CURRENT EXHIBITS [814]

"Process to Product: How the Artist Develops an Idea" An Artist Statement by Nancy Brillos Henderson The adornment of the body, whether for personal enhancement, group acceptance, or for the sheer joy of wearing a thing of beauty, whimsy, or provocation, has always been the major focus of the jewelry designer. The Arkansas Arts Center's small metals program has the good fortune to have a group of ins...   [more]

In August ARKEN opens an exhibition of works from the museum’s collection gathered together around the theme "communities". Through a selection of contemporary works ARKEN zooms in and out around our ideas of what the concept of ‘community’ covers. What the concept means is that several people have something particular in common, and this is often associated with the idea of shared viewpoints an...   [more]

Opening: August 24th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Art Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd is pleased to present "Melt", our winter group exhibition for 2013. This special selection of works, speaks of themes of winter, peacefulness, and joy.  Warm up with sumi-ink paintings by Janice Wong, oil paintings on canvas by June Yun, watercolour woodblock prints by Li Zhong Xiang, photography and video by Yuichi Takasaka, and oil paintings on canvas by...   [more]

Opening: February 8th   3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Opening: November 29th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This summer, the prestigious Potter Gallery at the Art Gallery of Ballarat will look part Formula 1 showroom and part motoring enthusiast's toolshed as it is taken over by a show that will shock some traditional fine art aficionados and delight others who might not normally think of darkening the door of an art gallery. While some visual artists seek to comment on society from the outside, with resu...   [more]

Opening: December 15th, 2012   9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Next Gen 2013 is about excellence and innovation in contemporary art and design practice, as seen in recent work by young artists in the Ballarat and Grampians region. Now in its 18th year the exhibition continues to be an important part of the Gallery's exhibition program and attracts a broad audience of both school students and the general public. It showcases the work of students who have just comple...   [more]

A reprise of the confronting and moving, larger-than-life sculptures of human suffering by Dadang Christanto, first seen here at the launch of the new Asian galleries in 2003 and again in 2005 and 2010. Christanto’s works speak eloquently for the victims of oppression and social injustice. The 16 male and female figures in this installation represent displaced victims, mutely carrying the bodi...   [more]

His images arrive straight through the nervous system and hijack the soul – The Times, UK Surveying Francis Bacon’s life and work, this is the first major exhibition in Australia of rare works by the master of post-war British art. With over 50 paintings – many of them monumental in size – as well as archival material from his studio, films and photographs, the exhibition covers every deca...   [more]

Opening: November 17th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The artists of Papunya Tula, who revolutionised Australian art, are renowned for their paintings on board and canvas. They have also produced a small number of works on paper over the past 40 years, which are highlighted in this exhibition. The Gallery is fortunate to hold 11 of the earliest works produced during Geoffrey Bardon’s time at Papunya in 1971. These exquisite works in pencil and wat...   [more]

Opening: December 13th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Is it possible to surmise the mystery of love or to reveal the emotions it engenders? From Polly Borland’s playfully dressed-up bodies, replete with sexual suggestion, to Tim Silver’s disintegrating sculpture of a stargazing young man, this exhibition considers the variegated terrain of love’s language – joy, elation, longing, loss, melancholia and memory. For the first time since 1988,...   [more]

Opening: January 31st   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Characterised by clarity of forms, understated decorations and subtle yet luminous colour glazes, ceramics are one of the most significant artistic contributions of the Korean peninsula. Such was the technical prowess of Korean potters, Chinese envoys in the 12th century reported glazes that had the 'radiance of jade and the clarity of water’. This display focuses on the two major periods in the d...   [more]

Opening: February 8th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Over 50 works by two iconic fashion photographers, from the Gallery’s photography collection. The work of Helmut Newton (1920-2004) and Bettina Rheims (1952- ) during the late 20th century was pivotal to the progression of fashion imagery into the 21st century. Despite the generation difference, both photographers explored the construction of gender identity through their photography. Th...   [more]

Opening: February 9th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Art Plural Gallery is pleased to announce the inaugural solo exhibition of French artist Fabienne Verdier in Southeast Asia. The exhibition runs from 25 January to 9 March 2013 and features some of her latest drawings and large-scale paintings. Fabienne Verdier will be sharing about her work and philosophy at an art talk organised by the gallery on a date to be confirmed later. A comprehensive, fully-illustra...   [more]

Katie Sorrenson pushes the boundaries of traditional printmaking practice to explore the transient nature of our visual experience and the pliant way in which we focus and re-focus our perceptions of time and space. The subjects for her digital prints are the banal aspects and objects of everyday domestic living that we take for granted; the chairs and couches we sit on, boxes and the numerous piles of...   [more]

Opening: February 6th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

"Cultural dignity is at the heart of my artistic practice. It is a quality that was suppressed during my upbringing and a characteristic which I aim to both restore and retain through my work. Many generations of cultural repression has inherently affected my family’s sense of identity and belonging, as well as my own. In the time of the Vietnam War, the Chinese who were living in Indonesia were su...   [more]

Members of the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery explore the theme “Relationships” during February and will host a First Friday opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. The show runs Jan. 29 to Feb. 24, 2013.              Pete Wroblewski is among the artists supporting the theme with two bronze sculptures. “Threshold” was inspired by the final scene of the opera “Blue...   [more]

Opening: February 1st   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM