Past Exhibitions

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Man’s Canyons: New York City on Paper

September 17, 2016 — December 31, 2016


This small exhibition of works from the museum’s permanent collection ran concurrently with the exhibition “Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883–1950” and showed scenes of New York City in the same time period.

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Living Color: Gary Hudson in the 1970s

September 17, 2016 — January 8, 2017


This exhibition showcased the 1970s work of painter Gary Hudson, who was associated with the lyrical abstraction movement

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Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects

September 3, 2016 — December 31, 2016


This exhibition of exquisite objects from a private collection showed how the Romanov family of Russian rulers commissioned, used and distributed gifts to solidify its hold on power

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Recent: Acquisitions

July 16, 2016 — October 9, 2016


“Recent: Acquisitions” included more than two dozen works of art in a variety of media: works on paper, decorative arts, works on canvas and a neon light sculpture by Nils Folke Anderson.

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Paper in Profile: Mixografia and Taller de Gráfica Mexicana

June 4, 2016 — August 21, 2016


This exhibition offered an engaging survey of international contemporary art and some of its modernist precursors framed within the compelling history of Mixografia, the collaborative printmaking and sculptural multiples workshop

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Turned and Sculpted: Wood Art from the Collection of Arthur and Jane Mason

May 14, 2016 — August 7, 2016


These objects, a gift to the museum, constitute a comprehensive collection of examples by the foremost wood artists working in the United States

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Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition 2016

April 9, 2016 — May 1, 2016


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

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Frank Hartley Anderson: Forging the Southern Printmakers Society

March 26, 2016 — June 19, 2016


This exhibition celebrated the Southern Printmakers Society, a group founded by Frank Hartley Anderson in the 1930s

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VolvoxLabs: Refining Realities

March 17, 2016 — June 19, 2016


Real-time data activated the movement of light alongside panels while digital visualizations created a moving architectural landscape in an immersive triptych

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David Ligare: California Classicist

February 13, 2016 — May 8, 2016


A retrospective exhibition of self-proclaimed classicist David Ligare (b. 1945), organized by the Crocker Art Museum of Sacramento, California