Lifelike
November 11th, 2012 - February 3rd, 2013
Organized by the Walker Art Center, Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, often playful, and sometimes surreal. This international group exhibition features artists variously using scale, unusual materials, and sly contextual devices to reveal the manner in which their subject’s authenticity is manufactured. Avoiding the brand-name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap. They also favor a handmade, labor-intensive practice rather than technological enhancements. The resulting works including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and video transform the ordinary into something beguiling, loaded with narrative and metaphor, and imbued with an arresting sense of humanity.
Lifelike showcases works from the late 1960s to the present over 50 artists, including Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, James Casebere, Vija Celmins, Keith Edmier, Fischli and Weiss, Kaz Oshiro, Charles Ray, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Ai Weiwei.
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Keith Edmier
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly Click here to read the article on Gambit Weekly’s website. Visual art has long been concerned with realism – the accurate depiction of the “real” world around us – but now, thanks to digital photography, the Internet and cellphone cameras, we live in a world filled with images… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune November 08, 2012 Click here to see the full article with images. “Lifelike,” the big new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is an amusement park of brain-teasing optical deceptions. The weirdness starts the minute you step through the museum’s bronze doors. Let your eyes scan… Read More
On view November 11 to January 27, Lifelike explores the boundaries between the real and fabricated in the work of over 50 artists from around the globe. Artists featured in the exhibition Include Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, Charles Ray, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Susan Collins, and Vija Clemins. Get first looks at Likelike during NOMA’s… Read More
Click here to see a photo gallery of ‘Lifelike’ on view at NOMAby Ted Jackson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Read More
By Alex Rawls | My Spilt Milk The new show at the New Orleans Museum of Art needs to be seen in its space to be fully appreciated. The subtext of “Lifelike,” the new show at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is the art gallery experience. The collected pieces not only rely on the… Read More
By Lianna Patch | NOLA Defender Click here to read the article on NOLA Defender’s website. Now open at the New Orleans Museum of Art: an exhibit that will blow your mind, frustrate, confuse, elevate, and overwhelm you. “Lifelike,” on loan until January 27, 2013, from the Walker Art Center in Minnesota, is a multimedia… Read More
WWNO’s “Inside the Arts” features NOMA’s Odyssey Ball & Lifelike Exhibition, Central City Festival, LPO Brass and more! Published: Tue November 6, 2012 Click here to listen to the full interview at WWNO.org “This week on Inside the Arts we’ll Make A Joyful Noise as we kick off the 6th Annual Central City Festival; trumpeter… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune While considering the best New Orleans art exhibits of 2012, it became clear that this was a year of disquiet on the Crescent City art scene. In March, the Contemporary Arts Center was the focus of an artists’ protest over the temporary closure of an exhibition and the… Read More