Honoring Karen Johnson Boyd: A Multi-Dimensional Approach

June 24, 2018 – February 3, 2019
at Racine Art Museum

This exhibition features two-dimensional and three-dimensional works in a variety of media. Collector Karen Johnson Boyd supported artists working in craft media as well as those in photography, drawing, collage, painting, and printmaking. She collected contemporary printmakers in-depth, like noted Wisconsinites Warrington Colescott and Frances Myers, in addition to famed Madison-based painter and draftsman, John Wilde. Her strong interest in photography, as both a photographer and collector, led her to acquire works by celebrated artists such as Diane Arbus, Roy DeCarava, and Aaron Siskind.

In some ways, Mrs. Boyd was revolutionary. Her trademark style—in terms of the work she collected and how she displayed it—was to blend all media together. For example, glass would be shown next to works on paper, baskets, ceramics, metals, and furniture. RAM’s approach to acquiring and displaying work is similar—two-and three-dimensional objects in a variety of media are shown together to demonstrate their commonalities.

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Artists in the Exhibition

Ann Agee, Deborah Aguado, Jeanette Ahlgren, Diane Arbus, Robert Arneson, Rudy Autio, Sid Avery, Ralph Bacerra, Carolyn Morris Bach, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Hannelore Baron, Jack Beal, Anthony Bennett, Jamie Bennett, Ruth Bernhard, Mary Bero, Liv Blåvarp, Thom Robert Bohnert, Flora Book, Richard Bosman, Christina Bothwell, Joanne Segal Brandford, Bill Brandt, Christie Brown, Sandra Brownlee, Irena Brynner, Jessica Calderwood, Paul Caster, Wendell Castle, Peter Chang, Louisa Chase, Dale Chihuly, Chunghi Choo, Sharon Church, Larry Clark, Francesco Clemente, Deb Cocks, Patty Cokus, Warrington Colescott, John N. Colt, Lia Cook, Betty Cooke, Annette Corcoran, Philip Cornelius, Giovanni Corvaja, Ralston Crawford, Randall Darwall, Christopher Davis-Benavides, Olga de Amaral, Roy DeCarava, Richard DeVore, Dominic L. Di Mare, Richard Diebenkorn, Rick Dillingham, Stephen Dixon, Ruth Duckworth, Jack Earl, Robert W.Ebendorf, Edward Eberle, Carol Eckert, Eva Eisler, Lillian Elliot, Micah Evans, Laszlo Fekete, Fred Fenster, Ken Ferguson, Bean Finneran, Arline Fisch, Llyn Foulkes, Robert Frank, Lucian Freud, Lee Friedlander, Donald Friedlich, Sueharu Fukami, David Furman, Amara Geffen, Andrea Gill, Peter Gourfain, Emmet Gowin, Gregory M. Grenon, Jan Groover, Karen Gunderson, Dorothy Hafner, Hideo Hagiwara, Richard Hamilton, Keiko Hara, William Harper, Okiie Hashimoto, Norie Hatakeyama, Yasuo Hayashi, Otto Heino, Vivika Heino, Shigemasa Higashida, Wayne Donald Higby, Anne E.Hirondelle, David Hockney, Elizabeth Holder, Paul Horiuchi, Eikoh Hosoe, Mary Lee Hu, Shoichi Ida, Masuo Ikeda, Arata Isozaki, Margaret Ponce Israel, Sergei Isupov, Diane Itter, Yukihiro Iwakawa, Kiyomi Iwata, Ferne Jacobs, Yvonne Jacquette, Georges Jeanclos, Jun Kaneko, Karen Karnes, Michael Kenna, Rena Koopman, Silas Kopf, Shana Kroiz, Yih-Wen Kuo, Mariko Kusumoto, Armin Landeck, Rebekah Laskin, Emmett Leader, John Conrad Lewis, Marvin Lipofsky, Ken Loeber, Dona Look, Tim Lowly, Michael Lucero, Danny Lyon, James Makins, Sylvia Mangold, Thomas Mann, Louis Marak, Dante Marioni, Richard Marquis, Tony Marsh, Karen Thuesen Massaro, Deborah Masuoka, Beverly Mayeri, Meg McCarthy, Harrison McIntosh, John McQueen, James Frederick Melchert, Mary Merkel-Hess, Bruce Metcalf, Duane Michals, Lee Miller, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Norma Minkowitz, Hiromitsu Morimoto, Robert Motherwell, Eleanor H. Moty, Tomoahru Murakami, Frances Myers, Elie Nadelman, Patrick Nagatani, Harumi Nakashima, Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler, Odd Nerdrum, Ted Noten, Walter Nottingham, Harold O’Connor, Michael Olszewski, Mimmo Paladino, Albert Paley, Gina Pankowski, Earl Pardon, Francesco Pavan, Ronald Hayes Pearson, Lee Barnes Peck, Gustavo Pérez, Jeff Perrone, Sylvia Plachy, Eliott Porter, Linda Kindler Priest, Robin Quigley, Wendy Ramshaw, Robert Rauschenberg, David Regan, Don Reitz, Susan Rezac, Kait Rhoads, Larry Rivers, Ed Rossbach, Eva Rubinstein, Amy Sabrina, Harvey Sadow, Jane Sauer, Italo Scanga, Cynthia Schira, June Schwarcz, Joyce Scott, Bonnie Seeman, Hisako Sekijima, Kay Sekimachi, Joel Shapiro, Richard Shaw, Michael Sherrill, Esther Shimazu, Helen Shirk, Kim Simonsson, Aaron Siskind, Kiff Slemmons, Art Smith, Vanessa L. Smith, W. Eugene Smith, Ettore Sottsass, Robert Sperry, Therman Statom, Saul Steinberg, Pat Steir, Mara Superior, Didi Suydam, Toshiko Takaezu, Noboru Takayama, Hideho Tanaka, Byron Temple, Wayne Thiebaud, Alan Burton Thompson, Geoff Thornley, Matteo Thun, Margaret Thurman, Gianni Toso, Xavier Toubes, Andree Tracey, Robert Turner, Jerry N.Uelsmann, William Underhill, Kenji Ushiku, Tom Uttech, Peter VandenBerge, Kukuli Velarde, Esteban Vicente, Peter Voulkos, Morihiro Wada, Grace Bakst Wapner, Kurt Weiser, Alfred Wertheimer, Katherine Westphal, John Wilde, Anne Wilson, Susan Wise, J. Fred Woell, Beatrice Wood, Betty Woodman, Janice Mars Wunderlich, Jiro Yonezawa, Shoji Yoshida, Marci Zelmanoff