens de Frida Kahlo sont mis sous scellés dans la Casa Azul, à Mexico, la célèbre "maison bleue" où elle vécut toute sa vie. Un demi-siècle plus tard, ses vêtements, ses bijoux, cosmétiques et d'autres objets personnels ont été retrouvés dans des malles, des armoires, des tiroirs, dans la salle de bain et la cave de la maison. En présentant sa garde-robe et en la confrontant aux nobreuses photographies de l'artiste - mais aussi à ses célèbres autoportraits -, ce livre offre une perpective nouvelle sur la personnalité de Frida, dont le charisme et le syle unique continuenet de captiver.
Bibliographie p. 228-230. Index.