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The New Salon

March 8–August 19, 2024

The New Salon: A Contemporary View offers a modern take on the prestigious tradition of the Parisian Salon with the diversity and innovation of today’s art world. This exhibition integrates a broad array of artists from multiple mediums and genres, including Pop Surrealism, Street Art, and Graffiti.

Asheville’s Naturalist

February 22–June 10, 2024

This exhibition features a selection of botanical and wildlife prints by renowned watercolor artist Sallie Middleton.

American Art in the Atomic Age

November 10, 2023–April 29, 2024

American Art in the Atomic Age features works created during the 1940s–1960s. Much of the art during this time expressed the uncertainty of the era, often relying on the automatism and biomorphic forms that had originated with Surrealism.

Counter/Balance

October 4, 2023–July 29, 2024

Counter/Balance: Gifts from John and Robyn Horn presents important examples of contemporary American craft, including woodworking, metalsmithing, fiber and pottery by renowned American artists Albert Paley, Hoss Haley, Toshiko Takaezu, Stoney Lamar, Mary Merkel-Hess, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Kay Sekimachi, Bob Stocksdale, and many others. 

Beyond the Lens

September 8, 2023–February 12, 2024

Beyond the Lens presents key works from the collection of Louis K. & Susan Pear Meisel, revealing this profoundly influential yet under-recognized art movement, bringing together paintings and works on paper dating from the 1970s to the present, illuminating the very definition of Photorealism from its founding up to today.

Romare Bearden

August 9, 2023–January 22, 2024

This exhibition highlights works on paper and explores many of Romare Bearden's most frequently used mediums including screen-printing, lithography, hand colored etching, collagraph, monotype, relief print, photomontage, and collage.

The Art of Food

June 16–October 22, 2023

This exhibition brings together works from some of the most preeminent postwar and contemporary artists who used food as their subject matter.

Altruistic Genius

April 14 – August 21, 2023

Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller’s Plans to Save the Planet brings the inventions and designs of R. Buckminster Fuller to Western North Carolina and introduces visitors to Fuller’s strategies for the sustainability of humans and the planet relating to housing, transportation, mathematics, and engineering.

Pulp Potential

March 8–August 7, 2023

The artworks in this exhibition reveal the breadth of possibilities and unique qualities that exist when artists choose to employ and even create handmade paper. From the colored paper of Sol Lewitt’s Eight Pointed Stars to the work of artists like Paul Wong and Nancy Cohen made in collaboration with the preeminent handmade paper studio Dieu Donné, paper is transformed from support to conceptual center.

Too Much Is Just Right

February 2, 2023–May 29, 2023

Too Much Is Just Right: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration features more than 70 artworks in an array of media from both the original time frame of the Pattern and Decoration movement, as well as contemporary artworks created between 1985 and the present. The artworks in this exhibition demonstrate the vibrant and varied approaches to pattern and decoration in art. Sections will explore the history of pattern and decoration’s use in American art during and after the now formally recognized movement was established. Artworks from the 21st century elucidate contemporary perspectives on the employment of pattern to inform visual vocabularies and investigations of diverse themes in the present day.

Luzene Hill

January 27, 2023–June 26, 2023

An enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Luzene Hill advocates for Indigenous sovereignty—linguistically, culturally, and individually. Revelate builds upon Hill’s investigation of pre-contact cultures. This has led Hill to incorporate the idea of Olin—the Nahuatl word for the natural rhythms of the universe—in Aztec cosmology in her work. Before Europeans arrived in North America, Indigenous societies were predominantly matrilineal. Women were considered sacred, involved in the decision-making process, and thrived within communities holding a worldview based on equilibrium. Olin emphasizes that we are in constant state of motion and discovery. Adopted as an educational framework, particularly in social justice and ethnic studies, Olin guides individuals through a process of reflection, action, reconciliation, and transformation.

2023 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

January 25–March 6, 2023

The Asheville Art Museum is a regional affiliate partner of the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, hosting an annual juried competition for students in grades 7–12 from all across Western North Carolina.

2024 Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards

January 24–March 25, 2024

The Asheville Art Museum is a regional affiliate partner of the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, hosting an annual juried competition for students in grades 7–12 from all across Western North Carolina.

