Exhibitions

IMPRINT: Dox Thrash

Black Life, and American Culture March 23 - August 4, 2024 Exhibitions Join us for the captivating journey of Dox Thrash, a visionary artist whose pioneering spirit impacted the world of printmaking. “Imprint: Dox Thrash Black Life, and American Culture' invites you to explore the life and artistic legacy of Thrash, from his beginnings in Griffin, Georgia, to his groundbreaking contributions to... Read more

Form, Growth, and Variation: The Experimental Prints of Helen Phillips

Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI November 16, 2023 - March 23, 2024 Exhibitions Form, Growth, and Variation: The Experimental Prints of Helen Phillips opens at the Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, November 16, 2023, and runs through March 23, 2024. The California born sculptor Helen Phillips found printmaking in the 1930s, like many artists, at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 while in... Read more

American Art in the Atomic Age

Asheville Art Museum November 10, 2023 - April 29, 2024 Exhibitions In the summer of 1939, physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Nazi Germany was researching a deadly nuclear weapon. Within months, the Nazi army invaded Poland, beginning World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States Office of Scientific... Read more

Dox to Light

Fleisher Art Memorial October 20 - November 17, 2023 Exhibitions Dox Thrash was born in 1893 in Griffin, GA. After a difficult childhood shaped by the cruel realities of racism, Jim Crow laws, and poverty that characterized the American South in the post-Civil War period, Thrash left home at the age of 15 to seek opportunities in the north. He... Read more

Proto-Feminism in the Print Studio

Spruance Gallery, Arcadia University September 1 - December 4, 2022 Exhibitions Guest curator: Christina Weyl During the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of American women artists gravitated toward making prints, partly because the medium provided forms of access and agency not as readily available within painting and sculpture. Working in a range of styles, they studied at various print studios—including independent outfits... Read more

Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17

Fort Wayne Museum of Art April 22, 2022 - June 25, 2023 Exhibitions Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miró made his first trip to the U.S. in 1947 after receiving a commission for a mural in the Gourmet Room at the very modern Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati. During his nine-month stay working in New York, he frequented Stanley William Hayter’s legendary printmaking workshop,... Read more

Lynne Clibanoff - Inside Out

@ The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach June 22 - September 4, 2021 Exhibitions Inside Out features a selection of 17 paper-and-wood constructions of interior spaces in which Clibanoff has lived, worked, studied and admired, from Philadelphia to Ireland and Italy. A Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship enabled Clibanoff to work for several months in 2004 and again in 2006 in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland,... Read more

Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17

Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD April 16 - August 1, 2021 Exhibitions Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17 explores a group of little-known etchings Joan Miró made with influential British printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, the New York outpost of his seminal printmaking studio in Paris. Both Miró and Hayter were key participants in the community... Read more

Norma Morgan: Enchanted World

Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD April 16 - August 1, 2021 Exhibitions Norma Morgan: Enchanted World is an exhibition of the late artist’s prints, watercolors, paintings and drawings, and spans over 30 years of her prolific yet understudied career. The exhibition highlights Morgan’s ability to convey a spiritual experience through her landscape and portraiture work and to effortlessly transition from formal observation... Read more

Cheryl Warrick, New Frequencies: Exploring Possibilities in Paint

The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE June 12 - August 23, 2020 Exhibitions The Delaware Contemporary presents New Frequencies: Exploring Possibilities in Paint, a solo exhibition of the work of Cheryl Warrick. In her first solo museum exhibition, Warrick applies various methods of abstraction to create layered, mixed media works that weave personal and collective symbolism together. Through swatches of vibrant paint emerge... Read more

Morris Blackburn and his Legacy: Painter, Printmaker, Writer, Teacher

CVA Gallery, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ January 22 - February 21, 2020 Exhibitions Morris Blackburn and his Legacy: Painter, Printmaker, Writer, Teacher is an exhibition exploring the work and influence of Blackburn, a Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art graduate and lecturer who's long career had an impact on generations of students at PAFA. Blackburn's Modernist works have been collected by museums internationally... Read more

Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint

The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY January 19 - March 22, 2020 Exhibitions Years before the Civil Rights Movement forced white Americans to see the disparities between white and black America, Dox Thrash brought to the nation an inside look at African American life. Born in rural Georgia, resident in Chicago and Philadelphia, a member of the New Negro Movement, and active in... Read more

Women of Atelier 17, Works on Paper

Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT January 19 - March 15, 2020 Exhibitions This exhibition represents a timely reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17, focusing on the women whose work defied gender norms through novel aesthetic forms and techniques. Atelier 17 operated as an uncommonly egalitarian laboratory for revolutionizing print technique, style, and scale. It facilitated women artists' engagement... Read more

Amze Emmons: Pattern Drift

Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD August 2 - September 30, 2019 Exhibitions Pattern Drift, Amze Emmons's mid-career survey at the Academy Art Museum, will open August 2nd and continue through September 30, 2019. A fully illustrated catalog of his prints will accompany the exhibition. Academy Art Museum is located in Easton, MD. The exhibition will travel to the Ross Museum of Art,... Read more