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This retrospective is a way of honoring Jane Catlin’s career as an artist and teacher which has lasted more than forty years.
Jane Catlin: A Retrospective
February 8 - July 20, 2024
This retrospective is a way of honoring Jane Catlin’s career as an artist and teacher which has lasted more than forty years.
Perhaps the most important collectors of contemporary art in Logan, Utah, David and Terry Peak have been collecting since 1996.
Perception and Abstraction
January 27 – June 15, 2024
Perhaps the most important collectors of contemporary art in Logan, Utah, David and Terry Peak have been collecting since 1996.
Women's Work showcases works of art created by female artists that have recently entered the NEHMA collection.
Women's Work: New Additions to the NEHMA Collection
January 27 – July 20, 2024
Women's Work showcases works of art created by female artists that have recently entered the NEHMA collection.
Facing Fire features work by twelve artists who bring us photographs, paintings, ceramics and video as they face fire in the West, sift its aftermath and struggle with the implications.
Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire and the End of Nature in the New West
July 8 - December 13, 2023
Facing Fire features work by twelve artists who bring us photographs, paintings, ceramics and video as they face fire in the West, sift its aftermath and struggle with the implications.
The exhibition The Squares and the Beats: The Lane Gift playfully explores American values from the 1950s and 1960s through works of art by Jeremy Anderson, Sidney Gordon, Knud Merrild, John Bernhardt, George Herms, and G
The Squares and the Beats: The Lane Gift
January 28 - May 6, 2023
The exhibition The Squares and the Beats: The Lane Gift playfully explores American values from the 1950s and 1960s through works of art by Jeremy Anderson, Sidney Gordon, Knud Merrild, John Bernhardt, George Herms, and G...
An exhibition featuring approximately 292 ceramic works of art in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) collection of 1500 ceramics.
Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It
August 30, 2022 - April 22, 2024
An exhibition featuring approximately 292 ceramic works of art in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) collection of 1500 ceramics.
ARTH 3295: USU Student Online Exhibitions
May 2 - August 20, 2022In the spring semester of 2022, students enrolled in ARTH 3295 at Utah State University were tasked with curating their own virtual exhibitions. ARTH 3295 is an art history course on the art of Americans of Latin American ...
Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power is a survey of works from Rebecca Campbell’s prodigious output over the past fifteen years, focusing on the agency she gives the young and adult women in her paintings.
Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power
April 22 - December 17, 2022
Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power is a survey of works from Rebecca Campbell’s prodigious output over the past fifteen years, focusing on the agency she gives the young and adult women in her paintings.
Bibhu Mohapatra
March 22 - April 2, 2022Bibhu Mohapatra grew up in Odisha on the east coast of India and moved to the United States in 1996. His years growing up in Odisha formed the expanding spirit of everything he sees and creates.
The focus of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art collection in on twentieth and twenty-first century art of the western United States. It consists of over 5,500 objects with large concentrations of paintings, scu
Looking Backward & Forward: Forty Years with NEHMA & What’s Next
February 5, 2022 - May 6, 2023
The focus of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art collection in on twentieth and twenty-first century art of the western United States. It consists of over 5,500 objects with large concentrations of paintings, scu...
In 2020, collectors Driek and Michael Zirinsky gifted 19 works of contemporary art to the NEHMA collection. The Zirinskys, who began collecting more than 40 years ago while in graduate school, and are among the most impo
The Driek & Michael Zirinsky Gift
January 29 - July 9, 2022
In 2020, collectors Driek and Michael Zirinsky gifted 19 works of contemporary art to the NEHMA collection. The Zirinskys, who began collecting more than 40 years ago while in graduate school, and are among the most impo...
In thinking about choosing items from the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum collection for this case, I mused on the most exciting museum experiences I have had.
Forty-Three Teapots and One Mug
January 4 - May 7, 2022
In thinking about choosing items from the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum collection for this case, I mused on the most exciting museum experiences I have had.
American artist Jean Lowe’s (b. 1960) work revolves around the intersection of popular culture, environmentalism, commerce, politics, and art history.
Your Place in the Multiverse
June 19 - December 12, 2021
American artist Jean Lowe’s (b. 1960) work revolves around the intersection of popular culture, environmentalism, commerce, politics, and art history.
