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Drawing from the Collections

Drawing Light with Pastels

Thursdays, November 7, 14, 21 and December 5, 8 p.m.

Join us for free pastel-drawing classes taught over Zoom by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo. Classes are offered in partnership with the Arts Council of Princeton and are part of Arts and Health Mercer. Lessons are inspired by works in the Museum’s collections depicting light. 

Abstraction and Light 
Thursday, November 7 

Exploring Color Values 
Thursday, November 14 

Warm and Cool Colors 
Thursday, November 21 

Reflections 
Thursday, December 5

 


 

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Film Screening

The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon

Wednesday, November 13, 7 p.m.
Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture

 

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s film The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon (2022) follows an artist named Nguyêt as she navigates the vestiges of munitions and unexploded ordnance that continue to devastate the landscape and lives of her extended family in Vietnam. As Nguyêt transforms weaponry into magnificent sculpture and prosthetics, Unburied Sounds considers the force of these materials in expressing concepts related to reincarnation, artistic impulse, historical perspective, and reparation.  

 


 

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Artist Talk

Elson Artist Talk: Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn 

Thurday, November 14, 5:30 p.m.
Robertson Hall 016

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, the Art Museum’s Fall 2024 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence, works across media to represent gripping stories about intergenerational experiences of the Vietnam War. Join the artist for a discussion about how he deploys the expansive capacity of his art to transform the destructive forces of war into visionary opportunities for healing and renewal. Reception to follow.  

In 2025, the Art Museum's new building will open with a monumental site-specific commission created by Nguyễn.

 


 

 

Faculty Panel

Helène Aylon: Undercurrent 

Thursday, November 21, 5:30 p.m.
Robertson Hall 016

Join guest curator Rachel Federman; Katherine Bussard, Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography; Esther Schor, John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor and Professor of English; and Stacy Wolf, professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and American Studies, for a discussion of the exhibition Helène Aylon: Undercurrent. Speakers will consider various aspects of Aylon’s fifty-year career as a feminist artist and ecological activist, including her approach to making art, her Jewish upbringing, reconciliation, and liberation. Reception to follow. 

 


 

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Museum Store

Helen Frankenthaler Notecards

This set of twenty notecards and envelopes showcases ten of American artist Helen Frankenthaler’s luminous Abstract Expressionist paintings from the 1960s—as evocative today as when they were first created. 

Shop in person at 56 Nassau Street in downtown Princeton or online at princetonmuseumstore.orgMembers receive a discount on every purchase. Join today

 


 

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Images

Shazia Sikhander, Quintuplet Effect, 2016. Princeton University. © Shahzia Sikander. Photo: Ricardo Barros  

Hyde Solomon, Sky and Mountain, 1973. Gift of Mrs. George Poindexter in memory of William C. Seitz, Graduate School Class of 1955. © Hyde Solomon

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Still from The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon, 2022. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, 2024. Courtesty the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo: Phoebe d'Heurle

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo: Harry Vu

Helène Aylon, I Will Wait for the Landing, 2014. Collection of Helène Aylon Estate, Courtesy of Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Art@Bainbridge is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Ivy Beth Lewis.  

Additional support for Helène Aylon: Undercurrent is provided by Princeton University’s Center for Culture, Society and Religion; Office of Religious Life; Program in Judaic Studies; Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Department of Religion.

Curatorial
LATE THURSDAYS! Thursday-evening programming is made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. 

 

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