Past Exhibitions

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The Past Is Never Dead: Kristin Casaletto

May 6, 2017 — July 30, 2017


This exhibition showed the work of contemporary Georgia-based artist Kristin Casaletto, primarily her prints

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Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition 2017

April 8, 2017 — May 14, 2017


The annual exit show for the graduating master of fine arts students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art

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Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions

February 18, 2017 — June 4, 2017


This exhibition centered on a selection of block prints produced by Atlanta-based educator and printmaker Michael Ellison (d. 2001)

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Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection

January 28, 2017 — May 7, 2017


This exhibition showcased more than 50 works by important yet underrecognized African American artists in the private collection of Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson

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To Spin a Yarn: Distaffs, Folk Art and Material Culture

January 21, 2017 — April 16, 2017


Organized by the Stephen F. Austin State University Galleries, this exhibition consisted of about 40 decorated wooden distaffs, or spinning implements, from Russia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, Albania, Greece, Serbia and Bosnia

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Advanced and Irascible: Abstract Expressionism from the Collection of Jeanne and Carroll Berry

January 14, 2017 — April 30, 2017


This exhibition showcased Jeanne and Carroll Berry’s efforts to gather one work by each of the so-called “Irascible” painters of abstract expressionism

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Artists of the New York School

January 14, 2017 — March 19, 2017


Containing paintings, sculptures and works on paper, the show highlighted artistic trends of the “New York School”

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Storytelling: The Georgia Review’s 70th Anniversary Art Retrospective

November 5, 2016 — January 29, 2017


In this exhibition, the Georgia Review celebrated the wide-ranging roster of visual artists whose work it has reproduced

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Driving Forces: Sculpture by Lin Emery

October 1, 2016 — April 2, 2017


This exhibition featured kinetic sculptures by the internationally recognized New Orleans artist Lin Emery

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Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883–1950

September 17, 2016 — December 11, 2016


This show featured 42 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American and European artists including Edward Steichen, Joseph Stella, George Luks, Jonas Lie and Georgia O’Keeffe