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SUMMER 2016 NEWSLETTER

EMG (electromyography) measurements of the electric current around the human eye created thisrecently-acquired computerized jacquard loom woven cotton tapestry.Laura Splan, Squint, 2016. Photo: Sasha Charoensub.

COLLECTION

EXPO CHICAGOSEPTEMBER 22-25, 2016The Foundation announces our participation inthis year's EXPO Chicago art fair with a boothfeaturing Daniel Rozin's Selfish Gene Mirror(2015) from the Foundation's Digital Artcollection. In addition our founder, CarlThoma, will be speaking on the "Collecting in theAge of Futurity" panel on Friday, September 23from 12:00-1:00pm. He will be joined by AramMoshayedi, Christiane Paul and AnitaZabludowicz in a conversation moderated byOmar Kholeif. Learn more!

Image: Daniel Rozin, Selfish Gene Mirror, 2015. Video

camera, custom software, computer, screen. Photo

courtesy of the artist.

ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTLAURA SPLAN, SQUINT, 2016Recently acquired by the Foundation, Squint is awork of optical art, in the sense that the textile'spattern records the behaviors of the musclesaround the artist's eye. Imagery in the tapestrywas created as Splan conducted a biometricreading of the electricity levels in the musclesaround her eyes as she squinted, usingelectromyography (EMG). Squint is on loan to"Code & Noise" at Arena 1 in Santa Monica, CA,opening September 10. Read more!

Image: Laura Splan, Squint, 2016 (detail). Computerized

jacquard loom woven cotton tapestry. Photo: Sasha

Charoensub.

EDUCATION

"THE FIRST ROBOT ARTIST" PAMELA MCCORDUCK SPEAKSON HAROLD COHENSaturday, August 6, 2016 2-4p.m.Art House, Santa Fe, NMEnglish artist Harold Cohen (1298-2016) was thefirst artist to create a software program capableof autonomously generating unique paintings anddrawings with human figures, which he calledAaron. A conversation between author PamelaMcCorduck and Foundation curator JasonFoumberg will explore Cohen's life and legacy.Artworks produced by Aaron from theFoundation's collection will be on view during thisevent. Limited seating. Click here to RSVP.

Image: Harold Cohen, Untitled, 1995 (detail). Computer-

generated drawing, in ink and colored fabric dyes, on

paper. Photo: Thomas Machnik.

OLD MASTERS SOCIETY TOURS"DOCTRINE AND DEVOTION"THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOIn late June, members of the Old Masters Societyjoined curator Rebecca Long for a gallery talk onthe exhibition Doctrine and Devotion: Art ofthe Religious Orders in the Spanish Andes at theArt Institute of Chicago. Over 30 OMS membersattended the talk, which emphasized points ofconnection between the art in the Europeangalleries that flank the exhibition as well as thereligious and political context of seventeenth- andeighteenth-century Latin America.

Image: Genealogical Tree of the Mercedarian Order, mid-

18th-century. Oil on canvas.

EXHIBITIONS

"MOUSE IN THE MACHINE:NATURE IN THE AGEOF DIGITAL ART"ART HOUSE, SANTA FE, NMOver 100 visitors joined us at Art House on June18 for the opening of Mouse in the Machine. Theexhibition will be on view through Spring 2017and features 15 digital and software-basedartworks by 12 artists from the Thoma artcollection, such as John Gerrard, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Nam June Paik, and Marina Zurkow.Art House is open Th-Sat, 10-5p.m. Learn more!

Image: Stephen Wilkes, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania,

2015. Archival C-print.

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

ANNOUNCING THE THOMAFOUNDATION RESEARCH FELLOWIN TWENTIETH-CENTURYABSTRACT PAINTINGJENNIFER COHENThis fall the Foundation's Chicago office willwelcome Jennifer Cohen as its first ResearchFellow in Twentieth-Century Abstract Painting. APh.D. Candidate in Art History at the University ofChicago, Jennifer has previously held researchpositions at the Art Institute of ChicagoDepartments of Photography, and ModernEuropean Painting and Sculpture. Read more!

THE ART OF PAINTINGIN COLONIAL BOLIVIATHE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICAThe Foundation has supported The HispanicSociety of America's publication, The Art ofPainting in Colonial Bolivia/El arte de la pinturaen Bolivia colonial, due out in late 2016. Thebilingual volume will be the first majorpublication dedicated to colonial painting inBolivia since 1977 and will include color photos ofpaintings that have never before been published.

Image: Melchor Pérez Holguín, Adoration of the

Shepherds, 1699 (detail). Oil on canvas. Convento de

Santa Teresa, Potosí, Bolivia. Courtesy of The Hispanic

Society of America.

OUR MISSION The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation recognizes the power of the arts to challenge and shiftperceptions, spark creativity and connect people across cultures. We lend and exhibit artworks from our collectionand support innovative individuals and pivotal initiatives in the arts.

www.thomafoundation.org

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