American Farmer
January 28 - May 8, 2021American Farmer celebrates the living spirit of our heartland through the faces and voices of the people who keep it alive.
Three Depression-Era Photographers in Utah
January 28 - May 8, 2021Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Arthur Rothstein are the three photographers who were hired by the Farm Security Administration to document rural Utah in the late 1930s.
Barns, Cows, Tractors, Horses, Hay & Farmers
January 28 - May 8, 2021While not traditionally thought of as subjects for art, farming and agricultural scenes can portray an intriguing story about nature and humanity. Celebrating agriculture through art, Barns, Cows, Tractors, Horses, Hay, a...
NEHMA has adapted the Junior Curators program into an online experience. This online experience can accommodate in-school or at-home learning.
Junior Curators: "Look for the Good" Virtual Exhibitions by Spring Creek Middle School Students
December 18, 2020 - February 26, 2021
NEHMA has adapted the Junior Curators program into an online experience. This online experience can accommodate in-school or at-home learning.
Unmasking Creativity features artistic expressions and written experiences by middle and high school students in response to the current pandemic.
Unmasking Creativity: Giving a Voice to Utah Youth
November 14 - December 19, 2020
Unmasking Creativity features artistic expressions and written experiences by middle and high school students in response to the current pandemic.
Hand-built showcases works made partially or entirely off of the potter’s wheel. Often, when thinking of ceramic art and craft, the first thing that comes to mind is pottery: functional wheel-thrown vessels.
Hand-built
October 20, 2020 - March 1, 2022
Hand-built showcases works made partially or entirely off of the potter’s wheel. Often, when thinking of ceramic art and craft, the first thing that comes to mind is pottery: functional wheel-thrown vessels.
Drawn exclusively from the Museum collection, Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction endeavors to look beyond typical art historical boundaries and to begin to lay claim to a more holistic and complex view of art histor
Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction
August 25, 2020 - July 9, 2022
Drawn exclusively from the Museum collection, Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction endeavors to look beyond typical art historical boundaries and to begin to lay claim to a more holistic and complex view of art histor...
African American Art, Social Justice and Identity; Works by Black Artists from the NEHMA Collection
August 25, 2020 - December 4, 2021African American Art, Social Justice and Identity addresses Black identity in the United States through works of art by ten African American artists and ephemera from collectives including the Black Panthers, sp...
Our new reality is profoundly different than it was six months ago. The 2020 pandemic, COVID-19, has swept the world, and in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, we have seen unprecedented civil unrest calling for racial
The Day After Tomorrow: Art in Response to Turmoil and Hope
July 1 - December 19, 2020
Our new reality is profoundly different than it was six months ago. The 2020 pandemic, COVID-19, has swept the world, and in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, we have seen unprecedented civil unrest calling for racial ...
Due to school closures related to COVID-19, NEHMA adapted the Junior Curators program into an online experience. Despite not being able to visit NEHMA in person, students can learn about curation and find inspiration from t
Junior Curators: "Stand For Something"
May 20 - July 31, 2020
Due to school closures related to COVID-19, NEHMA adapted the Junior Curators program into an online experience. Despite not being able to visit NEHMA in person, students can learn about curation and find inspiration from t...
During Spring 2020 Semester, FCSE 3040 Advanced Clothing Studies: Patternmaking students at Utah State University were challenged to create a half-scale fashion inspired by artwork on view at the Nora Eccles Harrison Muse
FCSE 3040 - Patternmaking
April 20 - June 30, 2020
During Spring 2020 Semester, FCSE 3040 Advanced Clothing Studies: Patternmaking students at Utah State University were challenged to create a half-scale fashion inspired by artwork on view at the Nora Eccles Harrison Muse...
Chris Terry, On Sabbatical
April 17 - June 21, 2020Artist and professor Chris Terry has lived, worked and taught at Utah State University for 31 years. Chris Terry, On Sabbatical features work that he created during four sabbaticals (1994–95, 2000–01, 2008–09, 2017–18) th...
Are you staying at home but wishing you could visit the Museum? Wander through NEHMA online! Click the links below to virtually enter current and past exhibitions.
