MONROE - Monroe Arts Center will host the exhibition titled "The Art of Pedro E. Guerrero: Photographs of Calder, Nevelson, Wright and Others" from Friday, July 6 through Friday, Aug. 31 at the Frehner Gallery at the MAC, 1315 11th St.
The opening reception is from 5 to 7 p.m. July 6. There will be an interview of the artist at 5:30 p.m., and the Monroe Mayor Bill Ross will read a proclamation honoring Pedro E. Guerrero.
"We in Wisconsin have had access to Guerrero's work of Wright for almost two decades," said Richard Daniels, executive director of the Monroe Arts Center. "Now, with this exhibit, we will have access to his work of other significant American artists and architects."
Guerrero is among the upper echelon of American photographers of the 20th century - an American Master. This retrospective of Guerrero's art includes 22 photographs, some never before exhibited, and will run through August 31.
Guerrero has photographed some of the most illustrious American architects and artists of the twentieth century. He began his professional career in 1939 photographing Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Taliesin in Spring Green. For the next 20 years, he became the chief visual interpreter of Frank Lloyd Wright and his works. He also photographed Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson and their work, as well as Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone and others.
Guerrero had a long and highly successful commercial career with Condé Nast's magazines, such as "House & Garden" and "Vogue." His photographs have been published in the monographs "Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder;" "Louise Nevelson: Atmosphere and Environments;" "Nevelson's World; Picturing Wright: An Album from Frank Lloyd Wright's Photographer;" and in his autobiography "Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographers Journey with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson."
His photographs also appear in numerous documentaries, including Ken Burns' Florentine Film documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, among others. Most recently, the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury University in Los Angeles organized a retrospective of Guerrero's photographs on 20th century architecture.
"We can see why America's greatest architect favored Guerrero, for no photographer has better understood how Wright integrated his buildings into their natural settings," said Martin Filler, long-time architecture critic for "House & Garden," responding to the L.A. exhibit.
"Resigned to the compromising realities of commercial magazine work, Guerrero from his sixties onward turned to the documentation of the two artists he most admired after Wright: Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson, whose workplaces he exhaustively photographed, the basis for superlative monographs," Filler added.
Jean Lipman, founding editor of Art in America, said, "Guerrero has a very warm and living relationship with the artists he photographs. He is magnificent. He doesn't just go and take official-looking photographs. He's with the artist; he understands them; and he's right at the heart of what their work is about."
A permanent exhibition of 62 Guerrero photographs of Wright and his work has been on display at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison since its opening in 1997 and, prior to that, at a Wisconsin Academy exhibition in 1993 in conjunction with the premiere of the opera on Wright titled "Shining Brow."
This MAC exhibition is underwritten by Michael and Shelley Muranyi; John and Mary Frantz; Pete Guenther and Barb Woodriff; Lee and Chris Knuteson, and the members of the Monroe Arts Center.
More information is available by contacting MAC at (608) 325-5700 or (888) 596-1249 or visiting www.monroeartscenter.com.
The opening reception is from 5 to 7 p.m. July 6. There will be an interview of the artist at 5:30 p.m., and the Monroe Mayor Bill Ross will read a proclamation honoring Pedro E. Guerrero.
"We in Wisconsin have had access to Guerrero's work of Wright for almost two decades," said Richard Daniels, executive director of the Monroe Arts Center. "Now, with this exhibit, we will have access to his work of other significant American artists and architects."
Guerrero is among the upper echelon of American photographers of the 20th century - an American Master. This retrospective of Guerrero's art includes 22 photographs, some never before exhibited, and will run through August 31.
Guerrero has photographed some of the most illustrious American architects and artists of the twentieth century. He began his professional career in 1939 photographing Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Taliesin in Spring Green. For the next 20 years, he became the chief visual interpreter of Frank Lloyd Wright and his works. He also photographed Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson and their work, as well as Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone and others.
Guerrero had a long and highly successful commercial career with Condé Nast's magazines, such as "House & Garden" and "Vogue." His photographs have been published in the monographs "Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder;" "Louise Nevelson: Atmosphere and Environments;" "Nevelson's World; Picturing Wright: An Album from Frank Lloyd Wright's Photographer;" and in his autobiography "Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographers Journey with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson."
His photographs also appear in numerous documentaries, including Ken Burns' Florentine Film documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, among others. Most recently, the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury University in Los Angeles organized a retrospective of Guerrero's photographs on 20th century architecture.
"We can see why America's greatest architect favored Guerrero, for no photographer has better understood how Wright integrated his buildings into their natural settings," said Martin Filler, long-time architecture critic for "House & Garden," responding to the L.A. exhibit.
"Resigned to the compromising realities of commercial magazine work, Guerrero from his sixties onward turned to the documentation of the two artists he most admired after Wright: Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson, whose workplaces he exhaustively photographed, the basis for superlative monographs," Filler added.
Jean Lipman, founding editor of Art in America, said, "Guerrero has a very warm and living relationship with the artists he photographs. He is magnificent. He doesn't just go and take official-looking photographs. He's with the artist; he understands them; and he's right at the heart of what their work is about."
A permanent exhibition of 62 Guerrero photographs of Wright and his work has been on display at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison since its opening in 1997 and, prior to that, at a Wisconsin Academy exhibition in 1993 in conjunction with the premiere of the opera on Wright titled "Shining Brow."
This MAC exhibition is underwritten by Michael and Shelley Muranyi; John and Mary Frantz; Pete Guenther and Barb Woodriff; Lee and Chris Knuteson, and the members of the Monroe Arts Center.
More information is available by contacting MAC at (608) 325-5700 or (888) 596-1249 or visiting www.monroeartscenter.com.