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Deep Play: Joyful Revelry and Subversive Whimsy
12:00 PM  Missoula Art Museum
Description:
Deep Play is a
survey of 36 artworks from MAM's permanent collections that explore symbols and
strategies of play. Guided by naturalist Diane Ackerman’s theory that humans
seek out play’s risk and ritual to attain creative insight and transcend the
bounds of the real world, the exhibition features work that is exuberant,
defiant, and emotionally perceptive. Through photographs, prints, paintings,
sculptures, and moving images, MAM invites viewers to follow more than twenty
artists, including Joe Batt, Stephanie Frostad, Walter Hook, Lorna Simpson,
John Smart, and Patricia Thornton, on their daring quest for joy.
Thorton's drawing, Teddy, inspired this exhibition. In October 2007, MAM interviewed the artist about this work. Audiences are invited to do the same, when Thornton presents a gallery talk at Artini: Insert Holiday Here on Thursday, December 20 at 7pm.
Read more about the exhibition's themes and see more images of work included in the exhibition in a short essay by Jennifer Reifsneider, MAM's Registrar and Curator of Collections.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Missoula Art Museum
Address: 335 North Pattee, Missoula
Phone: 728.0447
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