Virtual Tours of NEHMA
April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022
Are you staying at home but wishing you could visit the Museum? Wander through NEHMA online! Click the links below to virtually enter current and past exhibitions.
Created in 2011, the USU Sculpture Walk showcases the 46 public sculptures across Utah State University's campus. Start at the Museum and enjoy the mix of traditional and modern sculptures while you stroll, power wal
USU Sculpture Walk
April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022
Created in 2011, the USU Sculpture Walk showcases the 46 public sculptures across Utah State University's campus. Start at the Museum and enjoy the mix of traditional and modern sculptures while you stroll, power wal...
Thomas Campbell (born 1969) is a media maestro who parlays his ideas, thoughts, and feelings about the fringes of contemporary American culture into eloquent and romantic narratives.
Thomas Campbell: Lint basket supremeo + Unii ciøn yyikæ
January 25 - May 2, 2020
Thomas Campbell (born 1969) is a media maestro who parlays his ideas, thoughts, and feelings about the fringes of contemporary American culture into eloquent and romantic narratives.
Particle & Wave: Paperclay Illuminated features forty-five artists from across the world who incorporate paper pulp and organic fibers into their clay.
Particle & Wave: Paperclay Illuminated
January 25 - May 2, 2020
Particle & Wave: Paperclay Illuminated features forty-five artists from across the world who incorporate paper pulp and organic fibers into their clay.
ARTH 3320 - The Art of Latin America
December 16, 2019 - July 31, 2020In the fall semester of 2019, students enrolled in ARTH 3320 at Utah State University were tasked with curating their own virtual exhibitions. ARTH 3320 is an art history course on the art of Latin America.
On November 21 at 7 PM visiting Beat artist and poet Gerd Stern will speak for approximately 20 minutes at the opening reception.
Heart Beats
November 21, 2019 - February 1, 2020
On November 21 at 7 PM visiting Beat artist and poet Gerd Stern will speak for approximately 20 minutes at the opening reception.
David Maisel Proving Ground
September 14 - December 14, 2019In a remote region of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, a classified military site called Dugway Proving Ground remains largely hidden from public view, closed to civilians and rarely seen in the media.
Sky Above, Earth Below traces the development of western landscape photography from the late 19th century to the 21st century will start with early American photographers like Myra Albert Wiggins, Edward Curtis
Sky Above, Earth Below: A History of Western Landscape Photography
September 14, 2019 - August 1, 2020
Sky Above, Earth Below traces the development of western landscape photography from the late 19th century to the 21st century will start with early American photographers like Myra Albert Wiggins, Edward Curtis...
Traditionally, identity is formulated via a process of exclusion. It is not about who you are; it is about who you are not. Latinx proposes inclusivity as the point of departure, open to fluid and diverse factors
Latinx from the NEHMA Collection
August 24, 2019 - August 1, 2020
Traditionally, identity is formulated via a process of exclusion. It is not about who you are; it is about who you are not. Latinx proposes inclusivity as the point of departure, open to fluid and diverse factors ...
Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s Haiga Portfolio, 1966-1967, is an example of the artist’s most pronounced blending of Eastern and Western influences.
Haikus, Modernism and Stanton Macdonald-Wright
August 24, 2019 - April 4, 2020
Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s Haiga Portfolio, 1966-1967, is an example of the artist’s most pronounced blending of Eastern and Western influences.
Collecting On The Edge
September 15, 2018 - July 31, 2019 Modern and contemporary art created in the American West, manifesting an independent spirit and embodying unique ideas, has been largely written out of the mainstream narrative of art history or placed in unhe...
The Work in Progress is a collage-style mural that provides a stunning visualization of the impact of women on our society. It is a community project and the brainchild of Jann Haworth.
Work in Progress USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Lower Level
January 16 - March 29, 2018
The Work in Progress is a collage-style mural that provides a stunning visualization of the impact of women on our society. It is a community project and the brainchild of Jann Haworth.
Drawing upon NEHMA’s important collection of twentieth century ceramic objects, Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West examines the significant contributions of potters who taught in universities
Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West
August 17 - December 10, 2016
Drawing upon NEHMA’s important collection of twentieth century ceramic objects, Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West examines the significant contributions of potters who taught in universities ...
