UC DAVIS TO OPEN NEW ART MUSEUM
UC Davis will be inaugurating a new museum of art, designed by architects SO–IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Called the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, the exhibition space will open on November 13, and will feature a signature fifty-thousand-square-foot canopy of perforated triangular beams made from aluminum.
Museum officials noted that the department of art at UC Davis, at the outset, hired artists including Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley. They taught an interdisciplinary approach to art that produced students ranging from Bruce Nauman to Deborah Butterfield.
“Sixty years ago, the department of art at UC Davis emerged on the scene as an incubator for new talent,” says Rachel Teagle, the museum’s founding director.
The new venue’s inaugural show will feature work by Arneson, William T. Wiley, Manuel Neri, Roland Petersen, De Forest, Wayne Thiebaud, and Ruth Horsting, among many others.
