Quick Center Season Focuses on
Art, Music of 20th Century
The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University opens the fall season with a number of new exhibitions and programs that focus on the art and music of the 20th century.
Works from various artists and movements of the 20th century are on display in the Quick Art Center’s Paul W. Beltz Gallery in the exhibition “Out of the Soupcan: Art of the Mid-Century and Beyond,” on exhibition now through Dec. 30. Highlighted among these works are Moroccan inspired paintings by Cecile Brunswick.
Also included are works by Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Helen Frankenthaler on loan from Bonnie Perryman in memory of her brother, Robert Young, as well as a rotating selection of 150 photos by Andy Warhol recently received by the Quick Center from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts through a nationally competitive grant. Accompanying the exhibition is a guide to the interchange of psychology and art written by St. Bonaventure professor of psychology Dr. Robin Valeri.
Robert Radin’s 30-year photographic journey across the globe, “This Beautiful World,” fills the mezzanine this semester. This traveling exhibit includes a large selection of photos of Nepal, offering readers of this year’s All Bonaventure Reads selection, “Little Princes” by Connor Grennan, a visual exploration of the Nepalese condition.
The Winifred Shortell Kenney Gallery holds an exhibition commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11. The exhibition features two paintings by former St. Bonaventure professor of visual and performing arts Cole Young, “After the Storm 7th Avenue” and “After the Storm” (1982), depicting a ruined New York City. It also includes a history of the Lower Manhattan site, original architectural drawings, and rare books on loan from Fordham University.
“African Odyssey III,” the African collection from The Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology, is in the final months of exhibition at the Quick Center, closing Oct. 31, 2011.
The Dresser Gallery along with the Permanent Collection of European and American art features a new exhibition on naturalist John Muir curated by SBU student Lauren Perkins. The exhibition contains the first edition “Yosemite,” a six volume work by Muir on loan from the Pfeiffer Nature Center in Portville, and two paintings on loan from the Rockwell Museum in Corning, “Gateway to Yosemite” (1884) by Thomas Hill and “Yosemite Valley” (1880) by Albert Bierstadt.
The Performing Arts Series at the Quick Center, in association with the local Friends of Good Music, has an exciting fall lineup of monthly concerts and performances. New York Voices, a Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble, opened the Friends season on Sept. 23.
Taikoza - Japanese Drums booms into the Quick Center’s Rigas Family Theater in October. Experience the powerful rhythms of the large Japanese taiko drums. Featuring a 200-lb. drum, this amazing group presents a unique program of thundering drumming and soothing bamboo flutes that will take you on an unforgettable journey through Japan. Returning to the Quick Center after their triumphant success in 2007, this international company is sure to be a sell-out. Taikoza – Japanese Drums performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21.
Playing in November is the Linden String Quartet, the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music. This quartet has enjoyed remarkable success during the last two years, garnering top prizes at important international competitions. The Linden String Quartet has spent summers in residence at the Emilia-Romagna Festival in Italy, at the Banff Centre, and the Music at Port Milford Chamber Music Festival in Ontario. Linden String Quartet performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4.
December begins with a performance of the Hudson Vagabond Puppets: “The Snow Queen.” This is the classic Hans Christian Andersen story set to the music of Archangelo Corelli and danced by large-scale puppets including a 12-foot tall Snow Queen. The performers are professional dancers and actors. Clad in black, the puppeteers borrow from the traditional Japanese Bunraku style of puppetry, becoming mere shadows of the enormous figures they bring to life. The Puppets tour nationally and have performed in concert halls, theaters, colleges, and major performing arts centers. Hudson Vagabond Puppets: “The Snow Queen” performs at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, and is a specially priced family performance.
The 18-member ensemble Madrigalia will perform a holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, closing out the fall performance season. Madrigalia uses choral music as a powerful tool to communicate humor, sorrow, prayer, meditation and celebration. Under the direction of Lee Wright, the ensemble has performed throughout Western New York and has been featured in live and pre-recorded broadcasts on Rochester’s public radio station. Always an audience favorite, this is the third visit of Madrigalia to the Quick Center.
For ticket information, contact the Quick Center box office at (716) 375-2494. Tickets for all performers are $20 full price; $16 for subscribers, SBU staff, and senior citizens; and $5 for students. Museum galleries open one hour before each performance and remain open through intermission.
