Current
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Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco 22 Mar - 17 Aug 2025 Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021) became famous for his colorful paintings of American confections and buffets. He was also a self-described art “thief,” who openly drew ideas from and reinterpreted old and new European and American artworks. An influential teacher at Sacramento Junior College and the University of California, Davis, Thiebaud never... Read more -
Neil Jenney: Improved Picassos
Morris Museum 15 May 2025 In 2010, artist Neil Jenney commissioned the late portrait painter Ki-Young Sung to create copies of works by Pablo Picasso. Sung had trained as an artist in his home city of Seoul (South Korea) after which he became a portraitist for the South Korean military. After many years making portraits... Read more
Past
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Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations
Barnes Foundation 9 Mar - 25 May 2025 Organized by the Barnes and the Dallas Museum of Art, Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations surveys the pioneering career of Cecily Brown (British, b. 1969), one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today. Presented in the Roberts Gallery, the exhibition features more than 30 paintings and related drawings... Read more -
James Prosek: At Work
Morris Museum 28 Feb - 8 Jun 2025 James Prosek: At Work celebrates the significant projects that define the artist’s first 30 years of artmaking, and is the first opportunity for New Jersey audiences to connect with his remarkable creative trajectory. This comprehensive survey presents the remarkable breadth of Prosek’s work, from on-the-spot studies made in the field... Read more -
Sally Michel: Brilliant Legacy
Morris Museum 29 Jan - 4 May 2025 Emerging from New York’s art scene of the Great Depression was the distinctive style developed by a remarkable couple: Sally Michel (1902-2003) and Milton Avery (1885-1965). Variously called Realist-Abstraction or Color Field Realism, their idiosyncratic look combined a fidelity to the observed world with geometric simplicity as they painted quotidian... Read more -
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery
Carnegie Museum of Art 18 Jan - 1 Jun 2025 Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909–1977) was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art scene and a creative force who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings populated with objects and figures of personal significance. With a deft hand, a concise symbolic vocabulary, and a restrained palette,... Read more -
Milton Avery: Boundary of Silence
He Art Museum, Foshan, China 11 Nov 2024 - 6 Apr 2025 From November 11, 2024 to April 6, 2025, He Art Museum (HEM) presents American artist Milton Avery’s exhibition “Boundary of Silence”. The exhibition showcases the artist’s paintings alongside artworks from the He Art Museum’s collection, spanning various media from oil paintings, ink-wash paintings, sculptures, and installations. The exhibition aims to... Read more -
Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds that Reside in Far Pavilions
Art Gallery of New South Wales 9 Nov 2024 - 9 Feb 2025 This is the first major solo exhibition of Melbourne-based artist Nusra Latif Qureshi, who is best known for her finely crafted contemporary miniature paintings. Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born... Read more -
Jackson Pollock: The Early Years (1934-1947)
Musée National Picasso-Paris 13 Oct 2024 - 19 Jan 2025 The exhibition 'Jackson Pollock: The Early Years (1934-1947)' revisits the early career of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), marked by the influence of regionalism and Mexican muralists, right up to his first drippings in 1947. This body of work, rarely exhibited for its own sake, bears witness to the diverse sources that... Read more -
Tamara de Lempicka
de Young Museum, San Francisco 12 Oct 2024 - 9 Feb 2025 With works that exuded cool elegance and transgressive sensuality, Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) helped define Art Deco. Her paintings captured the glamour and vitality of postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity. This exhibition — the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the United States — explores... Read more -
A Particular Kind of Heaven
Karma, Thomaston, ME 21 Jul - 1 Sep 2024 A Particular Kind of Heaven presents a wide array of empyrean imagery by a multigenerational group of artists. Sited in a deconsecrated Catholic church, the exhibition probes connections between the spiritual and the natural, the everyday and the sublime. While the near-universal motif of the sky unites the expansive contributions... Read more -
Eyes on Nature, the Art of Sean Cavanaugh
Morris Museum, Morristown NJ 23 Feb - 26 May 2024 On view in our historic Bickford Gallery, Eyes on Nature, the Art of Sean Cavanaugh brings together a selection of works highlighting Cavanaugh’s watercolor, oil, and gouache depictions of trees, coral reefs and other naturalia. Inspired by late nineteenth century American landscape painters, Cavanaugh has spent his artistic career examining... Read more -
Framing Nature’s Paradox: Neil Jenney | Donald Sultan, 1969-2023
