SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from the collection of Michael O. and Sirje Helder Gold.
The gift includes works created in the 1990s and 2000s by a diverse group of leading and emerging artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Sean Duffy, Naomi Fisher, Iva Gueorguieva, Michelle Grabner, Carol Hepper, Steve Roden, Jonathan Seliger, Glen Seator, George Stoll, Beverly Semmes, and Barbara Takenaga.
The Golds are prominent art collectors who have lived in New York City and Los Angeles, and are known for championing the work of younger artists. Many of the paintings, photographs, and sculptures included in their gift are by artists from the West Coast and represent the Tang’s first acquisition from their oeuvre. Other works were created by artists who have been featured in exhibitions across the Tang’s twenty-year exhibition history. The gift will introduce many of these artists to new audiences, and the additions to the Tang’s growing collection will provide valuable opportunities for research and study by students and scholars from a variety of disciplines.
Now celebrating its 20th anniversary year, the Tang Teaching Museum has grown its collection to more than 16,000 objects. Numerous works from the Tang collection, including works from the Golds’ gift, are on view during its twentieth anniversary year. Energy in All Directions (through June 13) brings rarely seen artworks and new acquisitions from The Tang Teaching Museum collection together in dialogue with objects from the Shaker Museum’s extensive holdings to celebrate the life and legacy of artist and gallerist Hudson (1950–2014); Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics (though June 6) features work by 100 women and non-binary artists as a way of exploring the advances women have made, and still have to make, in the century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment; We’ve Only Just Begun: 100 Years of Skidmore Women in Politics (online through June 6), a companion exhibition to Never Done explores Skidmore archives to tell the stories of Skidmore women and their involvement in politics; and Nicole Cherubini: Shaking the Trees (through Sept. 11), an installation builds upon the artist’s longstanding exploration of the history of objects and space, and will juxtapose ceramic tiling, modular seating, sculpture, and works from the Tang Teaching Museum’s collection.
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of interdisciplinary exploration and learning. The Tang building is closed to the public, due to the coronavirus, but is open online. For updates, please visit tang.skidmore.edu
