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    Michael Lucero Installation

    Michael Lucero—now best known for his ceramic sculpture—began developing a body of life-sized figures as a graduate student. When he moved to New York City […]

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    Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

    Exhibition Overview In 1977, Romare Bearden created a series of collages and watercolors based on Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden’s Odyssey series […]

  • Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form

    Exhibition Overview Since the fourteenth century, women in the Mithila region of Bihar, India, have practiced a distinctive traditional form of domestic wall painting. In […]

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    Karen LaMonte: Material and Light

    Three sculptures by Karen LaMonte on view are tours-de-force of material and light that reflect rich cultural meanings and illuminate human experience. Three recently acquired […]

  • Ikeda Manabu and Tenmyouya Hisashi

    This exhibition features the art of two contemporary Japanese artists and introduces a new work by each into the museum’s permanent collection. Ikeda Manabu has […]

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    Marginalia in cARTography

    Exhibition Overview This exhibition explores the visual discourse between marginal artistic images and the maps where they appear, as this marginalia sheds light on the […]

  • “You know she’s a little bit dangerous”

    Sandra Erbacher is the winner of the 2014 Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student. Erbacher’s collages, sculptures and installations employ commonplace industrial materials, […]