Join us this Friday, January 12, from 5 - 7pm, for the Opening Reception of the 2024 season opener, In the Realm of the Spirit: Work by Maude I. Kerns exhibit, featuring non-objective artwork by Maude Kerns. All Art Center exhibit receptions are free and open to the public.
The exhibit includes work from Maude Kerns Art Center's collection as well as private collections, and artwork that has never been exhibited before on loan from the Lane County History Museum archives.
A highlight of the show is the correspondence between Kerns and Rolph Scarlett, a well-known non-objective New York painter, who along with Kerns, exhibited at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, the forerunner of the Guggenheim Museum. In collaboration with the Art Center, and to coincide with the opening of “In the Realm of the Spirit,” the Lane County History Museum displays Maude Kerns work from its extensive archival collection in “Blue Vesper: Maude Irvine Kerns.”
In conjunction with “In the Realm of the Spirit,” the Art Center will be featuring a documentary which includes details about the founding of the Guggenheim Museum, titled Betrayal: The Life and Art of Rudolf Bauer. Bauer, who was an influential protégé of Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, was introduced to Maude Kerns’s work through Rolph Scarlett. The documentary will be shown on Saturday, February 3, from 1 – 2 pm.