Recent Additions to the NEHMA Collection showcases a select group of artworks the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) has acquired for its collection in 2015 and 2016.
Recent Additions to the NEHMA Collection
June 1 - December 10, 2016
Recent Additions to the NEHMA Collection showcases a select group of artworks the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) has acquired for its collection in 2015 and 2016.
Growing West is organized by students from the USU Honors Think Tank course and visually recounts the historical narrative that drove Americans and European immigrants to settle the American West as homesteaders and farmers
Growing West: Exploring Art and Agriculture
March 15 - May 7, 2016
Growing West is organized by students from the USU Honors Think Tank course and visually recounts the historical narrative that drove Americans and European immigrants to settle the American West as homesteaders and farmers...
Vision and Persistence is a survey of works created by forty-nine artists who graduated from the ceramics program in the Department of Art and Design at Utah State University over the last 30 years.
Vision & Persistence: 30 Years of Ceramic Excellence at Utah State University
February 2 - March 2, 2016
Vision and Persistence is a survey of works created by forty-nine artists who graduated from the ceramics program in the Department of Art and Design at Utah State University over the last 30 years.
A Matter of Taste explores the complex relationship between art, kitsch, and culture. While a gift shop may seem the more likely place to find kitsch in a museum, A Matter of Taste turns this expectation upside down.
A Matter of Taste Art, Kitsch, and Culture
January 23 - May 7, 2016
A Matter of Taste explores the complex relationship between art, kitsch, and culture. While a gift shop may seem the more likely place to find kitsch in a museum, A Matter of Taste turns this expectation upside down.
Over the last century the American West has provided fertile ground for an extraordinary range of creative response and expression by both the indigenous and non-indigenous people who inhabit it.
Transcendence: Abstraction & Symbolism in the American West
September 23, 2015 - December 10, 2016
Over the last century the American West has provided fertile ground for an extraordinary range of creative response and expression by both the indigenous and non-indigenous people who inhabit it.
Abstraction & the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings from Australia’s Western Desert (1971 – Present)
September 12 - December 12, 2015The Western Desert of Australia is a vast region that is home to Aboriginal people from various language and cultural groups. They share a common world view based on Tjukurrpa, or the Dreaming.
ReImagine ArtsySTEM presents works from the NEHMA permanent collection that build upon the theme of individual responses to the environment as presented in the other exhibition, ARTsySTEM: The Changing Climates of the Arts
ReImagine ARTsySTEM: Expanding Ideas of Artistic Response to Our Environment
June 9 - July 23, 2015
ReImagine ArtsySTEM presents works from the NEHMA permanent collection that build upon the theme of individual responses to the environment as presented in the other exhibition, ARTsySTEM: The Changing Climates of the Arts ...
ARTsySTEM: The Changing Climates of the Arts & Sciences
March 19 - August 1, 2015The Arts and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) share a necessity for undertaking imaginative inquiry of what we perceive as truth and beauty.
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, a librarian and a postman of modest means, began acquiring works by contemporary artists in the 1960s. Over the next forty years the couple amassed a vast, diverse collection of contemporary ar
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: 50 Works for 50 States
March 19 - August 1, 2015
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, a librarian and a postman of modest means, began acquiring works by contemporary artists in the 1960s. Over the next forty years the couple amassed a vast, diverse collection of contemporary ar...
Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft
January 23 - April 18, 2015Including over 60 three-dimensional objects from the Arizona State University Art Museum's permanent collection and recent acquisitions, as well as works by many of the major and emerging figures in contemporary crafts...
Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design
September 25, 2014 - February 28, 2015Featuring a selection of works by Black Mountain College (BMC) faculty and students, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design explores the role and influence of the college on the fields of studio craf...
With artworks from the NEHMA permanent collection and works on loan from a number of museums and private collectors, this exhibition explores the role of the American West as a site for rebirth and enchantment...
Enchanted Modernities Mysticism, Landscape, and the American West
April 14 - December 10, 2014
With artworks from the NEHMA permanent collection and works on loan from a number of museums and private collectors, this exhibition explores the role of the American West as a site for rebirth and enchantment...
