Rose Art Museum receives record number of gifts of art for its 60th anniversary
James Ari Montford, The Annunciation, 2015. Mixed media collage with oil crayon and paper. Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Purchased with a gift from members of the class of 73 and 74, 2020.3.2.
WALTHAM, MASS
.-The Rose Art Museum announced the gift of 86 works of art in honor of the museums 60th anniversary. This trove of artworks by established and emerging artists includes significant pieces by Francesco Clemente, Renee Cox, Jim Dine, Jenny Holzer, Wakamatsu Koichiro, Danny Lyon, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Jenny Holzer, Tracey Moffatt, Pablo Picasso, Betye Saar, Dahn Vo, and Andy Warhol among others. Many new works entering the Roses permanent collection enrich existing holdings by the same artists, while others expand and deepen the collection with new and underrepresented artists.
Don Wilkinson
South Dartmouth painter Roger Kizik doesn’t color within the lines. And probably never did.
Seventy-five years ago, he was born in Boston and raised in nearby West Medford. His mother was a learned and devoted opera fan. His father managed a sausage factory, all the while enjoying a parallel career as a gifted saxophonist in a dance and polka band dubbed The Modernistics.
Kizik acknowledged that the poles of “ethnic” and classical musical disciplines were an everyday fact and that those sounds still resonate deep within. But the music gene eluded him.
Childhood visits to the Museum of Fine Arts and the newly opened Decordova Museum offered an array of possibilities as to what art might actually be, well beyond comic books and the illustrations on the Saturday Evening Post. For him, museums garnered a kind of social and cultural fascination.