dimensions of black
Horace Washington, Untitled (Mask), 1988. Cast concrete with wire, 15 x 12 x 4 ¾ in. Fine Arts Collection, The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis. Gift of Thomasin Grim and Michael S. Bell, in Memory of Joseph A. Baird, Jr.
Photo/Douglas Sandberg
UC Davis Art Museum
September 17-December 28, 2017
Dimensions of Black is, in most ways, a California story takes place in universities and museums. This show’s title can be traced to a 1970 exhibition curated at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (then named the La Jolla Museum of Art), organized by Jean Teilhet-Fisk, an art historian who taught at UC San Diego. Many of the works featured in this show are from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s permanent collection, and others are sourced from UC Davis’s collection. There are stories between these institutions and their collections, and then there are stories that come from the artists and the art works themselves. Those stories are about intergenerational knowledge transfer, multidisciplinary dialogues, and institutional critique.
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