Five Tables is a monthly event coinciding with First Free Thursdays organized by the BAMPFA staff, and periodically by the Student Committee. Drop by the Florence Helzel Works on Paper Study Center for a curated behind-the-scenes experience.
Read full descriptionLooking back at the history of images, there is a vast array of objects and meanings embedded in what we hold in our hands. Works on view include: a 1636 engraving featuring Prince Thomas of Saboye-Carignang, a mezzotint of Queen Elizabeth I from 1816, a seventeenth-century Chinese hanging scroll, and more.
Works on view include Japanese prints featuring the bold nesting boxes crest of the Ichikawa family of Kabuki actors; Albrecht Dürer’s distinctive mark, placed on engravings such as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; now-nostalgic commercial logos, like the Pegasus symbol in Elaine Mayes’s mistily radiant roadside photograph; and more.
A showcase of different interpretations of spring, with works by Pan Gongkai, Ronald Iliardo, Hans Werner Kalkmann, and many others chosen by the BAMPFA Student Committee.
This month’s Five Tables display features political posters, landscape scrolls, conceptual correspondence, and more—all in the color red.
This month’s Five Tables display brings together mezzotints and atmospheric photographs that highlight the theme of shadows.