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Smoked: Works By John Cage, Ray Kass, and Stephen Addiss Smoked: Works By John Cage, Ray Kass, and Stephen Addiss will be on view from September 15 to December 17, 2006. Seminal composer, writer, and artist John Cage (born Los Angeles, California, 1912-1992) created works on paper using smoke, watercolor, branding, and other media. This exhibition presents a selection of Cage's watercolors and prints, with works by Ray Kass, Professor of Art, Emeritus at Virginia Tech, and Stephen Addiss, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities-Art and Professor of Art History at the University of Richmond. John Cage is best known as one of the most important avant-garde composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and he collaborated with several important choreographers and artists, including Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Rauschenberg. In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Cage's interest in East Asian and Indian philosophy led him to abandon intention, memory, and personal taste from music, performance, poetry, and visual art. |
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Ray Kass collaborated with Cage on several projects at the Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia, a collaborative, community-based art project founded by Kass, that draws upon the customs, environmental, and technological resources of the New River Valley and the Appalachian region. Kass' works on smoked paper includes tondos, circular images created from watercolor, stencil, and fabric scrims which are sealed with beeswax and mounted on wood panels. Kass has had several one-person exhibitions in many museums and galleries including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, as well as in museums in Japan. He is also a published author on John Cage and artist Morris Graves. Stephen Addiss, a composer, musician, poet, painter, and Japanese art historian, studied with John Cage when he attended the New School for Social Research in New York, from 1958 to 1960. In his artwork, he combines calligraphy, ink-painting and abstract forms to smoked paper that was prepared by Kass. Addiss' work has been shown in numerous one-person and group exhibitions, including the Queens Museum, St. Louis Museum of Art, the University of Virginia Art Museum, and museums in Korea, China, and Taiwan. Additionally, he is the author of thirty-five books, including How to Look at Japanese Art, The Art of Zen, The Art of Chinese Calligraphy, and 77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars, 1568 - 1868. Smoked: Works By John Cage, Ray Kass, and Stephen Addiss was organized by the University of Richmond Museums, the exhibition was curated by Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums, in collaboration with Stephen Addiss, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities-Art, University of Richmond, and Ray Kass, Professor of Art, Emeritus, Virginia Tech. The exhibition is made possible in part with the generous support of the University of Richmond's Cultural Affairs Committee. PROGRAMS (These events are open to the public and free of charge.) "Meet The Artist" Series Workshop |
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