Nobody Goes Home Sad includes historical photographs by Walter Lehrman and John Suiter showing intimate portraits of trailblazing poets and authors from the Beat generation of the 1950s.
Nobody Goes Home Sad: Photographs of the Six Gallery Poets 1956-2000
January 23 - March 14, 2014
Nobody Goes Home Sad includes historical photographs by Walter Lehrman and John Suiter showing intimate portraits of trailblazing poets and authors from the Beat generation of the 1950s.
A selection of artworks from the NEHMA permanent collection embraces a diverse range of forms and showcases work by important women artists.
Female + Form
July 1, 2013 - March 14, 2014
A selection of artworks from the NEHMA permanent collection embraces a diverse range of forms and showcases work by important women artists.
Nine works of art are displayed in the upper gallery from a 2013 donation to the art museum by the late Joe Austin. These artworks are avante garde pieces from the 1970s and 1980s by artists working in the Los Angeles
New Acquisitions 2013
June 21 - December 10, 2013
Nine works of art are displayed in the upper gallery from a 2013 donation to the art museum by the late Joe Austin. These artworks are avante garde pieces from the 1970s and 1980s by artists working in the Los Angeles ...
Located in the Study Center drawers, this exhibition is composed of work by Harrison Groutage, Everett Thorpe, and Gaell Lindstrom. On February 5 of 2013, Harrison Groutage passed away at age 87 of kidney failure
Friends of the Landscape: Harrison Groutage and Associates
March 18, 2013 - January 31, 2014
Located in the Study Center drawers, this exhibition is composed of work by Harrison Groutage, Everett Thorpe, and Gaell Lindstrom. On February 5 of 2013, Harrison Groutage passed away at age 87 of kidney failure...
Northern Utah-based photographer, Chris Dunker presents 21 selections of his work in the exhibition Industrial Ethos. These photographs address the culture of industry and how industry appears over time.
Industrial Ethos: Photography by Chris Dunker
February 1 - May 4, 2013
Northern Utah-based photographer, Chris Dunker presents 21 selections of his work in the exhibition Industrial Ethos. These photographs address the culture of industry and how industry appears over time.
USU students in the Fall 2012 course, Art History 5730: The Art Museum were offered the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with the curator of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art to explore the meanings of Conce
Ideas: An Exhibition
January 22 - May 4, 2013
USU students in the Fall 2012 course, Art History 5730: The Art Museum were offered the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with the curator of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art to explore the meanings of Conce...
Adventures in the West
August 30 - December 10, 2012Shown in conjunction with the 11th Biennial Jack London Society Symposium held in Logan, Utah and co-sponsored by the USU Department of English and the USU Special Collections Department in the Merrill - Cazier Libra...
Throughout the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, artists have used light as a medium or subject matter.
LUX Light and Space Art from the Museum Collection
August 28, 2012 - March 14, 2014
Throughout the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, artists have used light as a medium or subject matter.
Jim Starrett is an L.A.-based artist who explores concepts of religion, heritage, and the clash of differing historical interpretations.
Fragments of Terror: Drawings by Jim Starrett
January 16 - June 11, 2012
Jim Starrett is an L.A.-based artist who explores concepts of religion, heritage, and the clash of differing historical interpretations.
In order to highlight a selection of the museum's recently acquired artwork, a new exhibition was made available in the summer of 2011 named New Acquisitions featuring 6 new artworks in the west gallery marking their
New Acquisitions
June 14, 2011 - July 28, 2012
In order to highlight a selection of the museum's recently acquired artwork, a new exhibition was made available in the summer of 2011 named New Acquisitions featuring 6 new artworks in the west gallery marking their...
Bang! Thwack! Plop! Comics: an Influence on Contemporary Art
June 14, 2011 - July 28, 2012Art and comics have a complex relationship. This exhibition explores that relationship by featuring the intersection of comics and art with specific attention on how certain themes and stylistic forms have crossed ov...
As a celebration of this distinctive feature on USU campus, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art presents an exhibition about this sculpture; its history, innovation, construction, and creation.
Passacaglia: A Spotlight on Sculpture
January 16 - May 10, 2011
As a celebration of this distinctive feature on USU campus, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art presents an exhibition about this sculpture; its history, innovation, construction, and creation.