Sherrill Roland

November 18, 2022–March 20, 2023

Asheville-born and Raleigh-Durham-based interdisciplinary artist Sherrill Roland’s socially driven practice draws upon his experience with wrongful incarceration for a crime he did not commit and seeks to open conversations about how we care for our communities and one another with compassion and understanding. Through his work, Roland engages visitors in dialogues around community, social contract, identity, biases, and other deeply human experiences. Comprised of artwork created from 2016 to the present, Sherrill Roland: Sugar, Water, Lemon Squeeze reflects on making something from nothing, lemonade from lemons, the best of a situation.

Natural Collector

October 19, 2022–September 11, 2023

The selection of objects displayed illustrates how Bresler’s eye for collecting craft not only draws attention to nature and artists’ interest in it, but also accentuates her role as a natural collector with an intuitive ability to identify themes and ideas that speak to one another.

In the Age of the Etching Revival

October 12, 2022–January 23, 2023

This exhibition presents highlights from the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection by artists engaging the intaglio printmaking technique of etching in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Rebel/Re-Belle

September 24, 2022–January 16, 2023

Rebel/Re-Belle: Exploring Gender, Agency, and Identity | Selections from the Asheville Art Museum and Rubell Museum combines works from two significant collections of contemporary art to explore how artists have innovated, influenced, interrogated, and inspired visual culture in the past 100 years.

Border Cantos | Sonic Border

July 22–October 24, 2022

Presented in English and Spanish, Border Cantos | Sonic Border offers perspective on the challenges of migration, inviting us to bridge boundaries. When experienced as a whole, the images, instruments, and emanating sounds create an immersive space in which to look, listen, and learn about the complicated issues surrounding the Mexican-American border.

American Perspectives

June 18–September 5, 2022

American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection showcases over 80 stellar works of folk and self-taught art. Beautiful, diverse, and truthful; the art illuminates the thoughts and experiences of individuals with an immediacy that is palpable and unique to these expressions.

Draped and Veiled

May 25–October 10, 2022

Joyce Tenneson’s Transformations series, which she began in 1985 and engaged with through 2005, features the human figure interweaving elements that feel vaguely mythological or symbolic. This exhibition features 12 large Polaroids from the poetic series.

Southern Rites

April 1, 2022–July 4, 2022

Gillian Laub engages her skills as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist to examine the realities of racism and raise questions that are simultaneously painful and essential to understanding the American consciousness. Southern Rites is a specific story about 21st century young people in the American South, yet it poses a universal question about human experience: can a new generation liberate itself from a harrowing and traumatic past to create a different future?

Faces of Change

March 18–May 23, 2022

Youth Artists Empowered (YAE) in collaboration with Tepeyac Consulting and the City of Asheville launched a public art initiative in fall 2021 to bring attention to the immediate effects of climate change on our community.

William Waldo Dodge Jr. and Johnny Green, Teapot, circa 1928, hammered silver and ebony wood, 8 × 5 ¾ × 9 ½ inches . Gift of William Waldo Dodge III, 2005.26.03.59. © Estate of William Waldo Dodge Jr.

Useful and Beautiful

February 23–October 17, 2022

William Waldo Dodge contributed to American Arts and Crafts silver’s relevancy persisting almost halfway into the 20th century. The aesthetics of the style were dictated by its philosophy: an artist’s handmade creation should reflect their hard work and skill, and the resulting artwork should highlight the material from which it was made.

The Wyeths

February 12, 2022—May 30, 2022

The Wyeths: Three Generations provides a comprehensive survey of works by N. C. Wyeth, one of America’s finest illustrators; his son, Andrew, an important realist painter; his eldest daughter, Henriette, a realist painter; and Andrew’s son Jamie, a popular portraitist.

2022 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

January 24–March 7, 2022

The Asheville Art Museum is a regional affiliate partner of the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, sponsoring an annual juried competition for students in grades 7–12 from all across WNC.

A Hand in Studio Craft

January 19–September 5, 2022

A Hand in Studio Craft highlights recent gifts to the Museum’s Collection and loans from the family of glass artist Harvey K. Littleton. This exhibition places Harvey and Bess Littleton’s collection into the context of their lives, as they moved around the United States, connected with other artists, and developed their own work.

Stained with Glass

January 12–May 23, 2022

Stained with Glass features imagery that recreates the sensation and colors of stained glass. The exhibition showcases Harvey K. Littleton and the range of makers who worked with him, including Dale Chihuly, Cynthia Bringle, Thermon Statom, and more.

