‘Amazing Stories’ Exhibition Highlights New Contemporary Collection Additions at Palmer Museum

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened its second exhibition for the season, ‘Amazing Stories: Recent Acquisitions,’ on Jan. 12. The show features a diverse range of contemporary works recently acquired by the museum.

“The impulse to tell stories can be witnessed throughout history and across cultures,” said Palmer assistant director Joyce Robinson, who curated the exhibition. “Despite the rejection of narrative content in much of the avant-garde art of the last century, the last 40 years have seen a resurgence of interest in figurative art and storytelling.”

Many of the narratives in the exhibition speak to current day socio-political realities even as they acknowledge distant family lore and historical truths. Past and present tense merge in these visual chronicles by an impressive roster of contemporary artists seeking, above all else, to tell us their remarkable stories.

Artists featured in the show include Claudia Bernardi, Squeak Carnwath, Enrique Chagoya, Francesco Clemente, Sue Coe, Claudio Dicochea, Leonor Fini, Anthony Peter Gorny, Hung Liu, Jacob Meders, Jenny Morgan, Mimmo Paladino, Ramiro Rodriguez, Roger Shimomura, Rufino Tamayo, Maria Tomasula, Vincent Valdez and Matika Wilbur.

‘Amazing Stories’ closes on May 26.

RELATED PROGRAMMING

GALLERY TALK
‘Amazing Stories: Recent Acquisitions’
Joyce Robinson, Assistant Director
Friday, March 15, 12:10 p.m.