PAST EXHIBITIONS

Highlights from the Adkins Collection
March 7 - December 28, 2008 (Opening reception: Thursday, March 6 | 7 - 9 pm)
The Adkins Collection is among the most important private collections in the nation of works by the Taos artists as well as Native American works of art. It includes more than 3,300 objects, including 1,100 two-dimensional works, 370 pieces of pottery, over 1,600 examples of jewelry and silverwork, and nearly 250 pieces of other Native arts. The premiere exhibition will allow visitors an opportunity to view highlights from this extensive collection recently entrusted to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa.

The Jerome M. & Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist: Hung Liu: Now and Then
March 29 - July 6, 2008 (Reception for the Artist: Thursday, April 3 | 5 - 8 pm)
Born in 1948, Hung Liu grew up in Beijing during the time of Mao Tse-tung. IShe received a B.F.A. in Education from Beijing Teachers College, China and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Liu is currently a Professor of Art at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her paintings combine western aesthetics with Chinese subject matter. Hung Liu is known for her stunning reproductions of historical photographs of Chinese life (many taken by Western visitors), which address the "cultural collisions" she faced while coming of age during the decade of the Cultural Revolution in China.

China: Insights
April 17 - August 17, 2008 (Opening reception: Friday, April 18 | 7 - 9 pm)
This exhibition brings together the work of seven photographers from mainland China: Chen Yuan Zhong, Hua Er, Jia Yu Chuan, Li Nan, Yang Yan Kang, Yu Haibo, and Zhang Xinmin. While earning their livings as either freelance or staff photographers (or, in one case, as a freelance writer), each has undertaken the creation of a long-term documentation of one or more aspects of Chinese culture that he or she feels reflects something vital about China now -- whether that is something emerging or something vanishing. China: Insights is being circulated by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.

Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs
June 21 - August 31, 2008 (Opening reception: Friday, June 20 | 7 - 9 pm)
Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons from the Age of the Romanovs tells a story that has rarely been explored: that of the Russian icon or sacred devotional image during 300 years of Romanov rule (1613-1918). The exhibition illustrates the impact Western culture had on icon painting, how icons from the period departed from tradition, and the emergence of decorative icon covers, or oklads. Drawn from the collection of the Hillwood Museum & Gardens, Washington, DC, the exhibition is being circulated by International Arts & Artists, a Washington, DC based exhibition service that focuses on cross-cultural, international exhibitions.