The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington N.C. began life in downtown Wilmington in a Masonic building, but then moved to its current location many years ago. The museum is bright and comfortable, and established a reputation for exhibiting modern art. It still does that but modern art need not mean abstract art. You don’t need to immediately think of Mondrian or Kandinsky. This particular exhibit has a variety of interesting things to see, as the next few posts will attest. One of the facets of modern art is to try new mediums that aren’t traditionally used, for example this statue of two dancers is made out of corrugated cardboard.
This is the work of James Grashow in 2014.
Japanese death or life masks can be quite interesting. Here are four of them.
Another interesting form of art is carving human faces into pre-existing pieces of stone, with the faces simply becoming a feature of the rock itself. In other words, the excess stone is not carved away.
Or consider this one— hanging from the ceiling.
These are also the work of a Japanese artist, Hiroshi Sueyoshi.
Bob Troutman created the following in 2020 and called it Grab. Of course it is reminiscent of the scene in the Sistine Chapel of God reaching out and touching the hand of Adam. Troutman says “I see my efforts in relation to the vernacular traditions of carved religious figures.” He goes on to stress that he is using this particular exhibit to critique the efforts of Americans who are all about grabbing money and power, or “the degrading effects of corporate capitalism on politics and society.”
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