Brunnier showcases art and culture
August 28, 1997
Brunnier Art Museum, located in the Scheman Building, will host a variety of exhibits this fall.
The exhibits, which come from Iowa, Phildelphia and Glasgow, are full of culture.
“In a Man’s Brain: Images of Women” will open Sept. 6 and run through Jan. 4. There will be 86 pieces from The Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, on display. This exhibit will feature pieces by 69 artists including Picasso, Matisse, Degas and many other well-known artists.
“Images of Women” expresses male artists’ views of women from the 1400s to 1990. It was designed to stimulate conversations between men and women about how their relationships have survived through the years.
Marilyn Vaughan, ISU communications specialist, said this exhibit was the result of curator Mary Atherly’s visit to Scotland in 1994.
Atherly spent three months in Scotland through an exchange program at ISU.
While there, she studied thousands of different paintings, and came back with 86 works.
None of these pieces have ever left Scotland.
To compliment the exhibit, many educational events will also be offered to students.
Christopher Allan, retired director of the Hunterian, and Amy Worthen, a Des Moines art historian and contemporary printmaker, will give lectures. They will be in Ames for a month to speak to both students and the public about the exhibit.
Already at the museum is Ray King’s “Adventures in Light and Color: Projects in Light and Color.” King specializes in glass sculpting.
Some pieces on display are 3-D models, digitized prints and a stainless screen. Fawn describes the screen as large and striking. Glass squares suspended by cables will also be on display.
“In the suspended pieces the reflecting colors change with the season and the time of day. It is definitely worth seeing,” Vaughan said. “King is technical but accessible. I am really impressed by him.”
King’s works can be seen in the Student Health Center and the Jacobson Athletic Building as well.
Complimenting King’s exhibit is “Pressed in Glass: Iowa Pressed Glass,” which documents the rise and fall of the glass industry in Keota and Iowa City. There will be 200 pieces shown in this exhibit.
Both exhibits will run through Jan. 4.
“Marilyn Annin: Narrative Garments” will come to Scheman on Sept. 9.
This exhibit runs as a companion to “In a Man’s Brain.”