|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Recent Acquisitions Releases Press Release Archive |
February First Friday Tour Celebrates Final Weekend of Kuch-Montgomery Exhibitions TYLER, TX— The Tyler Museum of Art offers a closer look at a pair of unique talents with February’s First Friday Art Tour, spotlighting the exhibitions Lucid Dreams: Poems & Intaglios by Michael Kuch and Nature Under Pressure: Etchings & Lithographs by William B. Montgomery. The tour, led by members of the TMA’s curatorial staff, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 6 in the Museum’s North Gallery. First Friday Art Tours are free and open to the public, but reservations are requested and may be made by calling (903) 595-1001. “Gaining a deeper insight into the work of two enormously gifted artists through a First Friday Tour is the ideal way to celebrate the final weekend of these extraordinary shows,” TMA Director Kimberley Bush Tomio said. “We strongly encourage anyone who hasn’t had the opportunity to view the works of Michael Kuch and Bill Montgomery to stop by the Museum before these exhibitions close on Sunday.”Lucid Dreams spotlights selections from the collection of Dr. James and Norma Cotton of Tyler, longtime TMA patrons who have been avid followers of Michael Kuch’s work over the last two decades. The TMA exhibition features complete editions of Kuch’s book creations for his own Double Elephant Press, including A Plague on Your House and Apocalypse Clocks, Lemon Descending and Amour and Armor, as well as more recent work such as Séance for a Minyan (Kuch’s collaboration with late U.S. Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht) and 2005’s Disaster of Love–A Defense of Delilah. Nature Under Pressure celebrates a quarter-century of variations on Tyler native William B. Montgomery’s recurring theme of animal life in situations ranging from the bucolic to the bizarre–with particular emphasis on the reptile etchings for which the artist has received his widest acclaim. The TMA exhibition encompasses works ranging from 1983’s Reptile House–Corallus to 2008’s Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, punctuated by surrealistic snapshots of other creatures such as fish (1981’s The Grinnel), birds (2002’s Adventures in Paradise) and even crustaceans (2000’s Limulus Christus, State II). The Tyler Museum of Art, accredited by the American Association of Museums, is located at 1300 S. Mahon Ave., adjacent to the Tyler Junior College campus off East Fifth Street. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. (The Museum is closed Mondays and major holidays.) Lunch is available in the Museum Café from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and the TMA Gift Shop is open during exhibition hours. For more information, call (903) 595-1001 or visit www.tylermuseum.org. |