A Living Language

November 19, 2021–March 14, 2022

This exhibition features over 50 works of art in a variety of media by more than 30 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and Cherokee Nation artists. The exhibition highlights the use of the written Cherokee language, a syllabary developed by Cherokee innovator Sequoyah.

Ruminations on Memory

November 19, 2021–March 14, 2022

Featuring a rare presentation of all nine prints from Robert Rauschenberg’s Ruminations portfolio, Judy Chicago’s Retrospective in a Box portfolio, and selections from the Museum’s Collection, this exhibition contends with the act of remembrance and reflection.

Gestures

October 22, 2021–January 24, 2022

This exhibition, drawn from the Museum's Collection with additional select loans from regional collectors and institutions, explores works in a variety of media that speak to the vibrant abstract experiments in American art making during the middle of the 20th century.

Modernist Design at Black Mountain College

October 22, 2021–January 24, 2022

The experiment known as Black Mountain College (BMC) began in 1933 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. This exhibition highlights the Asheville Art Museum’s collection of design from BMC, like the rarely seen Gregory furniture, and situates it in the context of its influences and surroundings at BMC.

A Dance of Images and Words

September 29, 2021–January 10, 2022

This exhibition presents Graves’s eight prints alongside the portfolio frontispiece and a page of Cuperman’s text to immerse visitors in the collaborative dance of the tango.

Rural Avant-Garde

August 20, 2021–November 1, 2021

This exhibition showcases a selection of collaborative creative works that emerged from nearly four decades of the Mountain Lake Workshop series, a program sited in rural southwestern Virginia.

Walter B. Stephen Pottery

July 28, 2021—February 21, 2022

Artist Walter B. Stephen contributed to Western North Carolina’s identity as a flourishing site for pottery production and craftsmanship in the early 20th century.

Golden Hour

July 9–October 4, 2021

Golden Hour: Olympians Photographed by Walter Iooss Jr. highlights dozens of photographer Walter Iooss Jr.’s images from the Museum’s Collection.

Precious Medals

July 9–October 4, 2021

Precious Medals: Gold, Silver, Bronze highlights works from the Museum’s Collection including glass, ceramic, fashion, and sculpture that use the same metals that are given to the top three placing athletes in an Olympic competition.

Ward H. Nichols, Other Uses, circa 1974, oil on canvas, 30 × 28 inches. Museum purchase in honor of Estelle Marder, 1978.04.21. © Ward H. Nichols.

Artistic Tribute

July 9–October 4, 2021

Artistic Tribute: Representation of the Athlete pays homage to the historic Olympic tradition of including the arts as a competition.

Public Domain

May 19–September 27, 2021

Public Domain: Photography and the Preservation of Public Lands presents works drawn from the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection by artists looking both regionally and nationally at lands that are either state or federally managed or have become so.

Our Strength Is Our People

May 7–August 2, 2021

This exhibition surveys the life’s work of Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), the father of American documentary photography.

Old World/New Soil

May 7–August 2, 2021

As an American art museum, the exhibition calls attention to the fact that we have decided to collect those artists who came to this country—either at their own prompting or out of necessity. As they adopted America as their new home, we have, in turn, embraced them, their creative output, and their artwork.

Huffman Gifts of Contemporary Southern Folk Art

April 7, 2021–January 17, 2022

Allen & Barry Huffman have been collecting contemporary Southern folk art for the past 40 years. Within their collection are subsets of folk art including self-taught artists driven to share their messages, crafts for the tourist market, and southern pottery.

Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom

April 2, 2021–June 21, 2021

Featuring more than 40 works, Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom examines the career evolution of modern painter Beauford Delaney within the context of his 38-year friendship with writer James Baldwin.

2021 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

February 6–March 8, 2021

The Asheville Art Museum is a regional affiliate partner of the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, sponsoring an annual juried competition for students in grades 7–12 from all across WNC.

Meeting the Moon

February 3, 2021–July 26, 2021

The year 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Apollo space program at NASA, but that was hardly the beginning of humankind’s fascination with Earth’s only moon.

Connecting Legacies

January 27, 2021–May 17, 2021

This exhibition features archival objects from the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection presented alongside artworks from the Museum’s Black Mountain College Collection to explore the connections between artworks and ephemera.

Across the Atlantic

January 22–April 19, 2021

This extraordinary exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism Through the 19th century in France. The show examines the sometimes complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 1880s and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed.

