Lee Barnes Peck
Cocktail Ring, ca. 1970
14k-gold and cultured pearls
1 1/8 x 1 1/4 x 1 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Family and Friends in Memory of Karen Johnson Boyd
Photography: Jon Bolton, Racine

OBJECTS REDUX: Studio Craft in Context, 1960–1985

October 20, 2019 – February 2, 2020
at Racine Art Museum

Regardless of the materials, they choose to use, artists respond to—or in other ways reflect—the world around them. In the retrospective light of history, works can sometimes be read as “of the time” they were made—not just because of the particular artist that made them but also because of aesthetic or material choices. This exhibition plays to that idea and places studio craft in the context of two-dimensional paintings and works on paper made between 1960 and 1985. It provides a theoretical structure for understanding the larger social and cultural environment that helped to shape the content and form of the work.

Artists in the Exhibition

Deborah Aguado, Neda Al-Hilali, Bennett Bean, Helen Bitar, Richard Black, Joyce Crain, Randall Darwall, Dominic L. Di Mare, Stephen Dee Edwards, Arline Fisch, George Frederiksen, John Glick, Martha Glowacki, Lisa Gralnick, Ruth Grotenrath, Ann Hamilton, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Sheila Hicks, Wayne Donald Higby, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hlavacek, Bruno LaVerdière, Jacob B. Lewis, Marlene Lipinski, Jim Monson, Lee Barnes Peck, Marva Pitchford-Jolly, Svetozar Radakovich, Don Reitz, Jon Eric Riis, Richard Ritter, Ed Rossbach, Arthur Secunda, Tommy Simpson, Marko Spalatin, Jean Stamsta, John Stephenson, Robert Stocksdale, Lenore Tawney, Virginia Tiffany, David Tisdale, Dorothy Torivio, Beth Van Hoesen, Angela Verdon, Peter Voulkos, Edward Wiener, Frans Wildenhain, Karl Wirsum, Paul Wonner, and Beatrice Wood

OBJECTS REDUX: Studio Craft in Context, 1960–1985

October 20, 2019 – February 2, 2020
at Racine Art Museum
Lee Barnes Peck
Cocktail Ring, ca. 1970
14k-gold and cultured pearls
1 1/8 x 1 1/4 x 1 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Family and Friends in Memory of Karen Johnson Boyd
Photography: Jon Bolton, Racine

Regardless of the materials, they choose to use, artists respond to—or in other ways reflect—the world around them. In the retrospective light of history, works can sometimes be read as “of the time” they were made—not just because of the particular artist that made them but also because of aesthetic or material choices. This exhibition plays to that idea and places studio craft in the context of two-dimensional paintings and works on paper made between 1960 and 1985. It provides a theoretical structure for understanding the larger social and cultural environment that helped to shape the content and form of the work.

Artists in the Exhibition

Deborah Aguado, Neda Al-Hilali, Bennett Bean, Helen Bitar, Richard Black, Joyce Crain, Randall Darwall, Dominic L. Di Mare, Stephen Dee Edwards, Arline Fisch, George Frederiksen, John Glick, Martha Glowacki, Lisa Gralnick, Ruth Grotenrath, Ann Hamilton, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Sheila Hicks, Wayne Donald Higby, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hlavacek, Bruno LaVerdière, Jacob B. Lewis, Marlene Lipinski, Jim Monson, Lee Barnes Peck, Marva Pitchford-Jolly, Svetozar Radakovich, Don Reitz, Jon Eric Riis, Richard Ritter, Ed Rossbach, Arthur Secunda, Tommy Simpson, Marko Spalatin, Jean Stamsta, John Stephenson, Robert Stocksdale, Lenore Tawney, Virginia Tiffany, David Tisdale, Dorothy Torivio, Beth Van Hoesen, Angela Verdon, Peter Voulkos, Edward Wiener, Frans Wildenhain, Karl Wirsum, Paul Wonner, and Beatrice Wood

Gallery of Work

Exhibitions at RAM are made possible by:

Platinum Sponsors

The Estate of Karen Johnson Boyd
David Charak
Judith and David Flegel Fund
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ron and Judith Isaacs
Nicholas and Nancy Kurten
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Windgate Foundation

Diamond Sponsors

City of Racine’s Grow Racine Grant
Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation
Ruffo Family Foundation
Ruth Arts Foundation

Gold Sponsors

Anonymous
Tom and Irene Creecy
Richard and Patricia Ehlert
Herzfeld Foundation
Reliance Controls
Ruth Foundation for the Arts
Trio Foundation of St. Louis
W.T. Walker Group, Inc.
Wisconsin Arts Board

Silver Sponsors

Anonymous
Art Bridges
Baird
A.C. Buhler Family
Lucy G. Feller
Ben and Dawn Flegel
Jim Harris
Sharon and Tom Harty
Lise Iwon
J. Jeffers & Co.
Johnson Financial Group
Dorothy MacVicar
Jan Serr and John Shannon

Bronze Sponsors

Ellen and Joseph Albrecht
Andis Foundation
Susan Boland
Virginia Buhler
Butcher & Barrel/Amos Los Tacos
Educators Credit Union
Express Employment Professionals
Tony and Andrea Hauser
Bill and Debbie Keland
Susan Manalli
Jean and Alex Mandli, Jr.
The Prairie School
Cathy Stanghellin
Georgiana Treivush
Twin Disc, Inc.