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Miguel Angel Rios: Walkabout
February 3 — April 22, 2012
Anna K. Meredith GalleryThis exhibition presents a selection of five video and multimedia installations along with paintings and works on paper that demonstrate Rios' unique relationship to the South American and Mexican landscape.
Miguel Angel Rios (Argentinian, born 1943)
Rooom, rooom (Vroom, Vroom), 2010
DVD, single channel projection
RT: 3:03 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
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Sideshow: Artists and the Circus
February 10 — April 22, 2012
Blank One GalleryThroughout history, artists have been fascinated by the colorful costumes, flying acrobats, and exotic animals of the circus. This exhibition features work from the Art Center's permanent collections by artists that held this fascination such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, John Steuart Curry, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (American, born Japan, 1889-1953)
Amazing Juggler, 1952 (detail)
Oil on canvas; 65 3/8 x 40 1/8 inches
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections;
Purchased with funds from the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., 1954.24 -
Delicacies
February 10 — June 17, 2012
Print GalleryOrganized to celebrate the Art Center's recent acquisition of a very rare experimental color etching, Chinese Arabesque with a Double Parasol by 18th-century British printmaker Anne Allen, Delicacies presents a group of works from the permanent collection in which artists express a sense of fragility, grace, lightness, and weightlessness.
Anne Allen (French, 1748-after 1808)
Chinese Arabesque with a Double Parasol, c.1795 (detail)
Color etching from two plates inked in a la poupee in gray,
blue, blue-green, olive-green, red, orange, and brown, on
pale blue-green plate toned laid paper; 7 11/16 x 5 9/16 inches
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections;
Gift of the Des Moines Art Center Print Club, 2011.9
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Tony Feher
May 11 — September 2, 2012
Anna K. Meredith GalleryThis exhibition is the first survey of the artist's career, and is organized by Blaffer Art Museum Director and Chief Curator Claudia Schmuckli.
Tony Feher (American, born 1956)
Sharadiant, 2000
Mop and broom handles: steel, bamboo, paint
and plastic; rope
Aproximately 97 inches in diameter, 1 1/4 inches high
© Tony Feher, courtesy The Pace Gallery and
D'Amelio Terras, New York
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Iowa Artists 2012: Print
October 5, 2012 — January 13, 2013
Print GalleryThis year, the Des Moines Art Center invites artists living and working in Iowa to submit original works created from 2008 to the present which utilize print media.
Iowa Artists 2012: Print design courtesy
Connie Wilson, Connie Wilson Design