Vantage Points

December 18, 2020–March 15, 2021

Vantage Points: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art is a selection of works from the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum which reveals the strength of the photographic image in the late-20th and early-21st century in the United States.

Michael Sherrill, Blue Spiral Bottle, circa 1997, glazed stoneware, 12 ½ × 12 × 3 ½ inches. Asheville Art Museum, Gift of Michael & Barbara Keleher in honor of John Cram, 2010.07.20.85. © Michael Sherrill.

Fantastical Forms

November 4, 2020–April 5, 2021

This exhibition highlights the Museum’s Collection of sculptural ceramics, especially from the 1980s until today.

Question Bridge

October 7, 2020–August 30, 2021

Question Bridge: Black Males is a project that explores critically challenging issues within the African American male community by instigating a trans-media conversation among Black men across geographic, economic, generational, educational, and social strata of American society.

Muddying the Waters

September 9, 2020–February 1, 2021

This exhibition of ceramics explores the movements and connections of makers as a way to push boundaries of regionality and tradition while highlighting the richness and complexity of makers and practices around North Carolina. Curated by former Curatorial Fellow and Windgate Curatorial Intern Sarah Kelly.

Ernest Trova

March 11, 2020–January 25, 2021

Ernest Trova creates in the F.M. Manscapes portfolio a world for his iconic Falling Man figure, an every-person he saw as a symbol for a person's evolution through lived experiences. Vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and repetitive forms merge to communicate a sense of movement and environment as the prints detail the Falling Man's layered journey.

Dancing Atoms

March 6, 2020–January 4, 2021

This exhibition explores the legacy of Barbara Morgan and her lifelong observation of “dancing atoms,” which inspired her photographic work.

Marianne Preger-Simon, Portrait of Merce Cunningham, 1953, ink on paper, 11 ⅜ × 10 inches. Black Mountain College Collection, gift of the Artist, 2009.17.12.41. © Marianne Preger-Simon

Reverberations

March 6, 2020–January 4, 2021

Movement in static mediums such as painting, drawing, and photography is difficult to express, yet many artists feel called to explore it. Movement serves as an impetus for creation—to either capture it or create it in entirely different mediums. The works here, selected from the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection, highlight additional approaches to rendering a lasting imprint of the ephemeral.

Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds

March 6, 2020–January 4, 2021

Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds create an immersive experience born out of the iconic Pop artist's interest in innovation and experimentation. To ensure the safety of Museum visitors and staff, Silver Clouds will be presented as a touch-free experience.

A Telling Instinct

February 21–November 30, 2020

A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon & Contemporary Art juxtaposes Audubon prints with the work of artists who continue this tradition of animal allegories and metaphors in the 21st century.

2020 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

February 1–March 9, 2020

The Asheville Art Museum is the regional host of the annual Scholastic Art juried competition for students in grades 7–12 from all across WNC.

Points of View

November 14, 2019–March 9, 2020

Points of View examines recent gifts to the photography collection and how the donors' interests become self-evident when their gifts are displayed together.

50 Years of Western North Carolina Glass

November 14, 2019–November 2, 2020

This exhibition highlights the beauty of the Moores' decades of collecting foundational artists in the Studio Glass Movement.

Collecting Craft & Recent Gifts

November 14, 2019–March 16, 2020

This gallery presents some of the new treasures to enter the Collection, with a special focus on craft.

Appalachia Now!

November 14, 2019–February 3, 2020

Appalachia Now! provides a regional snapshot of the art of our time—a collective survey of contemporary Southern Appalachian culture.

In the Midst

March 26-April 30, 2019

POP-UP EXHIBITION: In the Midst: Environmental Imagery from the Asheville Art Museum illustrates the inherent grandeur and beauty of nature as well as the human impact on the environment.

Artwork featured in the 2019 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

2019 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

February 4-March 12, 2019

POP-UP EXHIBITION: The Asheville Art Museum is the regional host of the annual Scholastic Art juried competition for students in grades 7-12 from all across WNC.

The James Goode Collection from the Asheville Art Museum

POP-UP EXHIBITION: The making of pottery in North Carolina has a long history. Native American potters are known to have made pots from the start of the 16th century, and European colonizers of the 1700s arrived with knowledge of their local ceramic techniques.

Interwoven

POP-UP EXHIBITION: This exhibition collectively demonstrates innovations in the traditional art of basketry. The artists’ conceptual media vary between organically dyed reeds, stoneware ceramic, woven wire and even hand-made paper.

