Art Foundations

Art Foundations explores how various art forms have been produced throughout the last two centuries. It presents a succession of artwork groupings across multiple media and disciplines, bringing together works not usually shown in the same space. Meant to be visited clockwise, each gallery provides a different angle on what we consider art, with each grouping questioning how art is made, why, where, and by whom.

This presentation shifts the lens through which we look at art, allowing us to explore gallery after gallery, the conception and the material of artmaking, and the spaces where it is created. Art Foundations brings together academically trained and untrained artists as well as visual arts, architecture, design, and glass, displaying the breadth and interconnectedness of the museum's collection.

Opening Thursday, August 1, 2024

Members will get exclusive access from 12 to 4 p.m..
The public will be able to visit starting at 4 p.m.

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Exhibition curated by Christine Vendredi, Chief Curator.

Faig Ahmed, Osho, 2015, fine hand knotted in 100% N2 wool in 14/70 (245 knots per square inch),142×118 in. (360.7×299.7 cm), Museum purchase with funds provided by Donna J. MacMillan