Phoenix Art Museum Announces Exhibitions Through 2015

The Phoenix Art Museum has announced its current and upcoming exhibitions through the end of 2015. Scroll down for details!

For additional details, visit phxart.org.

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Paulo Bruscky: Art Is Our Last Hope
September 6-December 28, 2014

Sacred Stories and Images of the Buddha: The Vessantara Jataka Scroll
September 20, 2014-March 8, 2015

Focus Latin America: Art Is Our Last Hope
October 1-November 23, 2014

Fashioned in America
October 11, 2014-March 15, 2015

Don Coen: The Migrant Series
October 18, 2014-February 1, 2015

All That Glitters is Not Gold: Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography
November 1, 2014-March 1, 2015

Vanitas: Contemporary Reflections on Love and Death from the Collection of Stéphane Janssen
November 2, 2014-February 8, 2015

The West Select: A Western Art Invitational Sale and Exhibition
Sale: November 14, 2014
Exhibition: November 16-December 28, 2014

Mysteries from Europe: Works by Unidentified Artists
November 22, 2014-April 19, 2015

Through the Museum's long history, several paintings and drawings have entered the collection that are compelling works of art, but the artists who created them are, as yet, unidentified. This focused exhibition encourages looking closely and enjoying images without the associated baggage that comes with artistic biographies. During the run of the exhibition, it will be curious to see-will any of the mysteries of attribution be solved?

Exhibitions opening in 2015:

PLATINUM: Contemporary Photography
January 10-April 5, 2015

This exhibition brings together four of the leading photographers currently working in the historic platinum process. Lois Conner, Scott Davis, Kenro Izu and Andrea Modica work in different genre and styles, exploring the distinct characteristics of material. The exhibition will include landscapes, nudes, still lifes and portraits, all lusciously rendered in one of photography's most coveted processes: platinum.

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation
January 24-April 12, 2015

Andy Warhol: Portraits
March 4-June 21, 2015

Unique Photographs
March 7-September 27, 2015

This exhibition expectation that photographs are infinitely reproducible multiples. Typically photographs are printed from a negative or digital capture, and can be produced in editions ranging from a few prints to several hundred. However, some photographic processes - including daguerreotypes, tintypes and Polaroid prints - produce only a single, one-of-a-kind object. In other cases, artists choose to use materials in a way that produces a unique artwork, such as sculpting and collaging with or painting and drawing on photographs. The exhibition will include works from the entire history of the photographic medium, from the 1840s to the present day. Unique photographs by David Emitt Adams, Pierre Cordier, Betty Hahn, Bill Jay, Chris McCaw, Joyce Neimanas, Susan Rankaitis and Andy Warhol will be included.

Pattern Play: The Contemporary Designs of Jacqueline Groag
April 4-August 9, 2015

Following the prolonged trauma of World War II, a renewed public appetite for color and pattern flourished in Britain. Designers responded enthusiastically to the freedom of the post-war period, creating dynamic and stimulating patterns inspired by art, science, and everyday life. Czech-born Jacqueline Groag was one of the most versatile women designers of this period. From the colorful and playful to the abstract and representational, Groag's work contributed to Britain's spirit of renewal and defined the popular "contemporary" style. An extremely inventive artist with a finely tuned sense of color, Groag utilized collage and drawing to develop her exceptional child-like visions. Pattern Play: The Contemporary Designs of Jacqueline Groag provides a rare opportunity to view these original works on paper alongside Groag's lively, bold designs for furnishing textiles, dress fabrics, laminates, and other decorative surfaces drawn primarily from the Denver collection of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III.

American and European Art of the 1920s and 30s
May 2, 2015-TBD

From the highs of the Roaring '20s to the depths of the Depression and the beginnings of the Second World War, the art of the period expressed the interests and concerns of the era. This focused exhibition features highlights from the Museum's collection.

From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection
June 5-September 6, 2015

This exhibition presents masterworks of American Modernism, ranging from the early 1910s to the Post-war era. Through 65 masterworks by vanguards of American art who include Georgia O'Keeffe, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley, a wide range of modernist approaches are explored, with particular emphasis given to American cubism, the nature-based abstractions of the Stieglitz Circle, and regional modernism from the American Southwest. To complement the exhibition, a selection from Phoenix Art Museum's own superb modernist collection will be exhibited.

Culpepper Collection
Fall 2015

The West Select
November 13-December 27, 2015

Photographic Still Lifes
November 21, 2015-May 15, 2016

About Phoenix Art Museum - Since it opened in 1959 Phoenix Art Museum has become the largest art museum in the southwestern United States providing access to visual arts and educational programs in Arizona. In the last fifty years millions have visited the museum to view the over four hundred national and international exhibitions it has hosted. These are shown alongside Phoenix Art Museum's collection that has grown to over 17,000 objects of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, photography and fashion design. The museum hosts photography exhibitions through its landmark partnership with The University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.

Museum visitors can also enjoy the PhxArtKids gallery, the Dorrance Sculpture Garden, the Thorne Miniature Rooms of historic interiors and a collection of works by renowned Arizona artist Philip C. Curtis. Inside the museum is also full service restaurant Palette that features casual fare made from local organic produce and The Museum Store that stocks a comprehensive selection of art books, handcrafted jewelry, home décor, children's toys and other gifts.

Phoenix Art Museum serves as a valuable community resource and a center of enrichment for audiences of all ages. In addition to the exhibitions the museum hosts each year, it also offers a mix of always-available and date-specific public programs including film screenings, lectures, workshops, performances, tours and other special events.

For additional information please visit phxart.org or call 602-257-1880.

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