Exhibitions

Robert Blackburn: Creating Art, Creating Community

April 18 - July 31, 2024 Online Exhibitions This exhibition delves into the artistic achievements and contributions of Robert Blackburn (1920-2003). The printmaking workshop he founded served as a welcoming space for American and International artists of diverse backgrounds to connect with like-minded individuals, fostering an environment for learning and producing fine prints. Blackburn prioritized the workshop's operation... Read more

Then & Now

Geometric Abstraction August 22 - December 31, 2023 Online Exhibitions Historical lineage and contemporary ingenuity inform Then & Now, an exhibition that serves as a bridge between epochs with works made from the early years of the 20th Century when artists found the freedom to manipulate geometric form. This break with making art based on observation also served as an... Read more

Modern Drawings II

American & European 1928 - 1987 September 1 - November 1, 2022 Online Exhibitions Works on paper remain at the core of what we know and love. There is a clarity and intimacy attainable when working on paper that can be lost when artists choose other, perhaps more ambitious media. The scale is often more manageable or even intimate and its quotidian nature encourages... Read more

Nature/Amour

Norma Morgan March 1 - July 1, 2022 Online Exhibitions Norma Morgan: Enchanted World opened at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, in the spring of last year. It was the first solo museum exhibition dedicated to the masterful works of this under-known printmaker and a second exhibition is in the planning stages for the spring of 2023. This... Read more

Standing Above the Real

Surrealist Graphics 1924-1965 February 1 - April 1, 2022 Online Exhibitions The word surreal has long been a part of everyday conversation. Any experience that seems in any way extraordinary or simply strange may be described as surreal. That the word first came into use to name a revolutionary Modern art movement is no matter to most who have added it... Read more

Women of Atelier 17

Paris & New York 1929 - 1958 July 6 - October 31, 2021 Online Exhibitions Christina Weyl's important book, Women of Atelier 17 marked 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... Read more

Another Place

Landscapes since 1958 January 26 - March 26, 2021 Online Exhibitions Good times or not so good times, a satisfying landscape is always welcome. As we continue to cope with the challenges that began last year, gathering this group of works, the earliest made in 1958 while a few were only completed just weeks ago, seemed like a worthy idea. While... Read more

Creating Vital Space

50 years of prints by Black Artists August 27 - October 27, 2020 Online Exhibitions '…Illustration is one thing, and creating vital space is another.'* Robert Blackburn's words, where he distinguishes his artistic vision by comparison to works of Elizabeth Catlett and Charles White, both of whom he knew and admired, are a worthy guide to selections in this exhibition. Blackburn was one of America's... Read more

Amze Emmons

Selections from "Pattern Drift" July 10 - September 10, 2020 Online Exhibitions 'Amze Emmons arrives at his visual lexicon through a sifting process that incorporates his avid readings, his gatherings of a wide range of quotations from printed visual culture and his own travels. The goal is not to generate a documentary record of particular spaces, but rather to arrive at a... Read more