Upcoming Exhibitions
Inner Vision: Abstraction and Cognition
Main Gallery, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Inner Vision: Abstraction and Cognition considers the use of abstraction to investigate the nature of thought, experience, and the senses. Conceiving of abstraction as a language that spans lived experience, scientific inquiry, and diverse epistemological frameworks, Inner Vision explores a range of abstract representations of cognition and sensation including emotional states, dreams, hallucinations, mystical experience, and neurological phenomena. While their visual dialects vary considerably, each artist investigates the complexities of our internal perceptions and sensations through abstraction. Some works offer critical perspectives on cultural signifiers to convey belief systems. Others examine altered states of consciousness through abstracted scientific models. Still others investigate the capacity of color and form to activate personal and collective memory. Many of the works interrogate and engage perceptual awareness. Taken together, they demonstrate the potential of abstraction—and the limits of concrete language—to understand and communicate the full spectrum of lived and felt experience.
Featured artists: Bhakti Baxter, Terri Friedman, Rema Ghuloum, Dennis Koch, Robin Mitchell, Bridget Mullen, Angeline Rivas, Adee Roberson, Barbara Rossi, and Vian Sora
Bruce Conner: Lithographs
Main Gallery Corridor, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Inspired by the artist’s highly detailed felt-tip pen drawings, this series of prints explores perception by prompting prolonged, up-close viewing and recall mandala forms as well as microscopic imagery. The selected prints are part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
Jodie Mack: Glistening Thrills
Mini Gallery, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Jodie Mack’s handmade collage films blend techniques of abstraction and optical science to create richly layered perceptual tapestries. Glistening Thrills is an approximately 9-minute film with audio that will play on a loop in the Mini Gallery, facilitating an immersive experience that builds upon the themes of the Main Gallery exhibition, Inner Vision.
Laurie Steelink: A Love Supreme
Glenn Court, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Brittany Mojo: A Vocabulary of Objects
Community Gallery, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Word & Image: Prints from the Permanent Collection
Prints and Drawings Hallway, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Notes to Future Selves: A Community Engagement Project
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery, Ongoing
Walasse Ting: 1¢ Life
Prints and Drawings Room, Ongoing
1¢ Life (1964) is a collaborative book project by Chinese-American visual artist and poet Walasse Ting (1929-2010). The book combines written works by Ting with artwork by various artists associated with Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, including Sam Francis (who edited the book), Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, among others. Ting’s witty wordplay and biting sense of humor is evident throughout the book, as is 1960s experimentation and iconoclasm. The book includes thirty-one folios, which will be on display with weekly rotations over the course of fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters. 1¢ Life is part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
Reservations are available for visitor exhibition viewing sessions in the David Campagna Prints and Drawings Room. To make a reservation to view this exhibition, please fill out a request at least two weeks in advance. Make a reservation to view this exhibition.
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Archives Room, Ongoing
