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Keith Edmier, “Cycas Orogeny (detail),” 2003–04, basalt, polyurethane, acrylic paint and Cycas Revoluta pollen, 88½ by 247¾ inches, private collection, The Netherlands. —photo courtesy Lamay Photo-Images

 

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‘KEITH EDMIER 1991–2007’ AT BARD’S CURATORIAL CENTER, 1 CUT

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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — This fall, the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College is presenting the most comprehensive exhibition to date of American artist Keith Edmier, whose deeply self-referential works are known for inextricably linking the artist’s personal life with pop culture iconography. In conjunction with the exhibition, a new book, Keith Edmier 1991–2007, has been released.

Besides including a broad selection of the strikingly personal works Edmier has created over the past 16 years, the exhibition, “Keith Edmier 1991–2007,” will feature an installation commissioned by the center, “Bremen Towne,” a full-scale sculptural reproduction of the artist’s childhood Chicago home.

Curated by CCS Bard executive director Tom Eccles, the exhibit will be on view through February 3.

Ranging from Edmier’s earliest works, such as “I Met a Girl Who Sang the Blues,” 1991, through “Bremen Towne,” the exhibition presents an overview of Edmier’s work. It demonstrates not only the power of the artist’s use of his autobiographical landscape as a foil for considering a collective experience, but also his technical expertise as a sculptor.

Many of Edmier’s works build upon and expose the intersections between his personal world and such American cultural touchstones as motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel, with whom he collaborated, and Janis Joplin, Farrah Fawcett and John Lennon.

The major new installation, “Bremen Towne” is a full-scale reproduction of the interior spaces from the ranch home in which he grew up in Tinley Park, a southwest suburb of Chicago.

“It is being made to resemble what it would have looked like when I first moved there with my parents in 1971,” the artist writes. “Bremen Towne will function as a curated space — an exhibition of those things which influenced my early aesthetic development in the surroundings that helped to shape me.”

For information, 845-758-7598 or www.bard.edu/ccs.