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'Night Contains Multitudes' on view at Benton Museum of Art |
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Robert Von Sternberg. Strawberry, Chinle, Arizona, 2009, Printed 2013. Digital photograph on paper, 11 x 16 9/16 in. Gift of the artist.
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CLAREMONT, CA.- The nightvelvety, fraught, imperceptible, inevitablehas been explored by artists across all times and places. This exhibition charts this vast territory of the night through more than 50 works by artists including Ansel Adams, Leonard Freed, Ed Ruscha, June Wayne, Carrie Mae Weems, and James McNeill Whistler.
Night Contains Multitudes takes a conversational and multivalent approach to artists engagement with the night. For artists, night can be a natural phenomenon as well as a metaphor. It can be an aesthetic challenge that pushes an artists ability to represent darkness and invisibility or a historical marker under threat after the invention of electricity. It is a time of inspiration and creativity as well as fear and troubled reflection. Night can be quiet and contemplative; it can be the pulse of a restless city after dark.
All these interpretationsand moreare represented in this broad exhibition. Nineteenth-century prints such as Adolphe Appians Un Soir, Bords du Rhône à Rix and Charles-François Daubignys Claire de Lune à Valmondois depict people outside in a nightscape as emblematic of the Romantic attraction to dusk and moonlight. Landscape photographs like Ansel Adamss Moonrise from Glacier Point document nightfall as a natural phenomenon tinged with the supernatural. The invention and widespread use of electricity changed the character of the night as darkness gave way to artificial lighting, neon signage, and the concept of night life: photographs from Paul J. Woolf, Robert von Sternberg, and Leonard Freed depict evening attire, drag performers, smoke-filled jazz clubs, and festivals. Works by Carrie Mae Weems and Charles Gaines, among others, remind us that different people have different relationships to the night; people of all genders, racial backgrounds, and class status navigate the darker hours differently, some with fear and uncertainty, some with energy and abandon. And abstract imagesMatsumi Kanemitsus Night Flier, Isa Carrillos Rising Constellation, and June Waynes Night Winddemonstrate how the night becomes an ambiguous and multivalent symbol, shaped by an altered visual perception.
The exhibition breaks down the geographic boundaries and art historical periods to set a variety of worksprints, paintings, and photographs, primarily from the Bentons collectioninto a wide-ranging conversation about artists engagement with the world underneath the night sky. Arranged in the gallery from the hours after sunset through the softest minutes just before dawn, these works are emblems and interpretations of our rich and multifaceted relationship to those hours low in light but rich in creativity.
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