Museum galleries are free and open to the public. Regular hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Pictured, a work by artist Keith Haring
Works from various artists and movements of the 20th century are on display in the Quick Art Center’s Paul W. Beltz Gallery in the exhibition “Out of the Soupcan: Art of the Mid-Century and Beyond,” on exhibition now through Dec. 30. Highlighted among these works are Moroccan inspired paintings by Cecile Brunswick.
Also included are works by Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Helen Frankenthaler on loan from Bonnie Perryman in memory of her brother, Robert Young, as well as a rotating selection of 150 photos by Andy Warhol recently received by the Quick Center from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts through a nationally competitive grant. Accompanying the exhibition is a guide to the interchange of psychology and art written by St. Bonaventure professor of psychology Dr. Robin Valeri. Robert Radin’s 30-year photographic journey across the globe, “This Beautiful World,” fills the mezzanine this semester. This traveling exhibit includes a large selection of photos of Nepal, offering readers of this year’s All Bonaventure Reads selection, “Little Princes” by Connor Grennan, a visual exploration of the Nepalese condition.
The Winifred Shortell Kenney Gallery holds an exhibition commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11. The exhibition features two paintings by former St. Bonaventure professor of visual and performing arts Cole Young, “After the Storm 7th Avenue” and “After the Storm” (1982), depicting a ruined New York City. It also includes a history of the Lower Manhattan site, original architectural drawings, and rare books on loan from Fordham University.
“African Odyssey III,” the African collection from The Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology, is in the final months of exhibition at the Quick Center, closing Oct. 31, 2011.
The Dresser Gallery along with the Permanent Collection of European and American art features a new exhibition on naturalist John Muir curated by SBU student Lauren Perkins. The exhibition contains the first edition “Yosemite,” a six volume work by Muir on loan from the Pfeiffer Nature Center in Portville, and two paintings on loan from the Rockwell Museum in Corning, “Gateway to Yosemite” (1884) by Thomas Hill and “Yosemite Valley” (1880) by Albert Bierstadt.
The Performing Arts Series at the Quick Center, in association with the local Friends of Good Music, has an exciting fall lineup of monthly concerts and performances. New York Voices, a Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble, opened the Friends season on Sept. 23.
Taikoza - Japanese Drums booms into the Quick Center’s Rigas Family Theater in October. Experience the powerful rhythms of the large Japanese taiko drums. Featuring a 200-lb. drum, this amazing group presents a unique program of thundering drumming and soothing bamboo flutes that will take you on an unforgettable journey through Japan. Returning to the Quick Center after their triumphant success in 2007, this international company is sure to be a sell-out. Taikoza – Japanese Drums performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21.
Playing in November is the Linden String Quartet, the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music. This quartet has enjoyed remarkable success during the last two years, garnering top prizes at important international competitions. The Linden String Quartet has spent summers in residence at the Emilia-Romagna Festival in Italy, at the Banff Centre, and the Music at Port Milford Chamber Music Festival in Ontario. Linden String Quartet performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4.
December begins with a performance of the Hudson Vagabond Puppets: “The Snow Queen.” This is the classic Hans Christian Andersen story set to the music of Archangelo Corelli and danced by large-scale puppets including a 12-foot tall Snow Queen. The performers are professional dancers and actors. Clad in black, the puppeteers borrow from the traditional Japanese Bunraku style of puppetry, becoming mere shadows of the enormous figures they bring to life. The Puppets tour nationally and have performed in concert halls, theaters, colleges, and major performing arts centers. Hudson Vagabond Puppets: “The Snow Queen” performs at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, and is a specially priced family performance.
The 18-member ensemble Madrigalia will perform a holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, closing out the fall performance season. Madrigalia uses choral music as a powerful tool to communicate humor, sorrow, prayer, meditation and celebration. Under the direction of Lee Wright, the ensemble has performed throughout Western New York and has been featured in live and pre-recorded broadcasts on Rochester’s public radio station. Always an audience favorite, this is the third visit of Madrigalia to the Quick Center.
For ticket information, contact the Quick Center box office at (716) 375-2494. Tickets for all performers are $20 full price; $16 for subscribers, SBU staff, and senior citizens; and $5 for students. Museum galleries open one hour before each performance and remain open through intermission.
Museum galleries are free and open to the public. Regular hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Pictured, a work by artist Keith Haring
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