Looking Through

POP-UP EXHIBITION: Looking Through: Glass from the Asheville Art Museum considers glass as a medium of internal and external contemplation. These transparent glass works evoke a sense of inner worlds made visible.

Detail of a painting in the exhibition

Neighbors

July 6 - September 18, 2018

Neighbors: Local Work from the Asheville Art Museum features artists living and working in and near Asheville.

Red Hot in the Blue Ridge

May 19 - October 14, 2018

Red Hot in the Blue Ridge features glass from the Museum’s Collection. Glass as an art form emerged in Western North Carolina when several key artists established independent studios in the 1960s and began training students. Since then, the Museum has built its collection of exquisite glass.

Construction team member works on site.

Making It New

May 19 - October 14, 2018

As construction work continues on the NEW Asheville Art Museum at 2 S. Pack Square, we are busy planning for our grand re-opening in late summer 2019!

Wood carvings featured in the exhibition.

Turning Traditions

March 10 - May 13, 2018

Edward, Philip, and Matt Moulthrop represent three generations of Southern woodturners whose minimalist works capture the warm beauty and explore the eccentricities of wood. Each artist crafts in his own style, from Ed’s large abstractions to Philip’s experiments with branch “mosaics” and Matt’s glassy finishes that reveal the story of the tree.

Crafting Abstraction

March 10 - May 13, 2018

Crafting Abstraction brings together a selection from the Museum’s Permanent Collection that highlights the importance of craft to the development of modernist abstraction in the United States.

2018 WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards

January 27-March 4, 2018

The Asheville Art Museum is the regional host of the annual Scholastic Art juried competition for students in grades 7-12 from all across WNC.

A work featured in the Unwrapped exhibition.

Unwrapped

October 28, 2017 - January 21, 2018

Every year since 1988, technology entrepreneur and avid collector Peter Norton commissions an artist to create an original work of art that is then produced in multiples and sent to friends and select art institutions.

Artwork featured in Home Land

Home Land

July 22 - October 22, 2017

Inspired by the Museum’s recent acquisition Home Land, a cutting-edge contemporary basket by Eastern Band Cherokee artist Shan Goshorn, this exhibition explores the connections that southeastern Native artists have to their ancestral homelands.

A poster featured in Hear Our Voice.

Hear Our Voice

May 20 - July 16, 2017

Hear Our Voice features a selection of posters organized by The Amplifier, a “visual media experiment dedicated to amplifying the voices of grassroots movements through art and community engagement.”

A sliver pitcher by William Dodge Jr.

Dodge Silver from the Asheville Art Museum

On view through October 16, 2018

Already a young architect educated at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, William Waldo Dodge Jr. learned silversmithing under one of his occupational therapists Margaret Wheeler Robinson, his future wife.

Western North Carolina Pottery from the Asheville Art Museum

April 19, 2017-April 3, 2018

The works in this exhibition are just a small selection from the ceramics collection of the Asheville Art Museum, which consists of over 500 ceramic objects of both utilitarian and sculptural forms.

Western North Carolina Glass from the Asheville Art Museum

April 19, 2017-April 3, 2018

The glassworks seen in this exhibition highlight the creativity and diversity of expression available through this challenging medium, and are but a glance into the Asheville Art Museum’s extensive collection of studio glassworks from regional artists.

Permanent Collection | Art Banners on Construction Fencing

Through Spring 2019

As the Asheville Art Museum is under major construction to build the new Asheville Art Museum in the heart of downtown Asheville, we have installed a series of banners on the fence that surrounds the construction at 2 South Pack Square.

A detail of an artwork in the exhibition

Spotlights On the Slope

March 18, 2017 - January 21, 2018

The Spotlight Series brings fresh perspectives to works from the Museum’s Collection.

Pop ‘n’ Op

March 18 - May 14, 2017

Popping up at our temporary gallery On the Slope is an exhibition featuring Pop and Op art from the 1960s and 1970s.

A work featured in the exhibition.

Creating Change

September 11 - October 30, 2016

Within the Museum’s Permanent Collection are works of art with political content that speak directly to the concerns of our society. This exhibition features artists who make work as a catalyst for dialogue. By addressing political, social and environmental issues, these works aim to effect change in communities and invite visitors to reexamine the world around them.

An artwork featured in the exhibition.

