Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington
Beauford Delaney: The Light Contained in Every Thing
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Ave, New York
Brush, Block, and Blood: Three Generations of Yoshida Women Printmakers
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence
Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
Clyfford Still Museum 1250 Bannock St., Denver
Priscilla Dobler Dzul: Water Carries the Stories of Our Stars
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle
Week of Events
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]
Glenn Kaino: Bridge
Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie Smith, the American winner of the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head […]
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process. […]
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes is a collaborative exhibition co-curated with youth from the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington State, on view from September 19, 2025–May 10, 2026, at the Clyfford Still Museum. It highlights the perspectives of Colville children on Clyfford Still’s depictions of […]
Boren Banner Series: Camille Trautman
Every photograph is a reminder that the act of framing is never neutral. In Camille Trautman’s first solo museum exhibition in their hometown, the Seattle-born Duwamish artist uses photography and video to challenge colonial narratives and counter Indigenous erasure. The exhibition presents selections from their ongoing series The North American LCD—spectral self-portraits staged in varied natural […]
ektor garcia: loose ends
In a materials-based practice that draws on Mexican handcraft traditions and a DIY sensibility, ektor garcia subtly challenges hierarchies of gendered and racialized labor while undermining notions of static identity. He draws from a unique vocabulary of materials—copper wire, cast metals, glass, clay, horsehair, seashells, and leather—which he weaves, knots, and crochets into objects at […]
Priscilla Dobler Dzul: Water Carries the Stories of Our Stars
Water Carries the Stories of our Stars is the expansive museum debut from artist Priscilla Dobler Dzul, who lives in Tacoma, Washington, and Yucatán, Mexico. The exhibition brings together an entirely new body of sculpture, textile, and video work to chart urgent stories of environmental harm and cultural justice. Drawing from her Maya and multicultural heritage […]
Frye Salon + Jonathan Lasker
Frye Salon is both a fixture and a living experiment—an ever-evolving installation that invites fresh perspectives on the museum’s founding-era collection. The gallery features more than one hundred paintings in a floor-to-ceiling presentation mode known as “salon style,” recalling the striking displays once found in Charles and Emma Frye’s First Hill home. In Frye Salon + […]
Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies
For over five decades, American artist Jonathan Lasker has approached the elements of painting like a puzzle—taking it apart, turning the pieces, and putting it back together in new ways. Drawings and Studies offers a close look at how his ideas take shape, featuring works on paper that Lasker created from the 1980s to the 2020s, tracking […]
Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies
For over five decades, American artist Jonathan Lasker has approached the elements of painting like a puzzle—taking it apart, turning the pieces, and putting it back together in new ways. Drawings and Studies offers a close look at how his ideas take shape, featuring works on paper that Lasker created from the 1980s to the 2020s, tracking […]
Richard Hambleton: Momentum
Woodward Gallery opens the new year with Richard Hambleton: Momentum, an exhibition of works spanning 1982 - 2007. This selection brings together key bodies of work, including Beautiful Paintings, Shadowman, and Burning Merit, to trace movement as a persistent and driving force throughout Hambleton’s practice. Hambleton achieved the impossible: capturing the illusion of motion on […]
Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood’s Monotypes
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
Toward What Sun? Vol. I
“Toward What Sun? Vol. I” is the first installment of a four-part online exhibition of prints by Philip Van Keuren featuring forty photogravures made between 2016 and 2026, presented by Manneken Press. Philip Van Keuren has been making photographs for many years, guided by everyday observations that reveal the world as both sublimely beautiful and […]
Sarah Smelser: Sandia
Sarah Smelser's "Sandia" images filter her experience of the desert environments of the American Southwest, its particular qualities of light, heat, emptiness and expansive spaces of the landscape through an abstract sensibility.
Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood’s Monotypes
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
Array: A Woodcut Opus by Rupert Deese
"Array" are twenty circular woodcuts by Rupert Deese, the series unfolded over seven years: Array 700 appeared in 2005, followed by Array 350 and Array 500 in 2006, with the project culminating in Array 1000 in 2012. Each print divides the circular field into a distinct tiling system. Beginning with nine equal radial divisions, Deese further organizes the space through additional radial lines and […]
Beauford Delaney: The Light Contained in Every Thing
The gallery’s fourth solo presentation featuring the work of celebrated American artist Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), Beauford Delaney: The Light Contained in Every Thing includes abstract paintings and works on paper created between 1954 and 1968. Taking its title from the introduction to Delaney’s 1964 solo exhibition at Galerie Lambert in Paris written by his close […]
William T. Williams: Word of Eye
William T. Williams: Word of Eye is the debut presentation for a new series of paintings by William T. Williams (b.1942). The gallery’s fourth solo exhibition of the artist’s work, the show includes eleven paintings created between 2024 and 2025. Imbued with a sense of monumentality that is expressed through their beauty, compositional complexity, and […]
Wallflowers
Wallflowers is a dialogue across time centered on one of art history’s most underestimated genres: the floral still life. Bringing together eleven paintings from the Frye’s collection with newly commissioned wallpaper designs from eleven contemporary artists, the exhibition explores how artists from the nineteenth century to the present have turned to floral imagery as fertile ground […]
Brush, Block, and Blood: Three Generations of Yoshida Women Printmakers
This exhibition traces over a century of innovation and artistic vision through the work of three generations of women printmakers from the celebrated Yoshida family: Fujio Yoshida (1887–1987), Chizuko Yoshida (1924–2017), and Ayomi Yoshida (born 1958). Accompanying Ayomi Yoshida’s commission for our Street Nihonga exhibition, Brush, Block, and Blood offers an introduction to her practice through the vibrant legacy […]
Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani
Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani explores the life and work of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani (1920–2012), whose art blends traditional Japanese aesthetics with the rawness of street life in New York City. Born in Sacramento, California, in 1920 and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, Mirikitani lived a life shaped by displacement, resilience, collaboration, and creativity across […]
Martine Gutierrez: Lottery
RYAN LEE is pleased to announce Lottery, an exhibition of photographs and video installation by Martine Gutierrez. Arising out of a recent performance in Paris that took inspiration from 1970s feminist performance art, Gutierrez incorporates her tool of choice, the camera, to subvert hierarchies of power and explore notions of control and access.
Erick Johnson: Continuum
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Erick Johnson titled Continuum. This is his third solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on February 26th from 6-8pm. Johnson’s abstract paintings explore the synergy between color and form. Irregular shapes stack and […]
Robert The: Book Work
Artist Robert The creates sculptural works in which books are transformed with subversive wit and scrupulous invention. Often working with remaindered volumes that were part of large-scale mass-market editions, the artist transfigures these objects through singular gestures such as through-slicing words and cutting out new iconic forms. Always uniquely appropriate to his source material, the […]
Robert The: Book Work
Artist Robert The creates sculptural works in which books are transformed with subversive wit and scrupulous sculptural invention. Often working with remaindered volumes that were part of large-scale mass-market editions, the artist transfigures these objects through singular gestures such as through-slicing words and cutting out new iconic forms. Always uniquely appropriate to his source material, […]
Robert The: Book Work
Artist Robert The creates sculptural works in which books are transformed with subversive wit and scrupulous invention. Often working with remaindered volumes that were part of large-scale mass-market editions, the artist transfigures these objects through singular gestures such as through-slicing words and cutting out new iconic forms. Always uniquely appropriate to his source material, the […]
Unseen Layers
“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein from a 1931 essay, included later in Ideas and Opinions and quoted by Eleanor Heartney in Unseen Layers catalogue. Ronald Feldman Gallery presents a series of […]
Celtic Art Across the Ages
Discover the many forms of Celtic creativity and their artistic legacies in this sweeping story that spans ancient to modern times. When you think of the word “Celtic,” what do you picture? Perhaps intricate knotwork designs, legendary warriors, or mystical spirituality? Maybe even a certain NBA team? Celtic Art Across the Ages will introduce visitors to the worlds of […]
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda: Scale and Tonality
Amos Eno Gallery, a non-profit, artist-run gallery, is pleased to present Scale and Tonality, a solo exhibition by artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, featuring the new series of work, KuroKuroShiro+. The exhibition will be on view from March 19 to April 26, 2026, with an opening reception on Friday, March 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. at […]
Mark Kelner: American Mosaic
Washington, DC - HEMPHILL is pleased to announce the virtual exhibition MARK KELNER: American Mosaic, beginning on Monday, March 30, 2026. The virtual exhibition will be viewable on hemphillartworks.com from March 30 - May 9, 2026. If we accept the idea that art is inherently both decorative and political, we begin to grasp its full […]
Slant on a Grecian Urn
Slant on a Grecian Urn
March 31– April 18, 2026 Opening Reception: Thurs., April 2, 2026, 6 – 8 pm Gallery Hours: Tuesdays – Saturdays: Noon to 6 PM Thursdays until 8 PM With Slant on a Grecian Urn, JEFF MILLER takes his witty and decorative slant on ancient Greek black figure pottery from the two-dimensional drawings that he showed […]