Meet the artists behind the Brandywine River Museum of Art's new exhibitions during two lecture events
Chadds Ford, PA, October 30, 2017 — Explore and discover the artistic insights behind the Brandywine River Museum of Art’s new exhibitions Dylan Gauthier: highwatermarks, on November 1, and Ana Vizcarra Rankin: time/scale, on November 5, during special discussions with the artists.
On November 1, Dylan Gauthier will chart his year-long journey throughout the Brandywine watershed and his culminating exhibition, highwatermarks—a sixty-foot long, floor-to-ceiling immersive video and audio installation that presents a panorama on the course of Brandywine River and its surrounding communities. As the Brandywine River Museum of Art’s first artist-in-residence, Gauthier will share insights about his research and documentation of the river, as well as his work with Brandywine Conservancy staff throughout the course of his residency. He will also reflect on the role and power of art to shift societal perceptions of ecological issues. Dylan Gauthier’s Artist Talk will begin at 6 p.m., with a small reception following the lecture. Ticket Dylan Gauthier Artist Talks are free for members and $10 for non-members; Register online at brandywine.org/museum/events. Dylan Gauthier: highwatermarks is on view now through January 7, 2018.
Ana Vizcarra Rankin: time/scale is the Museum’s first “pop-up” exhibition. Presented by Philadelphia Contemporary and hosted by the Brandywine River Museum of Art, time/scale is the first solo museum exhibition of new and recent works by Uruguayan-American artist Ana Vizcarra Rankin. On November 5, the closing day of the exhibition, Ana Vizcarra Rankin will join Patricia Guardiola, Assistant Head of the historic Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania, for a dialogue exploring the artist’s work. Surrounded by Vizcarra Rankin’s large-scale paintings and hand-crafted collages of world maps and astronomical constellations, the artist and Guardiola will discuss Vizcarra Rankin’s artistic practice in the context of historic map interpretation, art history, globalization and environmentalism. The program will be held in the Museum’s second floor gallery at 3 p.m., and is free to the public.
In addition to the “Artist in Dialogue” with Ana Vizcarra Rankin on November 5, the Brandywine River Museum of Art will offer free all-day admission in tandem with its “First Sundays for Families: Pirate Adventure Day” program. Families are invited to create pirate-themed crafts, hunt for art treasures in the Museum, meet the Pirates of Fortune’s Folly, and experience “Storytime Peter Pan” presented by Hedgerow Theatre.
Dylan Gauthier (b. 1979) is the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art's inaugural artist in residence. Gauthier is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, and writer whose work addresses contemporary notions of landscape, ecology, architecture, and social change. He is a founder of the boat-building artist collective Mare Liberum and of the Sunview Luncheonette, a co-op for art, politics, and community in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His individual projects and collaborations have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Parrish Art Museum, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, the 2016 Biennial de Paris in Beirut Lebanon, the Center for Architecture, EFA Project Space, and the International Studio and Curatorial Program, among other venues. Gauthier teaches at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Ana Vizcarra Rankin (b. 1977) is a Uruguayan-American artist based in Philadelphia. Vizcarra Rankin has exhibited extensively in the United States in locations such as Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Rowan University Art Gallery and Instituto Cervantes, Chicago. She has received various awards, including the Judy McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BA in art history from Temple University. Her work resides in international, public, corporate and private collections. www.avrankin.com
The Brandywine River Museum of Art features an outstanding collection of American art housed in a 19th-century mill building with a dramatic steel and glass addition overlooking the banks of the Brandywine. The Museum is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (except Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day), and is located on Route 1 in Chadds Ford, PA. Admission is $18 for adults, $15 for seniors ages 65 and over, $6 for students and children ages 6 and up; free for children 5 and younger and Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art members. Guided tours of the Andrew Wyeth Studio, N.C. Wyeth House & Studio, and the Kuerner Farm, are available daily for an additional fee from April 1 through November 19; advance reservations are recommended. For more information, call 610.388.2700 or visit brandywinemuseum.org.
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