6 chazen museum of art exhibitions
Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student
April 28 – June 25, 2017
Oscar F. and Louise Greiner Mayer Gallery
Samurai: The Way of the Warrior
Spring – Summer 2017
Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries
The 2017 Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student winner is Alex Orellanos. The prize is offered by the Museum in collaboration with the art department; an outside juror selects the winner. This year’ s juror is curator, author, and lecturer Brooke Davis Anderson, the executive director of Prospect New Orleans. Anderson held positions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Folk Art Museum, and other galleries and universities before joining Prospect New Orleans in 2013. Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial of international contemporary art that presents the work of diverse local, national, and international artists in unique and culturally exceptional venues.
This exhibition includes over ninety works from the collection of the Museo Stibbert in Florence, Italy, one of the most important collections of Japanese arms and armor outside of Japan. Revealing how the moral, cultural, and aesthetic codes of the military class were manifested in the styles and craftsmanship of Japanese artisans, the objects on display include armor, lacquered objects, helmets, swords, sword guards, saddles, stirrups, arrows, quivers, and bows. They reflect the identity, taste, and status of individual owners, and together provide a novel perspective on one of the great antiquarian assemblages of nineteenth-century Europe.
Myochin Yasutsugu(?)( Japanese), Suit of Armor, mid-18th century, steel, shakudo, gilded copper, brass, horn, lacquer, silk, silk brocade, Museo Stibbert, Firenze