The Academy Art Museum‘s curator, Anke Van Wagenberg, spent a few minutes last week briefing the Spy about artist Ray Turner’s exhibition entitled Population currently on display on the first-floor gallery.
Turners’ work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Turner began painting portraits for the current body of work and traveling museum exhibition called Population in 2007. The idea was to paint portraits of the uncelebrated to the celebrated people from a cross section of the populace in communities across America. The subjects would then become part of the growing body of work that represented their communities and respective museums. The exhibition is currently touring the United States and abroad began at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. It has shown in eight museums and Turner’s work is in many permanent and private collections. Still growing in number the body of work has currently has over 500 portraits.Population is an installation based body of work, painted on 12-inch squares of sapphire glass, which are then displayed on a color field grid that becomes their background.
Ray Turner: Population will be on display April 25 through July 5, 2015 with Curator Tours on May 8 at 12 noon and June 10 at 12 noon.
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