Nmwa Exhibitions

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Artist Spotlight: Maren Hassinger

Posted: November 9, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
A woman with a light skin tone and gray, short hair is standing in a gallery space next to a sculpture lying on the ground. The sculpture is a large, round shape, and a smaller, round ball of newspapers folded into thin tubes and tied together. The many tubes tied together look like brushes made from newspaper. They are black and white with some pops of color in between.

Spotlight: Mary Lovelace O’Neal

Posted: October 17, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
A view of a gallery with white walls and a gray floor. A large canvas with colorful brushstrokes takes up almost the entire wall. On a gray background, brushstrokes in pink, red, blue, and brown take up half of the canvas, while the other half remains gray.

Striking Balance: Fanny Sanín’s Process

Posted: October 7, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Upon first glance, paintings by Fanny Sanín (b. 1938) look impeccably neat. Whether on paper or canvas, the decisive lines and solid colors of her geometric abstractions almost conceal evidence...
Abstract painting of varying sizes of rectangles divided into three vertical sections flanked by thin, light blue stripes. The central composition includes red cross-shapes with cream, grey and black rectangles; on either side are symmetrical black, brown, and gray horizontal stripes.

American Abstraction: Expanded

Posted: October 4, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
NMWA hosts the exhibition Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, opening to the public on Friday, October 13, 2017. Mildred Thompson, Untitled (Wood Picture), ca. 1966; Found wood...
Abstract painting features a vivid yellow background covered by circles, daubs, and straight and wavy lines in red, orange, cobalt, sky blue, and violet. Arcing red strokes evoke concentric circles. Straight lines in other hues radiate out from the center circle like a starburst.

Wonder Women: Flappers Meet Underground Comics

Posted: September 11, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
NMWA could not host an exhibition called Wonder Women! without featuring several exceptional comics! The first group of objects on view in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center...
Comic book cover featuring a woman in a bathing suit with a blue bottom with stars and a red top. She has a light skin tone and is appearing oversized as she tramples across a busy highway, shattering planes with her hand. The title reads "Ms" and "Wonder Woman for President."

High Profile: Bettina von Zwehl

Posted: September 8, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
View of a gallery space with a pink and white wall. Three large photographic portraits of babies and young children are hanging next to each other, taking up the whole wall.

Crocheted Creatures: Joana Vasconcelos

Posted: September 7, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
A mass-produced, ceramic German shepherd sits upright and alert with mouth open and tongue extended as if panting. Panels of elaborate hand-crafted crochet in shades of mint, citron, and emerald green form a skin-tight web that entirely envelops the dog.

Every Rose Has Its Thorn: Alison Saar

Posted: September 6, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
Lithograph print on a blue background portrays a nude woman laying horizontally across the length of the paper. In place of hair, a bottle tree appears to sprout from the figure’s head.

“Bossy” Blue Gowns: Beverly Semmes

Posted: September 5, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
Three long fabric trains in two shades of blue, mounted on a far wall and cascading onto the floor like a waterfall.

Humanly Possible: Patricia Piccinini

Posted: August 23, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In celebration of NMWA’s 30th anniversary, and inspired by the museum’s focus on contemporary women artists as catalysts for change, Revival illuminates how women working in sculpture, photography, and video use spectacle...
A sculpture consists of two metallic-orange motor scooters manipulated to resemble male deer. Leather seats become haunches, dashboard dials resemble faces, and multiple rear-view mirrors morph into antlers. The serpentine, hybrid animal-machines appear to spar for dominance.