Looking Back, Moving Forward: Success in the Making
January 11—February 17, 2005
An invitational art exhibition Looking Back & Moving Forward: Success in the Making, featured works by alumni of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art. Curated by Clarence Morgan, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, the exhibition showcased 22 alumni, all prominent artists, who have achieved international acclaim for their work in the visual arts.
“The seeds of the University of Minnesota’s strong arts community—a community in which people come from around the world and move on to places like New York and other cities around the world—have been planted for decades at the University,” said Morgan. Looking Back & Moving Forward was a glimpse of the amazing talent and skill that comes out of the University.”
Artists featured in the exhibition included: James Rosenquist, recognized as the founder of the American Pop Art movement; Steven Sorman, painter and printmaker who has had more than 80 one-person exhibitions and participated in over 100 group exhibitions around the world; Australian artist Peter Lowe, an independent documentary producer currently living in Bolivia; Andrew Leicester and Kinji Akagawa, both of whom are recognized internationally for their public art; and New York artist Richard Haas who has completed more than 120 murals.
The artists featured in Looking Back & Moving Forward: Success in the Making have been the recipients of prestigious awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and have received Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, Bush Foundation Fellowships, McKnight Foundation Fellowships, and the Rome Prize Fellowship. Their work is in museum collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Brooklyn Museum, and National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as private collections throughout the United States.
Participating artists included Kinji Akagawa, Steven Andersen, Steven Bigler, Thomas Evans, Rochelle Feinstein, Bill Goldston, Richard Haas, Harmony Hammond, Bill Jensen, Ann Ledy, Andrew Leicester, Peter Lowe, Marjorie Mikasen, Jeff Millikan, Jud Nelson, Stuart Nielsen, Doug Ohlson, James Rosenquist, Marcia Scanlon, Julia Scher, John Schlesinger, Steven Sorman, and Karen Wirth.
