Bonnie Lautenberg Channels the Creative Zeitgeist between Legendary Filmmakers and Iconic Artists: Intuitively Pairing them in “Art Meets Hollywood”
On view now at the Boca Raton Museum of Art until August 21st
The new exhibition “Art Meets Hollywood” is the museum premiere of Bonnie Lautenberg’s new series of digital collages, 28 diptychs pairing scenes from famous films alongside iconic works of art. Lautenberg’s only rule for her experimental process is that both the film and the artwork originated within the same year. On view now at Boca Raton Museum of Art, Lautenberg channels the creative zeitgeist between filmmakers and artists during each year that she intuitively chronicles, starting in 1928 up until 2020. Watch the video here featuring Lautenberg in conversation with Irvin Lippman, the Executive Director of the Museum.
In another work from this series, the terrifying scene she selects from the 1975 movie Jaws literally screams above a Willem De Koning painting that conjures blood spilling into the water (pictured above).
“Lautenberg pulls together visuals she feels speak to each other, taking us along on her colorful trip to explore how these two art forms have amazing parallels and are beautifully paired,” says Irvin Lippman, the museum’s executive director. “Through her careful considerations, she brings to life each moment in time and the spark of creativity these pairings might have shared. Lautenberg possesses a keen eye on the visual elements of humanity and culture that arise. The brilliance of these juxtapositions is how she illuminates the psychological connections between each film scene and artwork,” adds Lippman.
“Throughout art history, artists have always been influenced by some force going on in the world around them. I started thinking about how artists who work in different art forms might have influenced each other. I decided to explore how one art form can influence another,” says the artist Bonnie Lautenberg.
This new exhibition in South Florida, Art Meets Hollywood, opened at the Boca Raton Museum of Art concurrently with another celebration of films and artmaking, Art of the Hollywood Backdrop: Cinema’s Creative Legacy. Both shows together at the Museum are a dream come true for cinephiles.
Rave Reviews for Bonnie Lautenberg: Art Meets Hollywood
“The connections are often witty but are invariably imaginative” . . . “Lautenberg’s series is beyond clever; it also captures a synergistic zeitgeist — conscious or unconscious — between artists and filmmakers. If we’re lucky, we’ll be gifted with a Lautenberg mash-up for every year motion pictures have existed.” ― John Thomason, Boca Raton Magazine
“Lautenberg gets top marks for detecting connections we can only see in hindsight” . . . “Ms. Lautenberg has an intuitive process involving images that talk to each other. She plays matchmaker to the symbiotic relationships” . . . “The power of each frame remains in the connection shared by both.” ― Gretel Sarmiento, Palm Beach Florida Weekly
About the Artist
Bonnie Lautenberg is an esteemed artist, photographer and writer. Her work was recently shown at the Jean Albano Gallery
in Chicago, and at David Benrimon Fine Art in New York, in the show Rethinking America alongside works by Warhol,
Lichtenstein, Longo, Kass, and Ed Ruscha. To view her artworks and photography, visit BonnieLautenberg.com where
the artist showcases images she has taken in Israel, Antarctica, Cuba, and around the world for the past 25 years.
About the Boca Raton Museum of Art
Founded by artists, Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The
organization has grown, now in its eighth decade, to encompass a Museum, Art School, and Sculpture Garden. As one of
South Florida’s leading cultural landmarks, the Museum provides educational programs and a robust exhibition schedule
to the community, and to visitors from around the world. Support for #BocaMuseumatHome and #KeepKidsSmartwithArt
virtual programming is provided by Art Bridges Foundation and PNC Grow Up Great.
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