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Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty
September 7, 2019 - April 5, 2020
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As Fuller marks its fifty-year anniversary in 2019, we turn to gold to commemorate this milestone with Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty in its Stone and Barstow galleries. This invitational project will explore the storied traditions, contemporary interpretations, skillful applications, and conceptual rigor of gold as an artistic material, while investigating the multitude of cultural, material, and sociopolitical associations. For the 57 selected artists, gold remains central to their work as they delve far deeper than embellishment or decorative effect. This landmark exhibition celebrates the museum’s rich past as we plan for our brilliant future—and shines a light on all things golden.
The exhibition is co-curated by Fuller Craft Museum Chief Curator of Exhibitions and Collections Beth McLaughlin and Suzanne Ramljak, an art historian, writer, curator, and former editor of Metalsmith magazine. Among the exhibition themes to be explored are avarice, vanity, consumption, environmental consequences, power, divinity, cultural and social measures, alchemy, repair/kintsugi, artifice, transformation, and the body. Exhibited works will include craft media as well as fine art mediums to fully reflect Fuller Craft’s dual histories as both a fine art institution and a craft museum.
The remarkable artwork from this exhibition will be captured in an exhibition catalogue with essays from the co-curators and Stuart Kestenbaum, Poet Laureate of Maine and Former Director, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
Related links:
1969 Celebration – Fuller Craft Museum’s 50th Anniversary Gala
Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty Press Release
Exhibiting Artists:
Boris Bally
Timothy Berg & Rebekah Myers
David Bielander
Jana Brevick
Kathy Buszkiewicz
Kat Cole
Andy Cooperman
Sophie Coryndon
Claire Curneen
Olga de Amaral
Bouke de Vries
Peter Diepenbrock
Georg Dobler
Karl Fritsch
Susie Ganch
Luis Gispert
Caroline Gore
Lisa Gralnick
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Chris Gustin
John Hatleberg
Tom Herman/Seven Fingers
Takefumi Hori
Mary Lee Hu
John Iversen
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Dan Jocz
Lauren Kalman
Susan Kingsley
Lisa Kirk
Esther Knobel
Otto Künzli
Hew Locke
Nancy Lorenz
Anina Major
Märta Mattsson
Esperanza Mayobre
Barbara Nanning
Rashaad Newsome
Ted Noten
Cornelia Parker
Rolando Peña
Mark A. Reigelman II
Gerd Rothmann
Bernhard Schobinger
Paul Scott
Anthony Sonnenberg
Roy Superior
Frank Tjepkema
Jennifer Trask
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Adam Whitney
Grethe Wittrock
Crafting Dissent 2020 is funded in part by the following cultural councils: Abington, Berkley, Braintree, Bridgewater, Brockton, Canton, Mansfield, Middleborough, Norton, Stoughton, and Whitman. We are grateful for their support.
Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty is funded by The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation, Caroline R. Graboys Fund, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks Exhibition Fund, Gretchen Keyworth Exhibition Fund, and the Joan Pearson Watkins Estate.
Media Sponsor: Artscope Magazine
