Past Exhibitions

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The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design

October 17, 2020 — January 3, 2021


This exhibition, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville and the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation, presents a survey of exceptional American chair design from the early 19th century to the present day.

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The Seated Child: Early Children’s Chairs from Georgia Collections

October 17, 2020 — January 3, 2021


This exhibition will present about two dozen children’s chairs as well as a doll’s chair and adult chairs for comparison of scale and style

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Sarah Cameron Sunde: 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea

September 19, 2020 — January 17, 2021


“36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea” is a series of nine site-specific participatory performances and video works by the interdisciplinary artist Sarah Cameron Sunde, spanning six continents and seven years

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Carl Holty: Romantic Modernist

August 29, 2020 — January 17, 2021


This exhibition of paintings and drawings reflects Holty’s personal pursuit of modern art theory, much of which focused on color as one of his essential building blocks.

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Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath in the Art of Rolland Golden

August 22, 2020 — November 1, 2020


As the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, this exhibition presents works Rolland Golden created in its aftermath. These paintings and drawings, some of the last work Golden made, document the devastation of the storm and focus on the traumatic experiences of New Orleanians.

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In Dialogue: Cecilia Beaux’s “Twilight Confidences”

February 28, 2020 — January 31, 2021


A look in detail at Cecilia Beaux’s “Twilight Confidences” — an important recent addition to the museum’s collection and the artist’s first major exercise in plein-air painting

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Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection

February 1, 2020 — September 6, 2020


A celebration of beauty, “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection” features more than 60 objects, spanning over 30 years of Tiffany’s prolific career.

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Kevin Cole: Soul Ties

January 25, 2020 — April 19, 2020


Three-dimensional wooden and metal constructions by the Atlanta-based painter and mixed-media artist

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Reflecting on Rembrandt: 500 Years of Etching

January 18, 2020 — April 19, 2020


For the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn, this exhibition of prints selected and created by students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art commemorates the artist’s profound impact

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Master, Pupil, Follower: 16th- to 18th-Century Italian Works on Paper

December 21, 2019 — March 8, 2020


Approximately 30 drawings and prints from the collections of Giuliano Ceseri, the Georgia Museum of Art and the Jeffrey Horvitz Collection