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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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.

Veiled Meaning: Deborah Paauwe

Posted: August 17, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Deborah Paauwe’s interest in photography began when she took a series of self-portraits in her youth, delighting in the potential for self-revelation through tightly focused images.

Growing Pains: Maria Marshall

Posted: August 14, 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 video screen showing a little boy with a light skin tone smoking is framed by two photographs showing the same boy wearing a fur and with a rat on his head.

Call of the Wild: Polly Morgan

Posted: August 12, 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 woman with a light skin tone and short, blonde hair stands before a white wall next to a sculpture. The sculpture is a metal construction with yellow birds attached to its top.

Falling into Place: Charlotte Gyllenhammar

Posted: August 10, 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 large canvas with colorful brushstrokes takes up almost the entire wall. There are several large photographs hanging on the wall. They are blurry and it is not visible what they are showing; one seems to depict a cage and birds.

Fabric of History: Sonia Gomes

Posted: August 9, 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...
A woman with a dark skin tone wearing an all-white outfit is photographing a sculpture attached to a wall of a snail in a crochet web. Behind her is a large sculpture made from textile, resembling a web-like, string-like object, woven from colorful threads.

Wonder and Whimsy: Anna Gaskell

Posted: August 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 green forest with someone wearing a dark, full skirt and white petticoat sitting upside down against a tree trunk with their stockinged legs and shoes exposed.

Returning the Gaze: Lalla Essaydi

Posted: July 25, 2017
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Learn more about artist Lalla Essaydi, whose work is featured in the current NMWA exhibition Revival.
A woman lying on her back gazes confidently out at viewer adorned and surrounded by polished bullet casings