Geometric Vistas

August 6 - October 30, 2016

Geometric Vistas: Landscapes by Artists of Black Mountain College provides visitors with the opportunity to explore abstract landscapes and cityscapes created by artists who studied and taught at Black Mountain College between 1933 and 1957.

A work featured in Appalachian Innovators

Appalachian Innovators

February 6-July 21, 2016

The founding members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild were almost all women, and many of these women led organizations designed to boost the economic standing of mountain families. As the decades passed, men took more of a role and eventually the leadership.

A curator handles a work of art

Vault Visible

January 16 - October 31, 2016

Visitors get a glimpse into the day-to-day activities of the Museum’s curatorial department in a new exhibition Vault Visible: Behind the Scenes at the Asheville Art Museum.

Selections from the Permanent Collection: 140 Years of American Art

September 30, 2013-October 30, 2016

In this exhibition, Museum Curatorial staff examine the Collection from a chronological point of view while highlighting works of great interest. This ongoing installation will allow visitors to chart the evolution of American art from the late 19th century to the early 21st century.

William Wegman, Red Detachment, 2006, Polaroid print on paper, 24 ¼ × 20 ¾ inches. 2007 Collectors' Circle purchase. 2007.33.02.96. © William Wegman.

William Wegman

August 22, 2015-January 31, 2016

Over many years, William Wegman has been working on a project he calls Cubism and Other–isms, where with his trademark wry humor he mines art historical precedents to create images of startling beauty.

A photograph featured in the exhibition.

Heritage & Home

July 18 - October 11, 2015

Heritage & Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm features approximately 40 images, as well as a selection of historic photos and artifacts, from photographer Ken Abbott’s Hickory Nut Gap Farm Project.

A quilt featured in the exhibition

Man-Made

June 27 - December 27, 2015

Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters examines the unique aesthetics and techniques that men bring to a craft long-associated with feminine arts and labor.

A painting featured in the exhibition.

From New York to Nebo

May 16 - September 13, 2015

From New York to Nebo is an in-depth study of the life, subjects and style of the “Ashcan artist of Appalachia,” Eugene Healan Thomason (1895–1972).

A jewelry piece featured in the exhibition.

Flourish

April 18 - August 16, 2015

Flourish: Selected Jewelry from the Daphne Farago Collection presents contemporary jewelry exemplifying the creativity in this specialized craft. Each diverse work of art speaks to history, ideas, craftsmanship, materials and process.

A painting featured in the exhibition.

Jack Tworkov: Beyond Black Mountain

March 27 - June 14, 2015

A founding member of the New York School, Jack Tworkov (1900–1982) is regarded as one of the great American artists of the 20th century.

A photograph featured in the exhibition.

Keep All You Wish

March 13 - July 12, 2015

Inside or outside his photo studio, Hugh Mangum (1877–1922) created an atmosphere –respectful and often playful – in which hundreds of men, women and children genuinely revealed themselves. Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum features a selection of images of early 20th century Southern society that show personalities as immediate as if they were taken yesterday.

An artwork featured in the exhibition.

Go Figure

February 14 - April 12, 2015

Since humankind first recorded ochre handprints in ancient caves, the human form has been an inspiration to artists. Go Figure: Faces and Forms draws upon the Museum’s Permanent Collection to show how the body has been interpreted and presented across media and time.

An artwork featured in the exhibition.

John Heliker: The Order of Things

January 31 - May 2, 2015

John Heliker: The Order of Things charts the career of a significant American artist. Heliker (1909–2000) was an adept draftsman and accomplished painter who developed a highly personal and expressive approach to drawing during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) years.

A detail of a painting in the exhibition

What You See Is What You See

November 28, 2014 - March 15, 2015

Post-Painterly Abstraction is a term coined by art critic Clement Greenberg in 1964. With this term he noted a move away from the grand gestural abstractions of the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters.

A sculpture featured in the exhibition.

Mary Frank: Finding My Way Home

September 26, 2014 - January 18, 2015

Over the course of her career, Mary Frank has worked in sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking and recently encaustic and photography, suggesting that her primary loyalty is not to a particular way of working or to any medium, but rather to the power of direct expression and to the act of creation itself.

A detail of a work in the exhibition

X, Y + Z: Dimensions in Sculpture

September 13, 2014 - February 8, 2015

X, Y + Z: Dimensions in Sculpture is an exhibition of contemporary works of art, highlighting a variety of three-dimensional pieces.

