Just installed a new painting on loan - in the Acheson Gallery
In between our special exhibitions we are always working on something, often making changes in our permanent collection galleries. Our smaller O’Keeffe painting White Abstraction has traveled up to the Whitney Museum and will be included in an exhibition, and we reinstalled Cliff Dwellers’ Country by John Sloan in it’s place. We also installed a new Gene Davis painting that recently came in on loan, Black Watch is replacing the William Quinn painting White Serpentine, which was hanging next to our Canin painting
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Although I usually don’t like modern art, the two paintings above captivated me. Beyond belief though was an object of art in the same room that looked like the inside of a machine and was supposedly based on video as a medium. I can’t remember the name of the artist…I believe his first name might have been Peter. Can you give a comment and/or picture of that piece of art? I looked in the gift shop and couldn’t find anything. We don’t live in St. Pete and I’ve been trying to describe it to my husband with little success. I think others would also find it amazing.
M. Butler, I think the piece you are talking about is the Peter Sarkisian, Extruded Video Engine II. And it is, indeed, pretty darn cool.
M. Butler, I have a short video clip of the Sarkisian piece on the Museum Facebook page. Here is a link to that video > http://bit.ly/Crks8