The photos in this exhibition are part of USU professor Christopher M. Gauthiér’s series, Evidence and Artifacts: Particle Matter 2.5 which explores the air quality in Cache Valley.
Evidence and Artifacts: Particle Matter 2.5
August 31, 2010 - January 11, 2011
The photos in this exhibition are part of USU professor Christopher M. Gauthiér’s series, Evidence and Artifacts: Particle Matter 2.5 which explores the air quality in Cache Valley.
Whether they are radical or practical ideas, many artists have envisioned alternative ways of living. EcoVisionaries includes socially engaged artists (the Harrisons and Ant Farm)...
EcoVisionaries: Designs for Living on Earth
August 31, 2010 - May 9, 2011
Whether they are radical or practical ideas, many artists have envisioned alternative ways of living. EcoVisionaries includes socially engaged artists (the Harrisons and Ant Farm)...
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has received a major gift of 31 new works from the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.
Uses of the Real, Part 2
July 1, 2009 - August 30, 2010
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has received a major gift of 31 new works from the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.
The USU Department of Art Project Gallery, a newly named gallery space in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, presents a new art exhibition featuring work by seven distinguished alumni from Utah State University.
Department of Art Distinguished Alumni Exhibition
March 23 - April 25, 2009
The USU Department of Art Project Gallery, a newly named gallery space in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, presents a new art exhibition featuring work by seven distinguished alumni from Utah State University.
Women's Work features the work of contemporary women printmakers from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation.
Women's Work
September 15, 2008 - March 1, 2009
Women's Work features the work of contemporary women printmakers from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation.
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art continues to display the exciting, electronic, musical installation, Klompen which it acquired last year through generous support from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.
Klompen
September 1 - September 30, 2008
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art continues to display the exciting, electronic, musical installation, Klompen which it acquired last year through generous support from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.
Traces Montana's Frontier Revisited Photography by Richard Buswell
March 25 - May 10, 2008Richard Buswell's work displayed in this exhibition contains photographs of hidden Montana ghost towns and isolated sites of early western settlement.
Picturing Faith is a unique series of photographs showing the place of religion in American society through the lens of some of America's most well known photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Pa
Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography, 1935 - 1943
February 5 - June 28, 2008
Picturing Faith is a unique series of photographs showing the place of religion in American society through the lens of some of America's most well known photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Pa...
Contemporary art can be baffling. Artists sometimes take objects from the everyday world and transform them into art. But what makes an object art? Is it originality, genuineness, authorship, or is it context?
Uses of the Real Originality, Conditional Objects, Action/Documentation, and Contemplation
January 1, 2008 - April 30, 2011
Contemporary art can be baffling. Artists sometimes take objects from the everyday world and transform them into art. But what makes an object art? Is it originality, genuineness, authorship, or is it context?
A selection of curated artwork from the permanent collection focuses on painters working in New Mexico in the 1930s called the Transcendental Painting Group.
Abstracting the Land: Southwest Transcendentalism
November 1, 2007 - May 3, 2008
A selection of curated artwork from the permanent collection focuses on painters working in New Mexico in the 1930s called the Transcendental Painting Group.
Organized by writers and independent curators Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna along with the Santa Monica Museum of Art, this exhibition offers an extraordinary snapshot of the post-war arts underground in Southern
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle
January 10 - March 15, 2006
Organized by writers and independent curators Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna along with the Santa Monica Museum of Art, this exhibition offers an extraordinary snapshot of the post-war arts underground in Southern...
Ms. Webster sculpts living things that come from the sea to make strong statements about nature and the environment.
Maryann Webster AquaGenesis
October 25, 2005 - June 29, 2006
Ms. Webster sculpts living things that come from the sea to make strong statements about nature and the environment.
Sight & Sound consists of selected paintings and sculptures from the museum’s permanent collection that provide a glimpse of the simultaneous revolutions in art and music that occurred during the 20th century.
Sight & Sound: A Visual Metaphor
September 1, 2005 - July 30, 2008
Sight & Sound consists of selected paintings and sculptures from the museum’s permanent collection that provide a glimpse of the simultaneous revolutions in art and music that occurred during the 20th century.