Upcoming Exhibitions
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s
January 14–April 4, 2020
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s traces the emergence and development of abstraction in the Arab World through paintings and sculpture dating from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography
April 21–July 11, 2020
Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography rediscovers and celebrates the work of a pioneering and radical American artist. Anne Brigman (1869–1950)—a photographer, poet, and mountaineer—is best known for her iconic landscape images from the early 1900s, which depict herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.
Americans in Paris: Artists in the City of Light, 1946–1962 (working title)
Fall 2021
Proposing an alternative reading of the mid-century international art scene, Americans in Paris: Artists in the City of Light, 1946–1965 features works by visual artists who rejected the intense nationalism that arose in the U.S. in the 1950s.