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12/3/2011 - 2/12/2012
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
The term "altered states" (of mind, of consciousness, of awareness, etc.) describes intense mental and/or psychological changes that cause the person to lose his/her normal sensory perceptions. Almost always temporary, these distortions can occur as a result of fever, psychosis, meditation, lucid dreaming, sensory deprivation or overload, and trauma, to name but a few stimulants. Frequently associated with being transported into a transcendent realm of higher consciousness or truth, the phenomenon often is associated with artistic creativity as well. The works of art on display in this exhibition not only feature figures experiencing such mind expansions and visions, but also depict the products of such mental conditions.
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
This Exhibition includes the following Venues:
- Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro 12/3/2011 - 2/12/2012
The term "altered states" (of mind, of consciousness, of awareness, etc.) describes intense mental and/or psychological changes that cause the person to lose his/her normal sensory perceptions. Almost always temporary, these distortions can occur as a result of fever, psychosis, meditation, lucid dreaming, sensory deprivation or overload, and trauma, to name but a few stimulants. Frequently associated with being transported into a transcendent realm of higher consciousness or truth, the phenomenon often is associated with artistic creativity as well. The works of art on display in this exhibition not only feature figures experiencing such mind expansions and visions, but also depict the products of such mental conditions.
Exhibition Objects (26)
Artists (26)
- Benjamin Levy (Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1940 - )
- Christy Rupp (Rochester, NY, 1949 - )
- Dennis Smith (Glen Ridge, NJ, 1951 - 1983, New York, NY)
- Francesca Woodman (Denver, CO, 1958 - 1981, New York, NY)
- George McNeil (1908 - 1995)
- Giuseppe Napoli (New York, NY, 1929 – 1967)
- Jerome Witkin (Brooklyn, NY, 1939 - )
- Jim Nutt (Pittsfield, MA, 1938 - )
- Julián Trigo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1965 - )
- Lennie Kesl (Edwardsville, IL, 1926 - 2012, Gainesville, FL)
- Lucky DeBellevue (Lafayette, LA, 1957 - )
- Mabel Alvarez (1891 - 1985)
- Martín Ramírez (Rincon de Velazquez, Tepatitlan, Jalisco, Mexico, 1895 - 1963, Auburn, CA)
- Minnie Evans (Long Creek, NC, 1892 – 1987, Wilmington, NC)
- Morgan Russell (New York, NY, 1886 - 1953, Broomall, PA)
- Red Grooms (Nashville, TN, 1937 - )
- Reuben Kadish (Chicago, IL, 1913 - 1992, New York, NY)
- Richard Lindner (Hamburg, Germany, 1901 - 1978, New York, NY)
- Robert Beauchamp (Denver, CO, 1923 - 1995, New York, NY)
- Robert Gordy (Jefferson Island, LA, 1933 - 1986)
- Rockwell Kent (Tarrytown Heights, NY, 1882 - 1971, Plattsburg, NY)
- Ronald Bladen (Vancouver, Canada, 1918 - 1988)
- Roy De Forest (North Platte, NE, 1930 - 2007, Port Costa, CA)
- Sol Wilson (Poland, 1896 - 1974)
- Valérie Favre (Evilard, Switzerland, 1959 - )
- William Copley (New York, NY, 1919 - 1996, Key West, FL)