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| Richard Hunt |
Richard Hunt’s career has
spanned six decades, and although the artist is now in his 80s, he continues to
create large-scale public commissions. The sculptor’s work will be on view at
the Georgia Museum of Art from October 20 through February 3 in the exhibition
“Richard Hunt: Synthesis.” The show, which was organized by Larry D. and Brenda
A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art Shawnya
Harris, draws from public and private collections all over the country. It will
feature several sculptures and works on paper that trace the various phases of
Hunt’s career, including welded and cast sculpture dating from the 1950s to the
present and models he made after his transition to large-scale public
commissions in the late 1960s.
Hunt’s earliest work is tied
to his time at the Junior School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and later the
Art Institute. The Museum of Modern Art in New York played a role too, when it
presented a retrospective exhibition of his career in 1971 and purchased some
of his early work. Of particular interest for Georgians are “Wisdom Bridge,”
which Hunt created for the downtown branch of the Atlanta Public Library and a
pair of sculptures (“Tower of Aspirations” and “And They Went Down Both into
the Water”) for Augusta’s Springfield Park.
“Richard Hunt: Synthesis”
will be accompanied by a number of related events throughout the fall at the
Georgia Museum of Art. The exhibition will also serve as the focus of the
museum’s 5th-grade tours as part of Experience UGA this year, allowing all
5th-grade students in the Clarke County School District to experience the works
of a pioneering African American sculptor.
Other related programming
for this exhibition includes:
·
a public
conversation with Hunt on October 19 at 4:30 p.m. (in the museum’s M. Smith Griffith
Auditorium)
·
90 Carlton:
Autumn, the museum’s quarterly reception (free for museum members, $5
non-members) on October 19 at 5:30 p.m.
·
a public tour
with Harris on October 31 at 2 p.m.
·
a Family Day as
part of UGA’s 2019 Spotlight on the Arts festival on November 3 from 10 a.m. to
noon
·
a screening of
Charlie Ahearn’s documentary “Richard Hunt: Sculptor” on November 29 at 7 p.m.
·
an Artful
Conversation on December 5 at 2 p.m.
·
and a Teen
Studio on January 17 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (email sagekincaid@uga.edu or call 706.542.8863 to reserve a spot).
All programs are free and open
to the public unless otherwise indicated.
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