LAURA OWENS WITH AN EXHIBITION OF NEW WORKS AT GARDNER MUSEUM

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presented the first solo museum exhibition of works by American artist Laura Owens, who is among a select group of artists being credited with the rebirth of contemporary painting. Organized by Pieranna Cavalchini, visiting curator of contemporary art at the Gardner Museum, the exhibition featured several new paintings and works on paper by Owens.
The exhibition was open to the public May 31 and ran through September 16, 2001.

IMAGES SPROUT AND GROW AT THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM

Last fall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presented a new series of works by British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who use grass as a photographic medium. Ackroyd and Harvey's "photographs" cast in grass are created through a photosynthetic print process. Instead of black and white, the images are shades of green and yellow. Their exhibition, entitled Presence and organized by Gardner Museum Contemporary Curator Pieranna Cavalchini, was part of an artist-in-residence program that enables artists to study the Gardner's preeminent collection and visitors to experience the work of emerging talent and ideas. Presence was on view October 31, 2001 - January 1, 2002.

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