Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country

Please note: Tickets are required for entry to this special exhibition. General admission, $20; Wellesley College alumnae, $12. Free entry for all students with I.D., Wellesley College faculty and staff, Friends of Art members, and Durant Society members. Ticket information coming soon.

Marking the artist’s first major monographic museum exhibition in the United States, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College is pleased to present Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country, an in-depth introduction to and survey of the artist’s work at mid-career. Curated by Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 Director at the Davis, the exhibition features 55+ works completed within the last decade, including several of the magnificent monumental woodcuts—hand-carved blocks and hand-printed impressions—for which the artist is best known, along with photo-engravings, aquatints, and photogravures executed in series.

Baumgartner works at the intersection of old and new media to expand the conceptual and technical capacities of printmaking—to push beyond the traditional boundaries of the medium’s expectations and precedents. Sourcing images from cinema and television, or from her own photographs and videos, Baumgartner’s images defy print convention. Often monumental in scale, or undertaken in extended series, the work is about speed and transmission, about human sight and its elusive capture, about cultural memory and modes of representation.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

Whether or not you go, Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country offers an in-depth introduction to the artist’s work. Includes essays contextualizing her work in relation to the Leipzig school and the German printmaking tradition as well as an interview with the artist surveying her practice.