First Major Exhibition of the Art of Mina Loy to Open at º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Museum of Art
The º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and present Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Lowy, 1882-1966), one of the most challenging poets of the twentieth century. Even though Loy developed a powerful body of visual art—one that was admired by contemporaries such as Marcel Duchamp, who curated a show of her work in 1959—no comprehensive exhibition has addressed the visual production of this pioneering modernist and feminist. Curated by Jennifer R. Gross, the exhibition includes over 60 paintings, drawings, constructions, designs, inventions, and original publications of poetry created by Loy through the course of her life will be united to reveal Loy’s omnivorous creativity as an image-maker, author, and cultural arbiter. These pieces are complemented by approximately 20 selected artworks by such friends and associates as Berenice Abbott, Joseph Cornell, Lee Miller, Man Ray, Umbo, and Beatrice Wood. These remarkable objects, drawn from close to a dozen institutional and private collections, will be complemented by extensive, never-before presented, archival materials. A richly illustrated catalogue featuring contributions from Gross, poet Ann Lauterbach, Surrealist scholar Dawn Ades, and writer and editor Roger Conover will be published by Princeton University Press to accompany the exhibition. The show will be on view from April 6 to September 17, 2023.
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