A basket featured in the exhibition.

Hands, Heart, Mind

September 5, 2014 - January 11, 2015

The Museum is pleased to present an exhibition highlighting our growing Cherokee art collection. The art of the Cherokee represents the longest tradition of art and creativity in Western North Carolina.

A detail of the installation

Sol LeWitt: Creating Place

August 9, 2014 - October 31, 2016

LeWitt created more than 1,200 wall drawings, both in black and white and in color, that have been viewed by millions of visitors. Wall Drawing #618 is an immersive experience for Museum visitors, creating a very special place.

A photo of the installation.

Community: Sharon Louden

July 19, 2014 - October 31, 2016

The second work in the Museum’s Artworks Project Space, Sharon Louden’s innovative installation Community is a continued conversation based on a series of work that she started in 2013 that traces its path through installation, animation, painting and drawing.

A work featured in the exhibition.

Dox Thrash

June 28 - September 7, 2014

This important exhibition features more than 30 works by Thrash, including carborundum mezzotints, the process for which he was famous.

An artwork featured in the exhibition.

Minna Citron

June 6 - September 14, 2014

Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction is a retrospective exhibition that features work by award-winning American painter and printmaker Minna Citron (1896–1991).

A work featured in the exhibition.

Farm to Table

May 31 - November 16, 2014

Farm to Table: American Silver highlights different but inter-connected uses of American silver – agricultural awards and table service – as they progressed over the last 150 years.

A photograph featured in the exhibition.

Ralph Burns

March 29-July 20, 2014

Ralph Burns has long been recognized as a documentary photographer whose images have captured the diverse and enigmatic nature of ritual and religion, and who has explored the subjective and often defining nature of belief, worship, and culture.

A work featured in the exhibition.

Take 10

March 15 - August 31, 2014

Take 10: Collectors’ Circle 10th Anniversary celebrates the generosity of the Asheville Art Museum’s Collectors’ Circle, a membership group that encourages the exchange of ideas and interests, art learning, connoisseurship and collecting.

A painting featured in the exhibition.

Pierre Daura

March 15 - June 22, 2014

In 1998, the Museum received a gift of 36 paintings by Pierre Daura. The works were given by the artist’s daughter Martha Daura.

A work featured in the Blueprints exhibition.

Blueprints: A Collaboration

February 7 - May 25, 2014

Artist Susan Weil, who was a student at Black Mountain College, and photographer José Betancourt began collaborating in 1996, eventually creating a dynamic series of blueprint photographs, or cyanotypes.

A work featured in the exhibition.

Social Geographies

January 25 - May 18, 2014

The art world operates within geographic frameworks. Spatial divisions between “inside” and “outside” impact how the art world describes, identifies and validates artists featured within the exhibition, Social Geographies: Interpreting Space and Place.

A still from the film

Robert and Ingrid Wiegand

January 7 - April 25, 2014

The video works of Robert Wiegand and his first wife, Ingrid, were made in the 1970s when video art was first making an appearance in the art world.

A work featured in Cityscapes.

Cityscapes

November 2, 2013 - March 9, 2014

Perhaps best known today for depictions of men on Wall Street, American contemporary artist Ben Aronson also creates eloquently expressive cityscapes.

Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation Folio II, Folder 5, 1972, screenprint on paper, 15 × 40 inches. Black Mountain College Collection, gift of The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, 1997.01.05.65E. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Josef Albers

October 12-March 16, 2014

Gathered in part from the Museum’s Collection, this exhibition presents a selection of prints by German-born artist and educator Josef Albers (1888–1976) from the portfolios Interaction of Color (1963) and Formulation: Articulation (1972).

A painting featured in the exhibition.

Rebels With a Cause

September 28, 2013 - January 26, 2014

Rebels With a Cause presents selected paintings, drawings and sculptures from the Huntsville Museum of Art’s recently acquired Sellars Collection of Art by American Women.

A sculpture featured in the exhibition

A Sense of Balance

April 13-September 1, 2013

Stoney Lamar’s sculpture is created primarily through a unique approach to multi-axial lathe work, giving his pieces a distinct sense of line and movement unlike other works of turned wood.

Sallie Middleton: A Life in the Forest

July 16 – December 10, 2010

Sallie Middleton has long been considered one of the most gifted painters of plants and animals. She possessed a remarkable eye for detail, a skilled hand to record what she saw and a keen imagination to shape her enchanted images.