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ 6 Oct 2023 - 18 Feb 2024 Jenney and Sultan came to prominence in the late 1960s/early 1970s in New York City and are admirers of each other's work. Each is a prominent exponent in the global conversation about the art of our time. Their work is found at leading institutions and in significant private collections worldwide.... Read more -
Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX 16 Sep 2023 - 12 May 2024 Less than 1 percent of native prairies exist across the state of Texas. This conservation concern is the catalyst for more than 20 new works created by artist and naturalist James Prosek . Over the past two years, Prosek has traveled to grassland habitats across the state, ranging from urban... Read more -
Milton Avery
Royal Academy of Arts, London 15 Jul - 16 Oct 2022 Milton Avery is considered one of North America’s greatest 20th-century colourists. According to The New York Times , “Only Matisse – to whose art he owed much, of course – produced a greater achievement in this respect”. Avery’s career fell between the movements of the American Impressionists and the Abstract... Read more -
March Avery
Waddington Custot, London 6 Jul - 17 Sep 2022 Bringing together over fifty years of work, this new exhibition introduces UK audiences to the richly coloured, enchanting compositions of painter March Avery (b. 1932, New York, New York), in her first solo show outside of the United States. With no formal training, March Avery has an instinctive approach to... Read more -
WILLIAM TURNBULL: CENTENARY EXHIBITION
No.9 Cork Street, London 29 Jun - 20 Jul 2022 William Turnbull (1922-2012) was one of Britain's most important post-war Modernists. Described by Nicholas Serota when Director of the Tate as ‘an exceptional artist, unusually gifted both as a painter and a sculptor’, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting concerns of... Read more -
CAVANAUGH & PROSEK
17 May - 31 Jul 2022 Read more -
Sean Scully
Philadelphia Museum of Art 11 Apr - 31 Jul 2022 The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major survey of Irish-born American artist Sean Scully, featuring paintings and works on paper from the early 1970s to the present. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas will chart the artist’s significant contributions to the American and European history of abstract painting... Read more -
Milton Avery
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 5 Mar - 5 Jun 2022 The modernist American painter Milton Avery (1885-1965) expressed his vision of the world through harmonious color and simplified forms. His career spanned the movements of American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism yet in light of these major artistic traditions, he forged a staunchly independent path as an artist. Throughout his work,... Read more -
Milton Avery
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 7 Nov 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Milton Avery is considered one of North America’s greatest 20th-century colorists. His career fell between the movements of the American Impressionists and the Abstract Expressionists, leaving him to forge a staunchly independent path. This comprehensive exhibition brings together a selection of approximately 70 paintings from the 1910s to the mid-1960s... Read more -
James Prosek
Ocean Fishes 7 Aug - 6 Sep 2021 PHILLIPS X proudly presents James Prosek: Ocean Fishes. Part of Prosek’s work is about examining the practices of those who engaged in documenting, naming, and ordering nature during the Age of Exploration. His work dramatically showcases his mastery of this European tradition of representation, as well as, in the details, the influences of the miniature the tradition of India and China, and the abstractions of American modernists.
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Milton Avery
A Sense of Place 1 - 31 Jul 2021 The title of this lovely and succinct survey of Milton Avery’s career might strike the visitor, at first blush, as a bit shopworn and predictable. But it is entirely apt and gets right to the point in insisting that the expression—or, better still, the capturing—of a sense of place is... Read more -
SEAN SCULLY
The Shape of Ideas — The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 20 Jun - 10 Oct 2021 Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas , organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, features the artist’s most significant works and examines his contribution to the development of abstraction over a span of nearly five decades. The exhibition highlights the close relationship between the artist’s paintings, drawings, prints, and pastels,... Read more -
Milton Avery
The Connecticut Years 14 May - 17 Oct 2021 This exhibition presents an intimate look at the formative years of the modernist painter Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965). Beginning in Hartford in the 1910s and 1920s, Avery forged a staunchly independent path as an artist for more than half a century. Two dozen sketches, watercolors, and oils illustrate his early... Read more -
James Prosek
Art, Artifact, Artifice — Yale University Art Gallery 14 Feb 2020 - 28 Feb 2021 Award-winning artist, naturalist, and writer James Prosek (b. 1975, B.A. 1997) brings his love of the natural world and his lifelong fascination with the naming and classification of nature to the Yale University Art Gallery in James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice. The exhibition brings together objects from the collections of... Read more -
Liliane Tomasko
