Set in Motion: Camille Utterback and Art That Moves
September 3–December 8, 2019
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Ft. Worth, TX
Set in Motion: Art That Moves at Amon Carter Museum surveys artwork that transforms human movement with artworks by Laura Splan, Camille Utterback, Louise Nevelson, Anni Albers, Barbara Morgan, Ruth Asawa, Helen Frankenthaler, Anne Ryan, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Laura Splan’s computerized Jacquard weaving, Squint, created with electromyography data-driven patterns is on loan from the Thoma Art Foundation Collection.
This exhibition pairs an interactive installation by new-media artist Camille Utterback with a century of art depicting motion from the Carter’s collection. In Utterback’s Untitled 5 (2004), visitors’ movements in the gallery space are run through computer software written by the artist that translates them into an animated digital painting that constantly evolves. Although thoroughly contemporary, Untitled 5 builds on a rich lineage of artwork that records or transforms human movement, including the abstract expressionists Utterback considers her creative forbears. Set in Motion includes a selection of work by women who experimented to pursue this difficult goal, from well-known masters like Georgia O’Keeffe and Helen Frankenthaler to underappreciated artists like Barbara Morgan and Anne Ryan.
Set in Motion: Art That Moves at Amon Carter Museum surveys artwork that transforms human movement with artworks by Laura Splan, Camille Utterback, Louise Nevelson, Anni Albers, Barbara Morgan, Ruth Asawa, Helen Frankenthaler, Anne Ryan, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Laura Splan’s computerized Jacquard weaving, Squint, created with electromyography data-driven patterns is on loan from the Thoma Art Foundation Collection.
This exhibition pairs an interactive installation by new-media artist Camille Utterback with a century of art depicting motion from the Carter’s collection. In Utterback’s Untitled 5 (2004), visitors’ movements in the gallery space are run through computer software written by the artist that translates them into an animated digital painting that constantly evolves. Although thoroughly contemporary, Untitled 5 builds on a rich lineage of artwork that records or transforms human movement, including the abstract expressionists Utterback considers her creative forbears. Set in Motion includes a selection of work by women who experimented to pursue this difficult goal, from well-known masters like Georgia O’Keeffe and Helen Frankenthaler to underappreciated artists like Barbara Morgan and Anne Ryan.
