Exhibitions
On View
Defiant Beauty :The Work of Chakaia Booker
April 28, 2012 - April 28, 2013
Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden
Referred to as a "radial radical," the African American contemporary artist Chakaia Booker used tires as her primary material in constructing these large-scale sculptures on loan from Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y.
Remixing History :Manolo Valdés
April 28, 2012 - April 28, 2013
Performing and Visual Arts Complex, University of Georgia
Born in Spain and currently living and working in New York, Manolo Valdés is known for both paintings and sculptures that refer to Spanish art history through appropriation and simplification of familiar forms.
Southern Folk Art from the Permanent Collection
April 28, 2012 - June 22, 2012
Lamar Dodd Gallery
In conjunction with "John Baeder," this special exhibition will feature works of southern folk art from the permanent collection.
John Baeder
April 28, 2012 - July 22, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox I, Rachel Cosby Conway, Alfred Heber Holbrook and Charles B. Presley Family Galleries
Raised in Atlanta, John Baeder (b. 1938) is best known for his photorealist paintings and prints of mid-century diners. Originally considered mere source material for his paintings, Baeder’s photographs have now emerged as stand-alone works of art.
Performing Identity :Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, and Hannah Wilke
March 21, 2012 - June 10, 2012
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
This series showcases videos of performances dealing with issues of identity by three seminal artists of the 1970s and '80s.
A Divine Light :Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
March 17, 2012 - July 29, 2012
Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries
Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn., and the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery in Greenville, S.C., “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery” and its accompanying catalogue, which have been awarded financial support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, presents 28 works of art from one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the Southeast.
Polly Knipp Hill :Marking a Life Through Etching
April 07, 2012 - June 03, 2012
Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II
American printmaker Polly Knipp Hill began working as an artist in the 1920s and garnered increased recognition in the decades that followed. Although she initially focused on European architecture, in her mature period her broad body of work grew to encompass poignant, amusing and slightly satirical genre scenes that reflected American culture.
Pattern and Palette in Print :Gentry Magazine and a New Generation of Trendsetters
March 17, 2012 - June 17, 2012
Dorothy Alexander Roush and Martha Thompson Dinos Galleries
A collaboration with undergraduate fabric design students at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, this exhibition takes as its inspiration Gentry magazine, a 1950s men’s lifestyle magazine that artfully captured nearly a decade of trends in menswear, with special emphasis on textiles and color.
Permanent Collection
With the completion of Phase II, 13 new galleries now house a significantly larger portion of the Georgia Museum of Art's permanent collection, including many of the 100 American paintings that made up Alfred Heber Holbrook's founding gift, with which the museum first opened its doors in November 1948. Holbrook's vision of permanently exhibiting treasures from the museum's collection is, at last, realized.
All Creatures Great and Small
April 20, 2011 - October 16, 2012
Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
Paintings, sculptures and mixed-media creations by such folk masters as Howard Finster and Mose Tolliver and by such outstanding but relatively unheralded contemporary artists as Jim Lewis and Ted Gordon are on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates.