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07/01/2010 - 06/30/2013
Life Stories -
Life Stories: American Portraits Past and Present
The artist’s task in creating an exceptional portrait must be more than rendering an accurate likeness of the subject. The artist must find a story to tell about the subject and make that story compelling. Formal portraits typically focus on the public aspects of an individual’s life, such as their position in a family or society or their celebrated accomplishments and honors. Portraits can also be informal, revealing aspects of the sitter’s private interests, friendships and emotional life. Life Stories: American Portraits Past and Present features paintings, photographs and sculpture spanning a period of over two hundred years. The exhibition explores how styles and purposes of portraiture have changed over time, reflecting changing social values and the shift of emphasis from ...
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07/01/2010 - 06/30/2013
Common Ground -
Common Ground: Art of the American Landscape
The landscape has been a subject of enduring interest for American artists. Common Ground: Art of the American Landscape brings together paintings and sculptures by artists from the mid-19th century to the present and explores themes that have continued to interest artists over time. These shared themes include documenting celebrated landmarks associated with America’s national identity such as the Hudson River and Rocky Mountains, the use of light and atmosphere to convey ideas about spirituality and the transcendent qualities of nature, and the impact of the development and use of natural resources as seen in the paintings of the Hudson River School and works by contemporary artists. The exhibition includes paintings by George Inness, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, April Gornik, Joseph ...
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01/01/2011 - 06/30/2013
Currents in Contemporary Art -
The OMA has been collecting contemporary American art for more than 30 years. A hallmark of contemporary art of the past three decades is its diversity and acceptance of varied approaches to creating art. Today artists employ a wide range of expressive strategies in creating their work. Modes of expression can include representational imagery, pure abstraction or elements of both. Additionally, artists often borrow styles and imagery from art of the past, other cultures and popular media. Among the artists who will be represented in this exhibition are Ursula von Rydingsvard, John Chamberlain, Frank Moore, Therman Statom, Chuck Close and Howardena Pindell....
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06/28/2012 - 06/30/2013
Aztec to Zapotec II -
Aztec to Zapotec: Selections from the Ancient Americas Collection features more than 180 works made prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Representing a time period of more than 3,000 years, the exhibition is drawn from the OMA’s comprehensive Art of the Ancient Americas Collection and gives a rare glimpse into the life and culture of numerous civilizations from the North, Central and South American regions. Significant ancient works of gold, silver, jade, ceramic, shell and wood are included from the cultures of the Aztec, Maya, Moche, Nasca, Inca and Zapotec....
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06/28/2012 - 06/30/2013
Living in Style: African Art of Everyday Life -
Living in Style: African Art of Everyday Life from the Collection of William D. and Norma Canelas Roth
Living in Style presents beautifully crafted functional objects created by both men and women from traditional African societies throughout the continent. These objects are primarily personal and household items used in everyday life. Included are domestic implements, containers, furniture, weapons, jewelry and apparel. These objects were made to fulfill a useful purpose, but they were also created to be expressive works of art and treasured possessions. As works of art they communicate important cultural ideas within each society through their form, decoration and aesthetic quality. These ideas affirm shared values about social relationships, civic organization and spiritual beliefs. By enhancing these utilitarian objects with aesthetic and cultural meaning, they become ...
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05/02 - 06/30/2013
Shelley Lake: A Hero's Journey -
Thinking of the computer as an intellectual and creative partner, instead of an inanimate tool, can lead to completely new esthetic experiences, making the computer analogous to art, as numeration is to the mathematician....
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06/15 - 07/07/2013
Contemporary American Graphics Collection -
Contemporary American Graphics Collection is an exhibition featuring more than 150 limited edition lithographs, etchings, silk-screen prints and woodcuts from the OMA’s permanent collection. Most of these prints are no longer available for purchase in the art market. On display are examples of major traditional printing techniques, as well as new and innovative processes. The works vary from realism to abstraction, reflecting in its variety of techniques and styles the revolution in fine art printing that has occurred in the last 55 years. More than 120 of America's most renowned artists including Jim Dine, Katherine Bowling, Christopher Brown, Lesley Dill, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha and other American masters will be showcased....
