{"id":1100,"date":"2006-03-12T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2006-03-12T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T14:56:00","slug":"beverly-mciver-to-nc-museum-of-art-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/beverly-mciver-to-nc-museum-of-art-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly McIver to NC Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Tyndall  of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyndallgalleries.com\/\">Tyndall Galleries<\/a> writes that <a href=\"http:\/\/ncartmuseum.org\/\">the North Carolina Museum of Art<\/a> has recently acquired the triptych Reminiscing by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyndallgalleries.com\/pages\/beverlymciver_1.php\">Beverly McIver<\/a> (I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=241\">a little about McIver&#8217;s show at Jane&#8217;s gallery last year<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Jane who quotes <em>Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art<\/em>, March\/April 2006:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Museum has recently acquired several new works of art that expand the scope and diversity of the 20th century and contemporary collections and also reflect the global, cross-cultural dialogue taking place in the art<br \/>\nworld today. The new pieces include painting, photography and sculpture by nationally and internationally known artists and artists with North Carolina connections.   &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beverly McIver grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, and now lives in Arizona.  Since the early 1990s, she has examined racial stereotypes in an ongoing series of expressionist self-portraits.  The paintings deal with her African American identity and how she perceives her role in a society that historically has marginalized minorities and women.  Often McIver paints herself in blackface &#8211; a reference to her childhood desire to become a professional clown, and also a way to confront and reclaim stereotypes head-on by changing the conventional clown white-face to black.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reminiscing, a self-portrait in triplicate, reveals its subject from three different vantage points &#8211; she stares off into the distance, looks down with despondence and then turns her head to the side, never meeting the viewer&#8217;s<br \/>\ngaze.  Failing to tuck her hair up under her wig and exposing her emotional disarray, McIver paints a woman disheveled in appearance and in mood.  This portrayal shows McIver striving to come to terms with her mother&#8217;s recent death.  Without emphasizing it, the artist has again painted herself in<br \/>\nblackface, for she is rarely out of character, even at times of personal mourning.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Tyndall of Tyndall Galleries writes that the North Carolina Museum of Art has recently acquired the triptych Reminiscing by Beverly McIver (I wrote a little about McIver&#8217;s show at Jane&#8217;s gallery last year). Quoting Jane who quotes Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art, March\/April 2006: &#8220;The Museum has recently acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}