Past and Present Exhibitions

A detail of an abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky titled "Tension in Red." It features an orangey-red background with lots of triangular, spiky shapes in different colors (and a few circular shapes) on top of it.

Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art

A detail of a still from Man Ray's black and white experimental film "Emak Bakia"

L’objet en mouvement: Early Abstract Film

A detail of a painting by Carroll Cloar titled "Wedding Party." It resembles a family photograph, with two rows of people dressed for a wedding, standing on the porch and just in front of their home.

The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South

A close-up detail of an elaborately ornamented gold chalice that once belonged to Catherine the Great

Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762 – 1796)

A ceramic plate made by the artist Michael Simon, in a color photograph looking down at the plate. It features two abstracted fish, rendered in black ink with a swath of yellow lengthwise down their bodies.

Pick of the Kiln: The Work of Michael Simon

Recent Acquisitions

A color photograph of a mannequin wearing a pale green Balenciaga dress and a matching loose coat

Fashion Independent: The Original Style of Ann Bonfoey Taylor

Bernard Smol's painting "Job and His Comforters," an impressionistic view of a line of people rendered in white on black

Deaccessioning Bernard Smol

A close-up detail of a small face jug made in Edgefield, South Carolina

Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina

A detail of a smudgy, somewhat abstracted painting of cars and an overpass

Cityscapes by Ben Aronson

A detail of a still from a film by Adam Forrester, a graduating MFA candidate from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Forrester appears in a white suite, using a white shovel to move red dirt.

Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition 2013

William H. Johnson: An American Modern