Collection Research Specialist Latin American Art at Princeton University Art Museum
PRINCETON, NJ – The Princeton Academy Art Museum is pleased to announce that Zoe Vocal-Yi Kwok will join the Museum staff equally the Assistant Curator of Asian Art, beginning June 1, 2013. Kwok will be responsible for formulating a collecting strategy; developing gallery installations from the collections; organizing special exhibitions that advance scholarly research, ranging from aggressive touring projects to smaller, more focused exhibitions; researching the Asian art collections; undertaking major object-based research and publication projects; and developing public education programs.
Kwok is currently an offshoot assistant professor in the Section of Art and Fine art History at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College, undertook postgraduate studies at Harvard University, completed a M.A. in the Programme in E Asian Art at Princeton University, and is expected to earn a Ph.D. in art history from Princeton Academy this spring.
"Zoe specializes in early Chinese painting, with a focus on 10th-century pictures of ladies' quarters and banquet scenes in imperial palaces," said Cary Liu, curator of Asian art. "She has too received training in subsequently Chinese painting, Chinese bronzes and decorative arts, and the arts of Japan and other areas of East asia. Zoe comes to us with experience at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and has held internships at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University besides equally the Princeton University Art Museum."
In 2007, Kwok was a Fulbright Scholar in Beijing, China, during which time she also held the position of Condition Assessor for the exhibition Red china at the Courtroom of the Emperors: Unknown Masterpieces from the Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25–907), which was shown at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy, in 2008.
The Princeton Academy Art Museum's collection of Asian art includes diverse materials from China, Japan, Korea, Southeast and Central Asia, and India, dating from Neolithic to present times. The strengths of the collection are in Chinese and Japanese art ranging from Neolithic pottery and jade, ancient ritual statuary vessels, ceramics, lacquerware, metalware, and sculpture to woodblock prints, painting, and calligraphy. In the arts of Prc, the collections of calligraphy and painting rank amidst the finest outside Asia. Calligraphic works range from Buddhist and Daoist scriptures of the Tang dynasty to poems, records, and messages from the Vocal dynasty. Amid the paintings are rare masterpieces from the Vocal and Yuan dynasties as well as numerous examples by later masters. The collection too includes Shang dynasty oracle basic, ancient ritual bronze vessels, ceramic vessels and figurines, Buddhist sculpture, and a rare group of Liao or Jin dynasty painted wooden tomb panels and coffin boards that appointment from the tenth to the thirteenth century. The Museum has the nucleus of a fine collection of Japanese fine art, with works ranging from Jōmon to modern period ceramics, Heian and Kamakura period sculpture, and painting, calligraphy, screens, and woodblock prints from the Heian to the gimmicky period. The elegance of Korean celadon and porcelain ceramics are too displayed. Metal, stone, and terracotta sculptures from Southeast Asia, India, Gandhara, and other Cardinal Asian regions brand information technology possible for the visitor to trace Buddhist sculptural styles from early forms to later developments in East Asia. Works from the drove are exhibited in the Asian galleries on a rotating basis throughout the year.
Please directly prototype requests and full general inquiries to Erin Firestone, ph: 609.258.3767; ef4@princeton.edu .
About the Princeton Academy Art Museum
Founded in 1882, the Princeton Academy Art Museum is 1 of the leading university art museums in the country, with collections of more than 72,000 works of art that range from aboriginal to contemporary art and concentrate geographically on the Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, the Usa, and Latin America.
Committed to advancing Princeton's instruction and inquiry missions, the Fine art Museum serves as a gateway to the University for visitors from around the earth. The Museum is intimate in scale nonetheless expansive in scope, offering a respite from the rush of daily life, a revitalizing experience of extraordinary works of art, and an opportunity to delve securely into the report of fine art and culture.
The Princeton University Fine art Museum is located at the heart of the Princeton campus, a short walk from the shops and restaurants of Nassau Street. Admission is free. Museum hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to five p.m. The Museum is closed Mondays and major holidays.
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