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A Living Legacy: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art


A Living Legacy marks the Frye’s seventieth anniversary, bringing together eight artworks—all acquired in 2022 and on view at the museum for the first time—by Amoako Boafo, Sky Hopinka, Gisela McDaniel, Bony Ramirez, Tschabalala Self, Ann Leda Shapiro, and Sadie Wechsler. Ranging from altered photographs to mixed-media assemblages, the works expand or complicate narratives around genres such as landscape and portraiture traditionally associated with the Frye’s Founding Collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art.

Image of Three Slices
Three Slices

Amoako Boafo
Oil on canvas
2021

Image of Free me from this body, my voice can carry only so far. Free me from this body, as I lay on the grass it feels heavy and I can't move. Free me from this body, the color burns brown with dark limbs so tired and missing the weightless breadth of above
Free me from this body, my voice can carry only so far. Free me from this body, as I lay on the grass it feels heavy and I can't move. Free me from this body, the color burns brown with dark limbs so tired and missing the weightless breadth of above

Sky Hopinka
Inkjet print on Dibond
2020

Image of Mangahufo' I famaguon
Mangahufo' I famaguon

Gisela McDaniel
Oil on panel, found objects, sound
2021

Image of Butterfly
Butterfly

Bony Ramirez
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, metal chain, dried coconuts
2021

Image of Black Face Red Bone with Black Bob
Black Face Red Bone with Black Bob

Tschabalala Self
Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print
2021

Image of Black Face with Wide Chest
Black Face with Wide Chest

Tschabalala Self
Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print
2021

Image of Night Forest
Night Forest

Ann Leda Shapiro
Watercolor and watercolor pencil on archival paper
2022

Image of Madrone + Mullan
Madrone + Mullan

Sadie Wechsler
Archival inkjet print in madrone artist's frame
2021