“The Stoop” by Richard Yarde, 1969-1970, acrylic on canvas, 74 1/4 x 79 3/4, on loan from the Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, Tennessee.
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Curated by Dr. Jennifer Jankauskas, AMFA curator, “A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time” is organized by AMFA as part of the Mid-South Cohort. This multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership formed by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Fisk University Art Gallery and the Mississippi Museum of Art, is made possible by the Art Bridges Cohort Program.
“We are pleased to be a part of the Mid-South Cohort and excited to share the exhibition with our partner museums,” says Dr. Victoria Ramirez, AMFA executive director. “The art in this exhibition reimagines the ways we structure time, shows the effects of time passing on our bodies and the environment, portrays the different ways we relate to time in our daily lives and invites deeper reflection on all these themes.”
“A Month of Sundays” brings together modern and contemporary works by nearly 50 artists. Implying a prolonged period — 30 to 31 weeks — the Southern phrase “a month of Sundays” captures a sense of extended duration. Featuring an array of media such as craft, video, painting, drawing and sculpture, the exhibition is organized into five sections: “Slow Time,” “For the Duration,” “Aging and Erosion,” “Marking Time” and “A Sense of Pause.” Each section offers insight into the ways time is perceived in everyday life and the surrounding environment.
“Humans have an interesting relationship to time — using calendars and watches to measure it and keep track — but time is not as easy to control or understand,” Jankauskas explains. “We hope guests use the exhibition as an opportunity to slow down and press pause on their busy lives while discovering how modern and contemporary artists explore the concept of time and its passing through a variety of media.”
(Description provided by AMFA.)
See Yarde’s work in the exhibit “A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time” on display at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in the Harriet and Warren Stephens Family Gallery through Sept. 6.