Current Exhibitions Upcoming
“Art is a form of freedom”
March 4, 2023 — July 2, 2023
This exhibition results from a collaborative project that brought works of art from the museum’s collection into classrooms at Whitworth Women’s Facility, a prison in north Georgia. The incarcerated women there selected the works in this exhibition and wrote prose and poetry in response to them.
Sky Hopinka: Lore
February 11, 2023 — September 24, 2023
Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this video work stemming from Hollis Frampton’s 1971 experimental film “Nostalgia.”
In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse
September 3, 2022 — June 18, 2023
This focused exhibition highlights Black artist Henry Ossawa Tanner’s impact on several younger artists: Palmer C. Hayden, William H. Johnson, William Edouard Scott and Hale Woodruff.
Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection
June 11, 2022 — July 3, 2024
Selections from Larry and Brenda Thompson’s gift of works by African American artists
Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art
November 14, 2020 — February 4, 2024
Works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others, on loan from Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
Southern/Modern
June 17, 2023 — December 10, 2023
“Southern/Modern” will be the first project to survey comprehensively the rich array of paintings and works on paper created in the American South during the first half of the 20th century. Featuring more than 100 works of art drawn from public and private collections across the country, it brings together a generation’s worth of scholarship.
Power Couple: Pierre and Louise Daura in Paris
June 24, 2023 — February 11, 2024
Portraits of Joaquín Torres-García’s daughters by Pierre Daura and Louise Heron Blair
Where Shadows Cross
July 22, 2023 — October 8, 2023
Iconic image maker Jim Fiscus produces layered single-frame stories that comment on human experience
Kei Ito: Staring at the Face of the Sun
January 27, 2024 — July 14, 2024
Photography that examines the intergenerational trauma of nuclear disaster and the possibilities of healing and reconciliation
Richard Prince: Tell Me Everything
February 10, 2024 — June 16, 2024
“Tell Me Everything” features artist Richard Prince’s most recent suite of works based on the joke archives of influential 20th-century American comedian Milton Berle
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