Dark Goes Lightly — Chateau La Coste 21 Oct - 18 Dec 2019 The internationally recognised abstract painter Liliane Tomasko is presenting a new exhibition of her work in the sublime settings of Château La Coste in France. Tomasko explores painting as a gateway into the realms of dreaming and sleep, probing into the gulf between the conscious and the subconscious. Tomasko believes... Read more -
WILLIAM TURNBULL
Head, Mask, Horse — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 29 Sep 2019 - 10 Mar 2020 A critical turn in subjects and character materialized in the drawings and sculptures of the Scottish-born artist William Turnbull around 1953-1955. As an art student in post-WWII London and Paris, Turnbull relied on the use of lines in his sculptures made of plaster over wire. Highly abstracted they represented objects... Read more -
SEAN CAVANAUGH
Under The Elder's Gaze — Yares Art 2 Aug - 28 Sep 2019 YARES ART is pleased to present Sean Cavanaugh: Under the Elder's Gaze, an exhibition of recent works centered on intimate nature studies. The show appears at YARES ART, Santa Fe, August 2-September 28, 2019. Highlighted here are approximately two dozen of Cavanaugh's precisionist oil-on-canvas paintings and luminous works on paper... Read more -
MILTON AVERY
The Late Portraits — Victoria Miro Venice 20 Jul - 8 Sep 2019 Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery’s life. Characterised by economy of touch and luminescence of colour, the works on view see the artist apply a lifetime of experience to cherished subjects and motifs. Milton Avery (1885–1965) made portraits throughout his... Read more -
HERBERT FERBER
Form Into Space — Philadelphia Museum of Art 27 Jun 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 Read more -
THOMAS HOUSEAGO
Annenberg Courtyard — Royal Academy 10 Jun - 7 Sep 2019 Read more -
JAMES PROSEK
Contra Natura / Against Nature — Lowe Art Museum 28 Feb - 9 Sep 2019 Deeply invested in both the environment and environmental concerns, James Prosek is a contemporary artist whose creative output explores timeless aspects of humanity and the natural world while also engaging directly with the zeitgeist. These complementary threads are beautifully woven together in his exhibition, James Prosek: Contra Naturam/Against Nature ,... Read more -
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART
Beginnings — Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge 23 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 Read more -
SEAN SCULLY
Landline — Hirshhorn Museum 13 Sep 2018 - 3 Feb 2019 A major highlight of the 56th Venice Biennale, Sean Scully’s acclaimed Landline series made its US debut at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Featuring never-before-seen artworks from the renowned series, Sean Scully: Landline presented a dramatic shift in the work of one of today’s most influential artists. With thick,... Read more -
Liliane Tomasko
12 nights x dreams — Rockland Center for the Arts 11 Feb - 11 Mar 2018 12 Nights x Dreams is Liliane Tomasko’s first exhibition in Rockland County since moving her main working studio to Tappan NY in 2015, and will offer a rare glimpse into the philosophical reverie that underpins all of the artist’s work. This exhibition of new work sees Tomasko honing that concept... Read more -
HERBERT FERBER
Space in Tension —The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 27 Jan 2018 - 29 Jul 2019 Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter Herbert Ferber (American, 1906–1991) was one of the New York School’s most original artists. Known as the founder of “sculpture as environment,” Ferber created one of the first fully-immersive sculptural installations, which was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1961. This retrospective... Read more -
Donald Sultan
The Disaster Paintings — Smithsonian American Art Museum 26 May - 4 Sep 2017 In the 1980s, Donald Sultan began his industrial landscape series the Disaster Paintings . He worked with the subject for nearly a decade, using images of actual events drawn from the daily newspaper. Sultan’s Disaster Paintings illustrate robust, man-made structures—such as industrial plants and train cars—as fragile constructs that can... Read more -
Liliane Tomasko
In Visible World — Phoenix Art Museum 21 Nov 2015 - 14 Feb 2016 Over the last decade, the underlying drawings beneath the layers of thick paint have evolved into her “inside out” paintings. A reversal of the process, the colorful textiles are strewn, stacked and composed–undulating and transforming from abstraction to mountain vistas. From darkness into light, the viewer is transported to another... Read more -
Liliane Tomasko
Mother-Matrix-Matter — Lowe Art Museum 30 Oct 2015 - 31 Jan 2016 Born in Zurich in 1967, Liliane Tomasko is known for her quietly powerful, richly evocative works. With a focus on the domestic sphere, the artist – who originally trained as a sculptor at London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Arts – has a unique working method: she creates soft sculptures from... Read more -
Richard Pousette-Dart
Full Circle: Works on Paper — Philadelphia Museum of Art 13 Sep - 30 Nov 2014 Full Circle surveys the long and extremely prolific career of one of the twentieth century’s most creative draftsmen, Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916–1992). Focused on his works on paper, the exhibition explores his remarkably varied use of materials and techniques, which often involved layering and scraping, scribbling and dripping, dotting and... Read more
