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April 10 - September 12, 2010
Herb and Dorothy: A Glimpse into Their Extraordinary Collection
The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
The Vogel Collection has been characterized as unique among collections of contemporary art, both for the character and breadth fo the objects and for the individuals who created it. Herbert Vogel spent most of his life working as an employee of the United Sates Postal Service, and Dorothy Vogel was a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, New York. By setting their collecting priorities about those of personal comfort, the couple used Dorothy's salary to cover the expenses of daily life and devoted Herbert's salary to the acquisition of contemporary art. In 1991, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., began its association with the couple, and has acquired many works from the Vogel Collection to share with the nation. The Fifty Works for Fifty States gift program of contemporary art is a collaboration between the Vogels, the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to distribute 2,500 works of art from the Vogel Collection to one museum in each of the fifty states. The Mississippi Museum of Art was selected as a beneficiary of this program, and is proud to share with the public the fifty pieces presented to its permanent collection. This exhibition is sponsored by Ross & Yerger Insurance, Inc. Click the title above for more information on this exhibition
April 10 - July 30, 2010
On the Wall/Off the Wall: Modern American Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection
The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
This exhibition presents a fascinating array of some fifty paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and photographs by 20th-21st century artists, and reveals some of the many fresh aesthetic directions the avant-garde has taken. Drawn from the Mississippi Museum of Art’s permanent collection, it also demonstrates a long-standing commitment to exhibiting and collecting the finest examples of American contemporary art. Among the artists included are Ida Kohlmeyer, Dennis Oppenheim, Peter Dean, John Alexander, Jonathan Santlofer, and Darra Keeton. Among those creators with Mississippi roots are Sam Gilliam, Ke Francis, Ed McGowin, George Wardlaw, and Valerie Jaudon. This exhibtion is sponsored by Watkins, Ludlam, Winter and Stennis P.A.
April 10 - July 30, 2010
The Luxury of Exercise: Small Sculpture and Works on Paper by Claudia DeMonte
The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
This exhibition features more than fifty works by artist Claudia DeMonte from her recent series on exercise. For more than thirty years, DeMonte has been interested in understanding the role of women in the world today. Her latest concept is based on the idea “that only in a wealthy country like ours do women have such abundance… of food, time, $$, to actually have the 'luxury' to exercise”. DeMonte creates hand carved familiar objects like running shoes and dumbbells that are covered in small pewter trinkets reminiscent of milagros, a traditional Catholic good-luck charm. Her works are humorous and powerful in presenting the reality of women’s choices in modern society.
May 8 - August 1, 2010
Pieces and Strings: Mississippi Cultural Crossroads 20th Annual Quilt Contest and Exhibition
Public Corridor
This annual presentation of award-winning quilts is on loan from Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, Port Gibson. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads sponsors Crossroads Quilters, a group that displays and sells its one-of-a-kind handmade quilts at the Crossroads Building in Port Gibson.
August 14 - September 19, 2010
Art by Choice
The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
Benefitting the Museum, works of art are on sale, with a select number of pieces offered during a live auction on September 11.
October 2, 2010 - January 16, 2011
Cabbagetown: Photographs by Oraien Catledge
The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
Beginning in 1980, and for more than 20 years, Oraien Catledge captured in his black and white photographs the inhabitants and surroundings of the neglected industrial area near downtown Atlanta known as Cabbagetown. His direct, unflinching images, reminiscent of the Great Depression work of Walker Evans, comprise a compelling visual record of an era and way of life that have vanished with modernization. By the time he stopped photographing in the rapidly gentrifying area, he had compiled a remarkable inventory of more than 50,000 negatives. This exhibition includes approximately eighty of those compelling images. A hard-bound book featuring Catledge’s photographs is published by the University of Mississippi Press and edited by Richard Ford and Constance Lewis, and is available for purchase in the Museum Store.
October 2, 2010 - January 16, 2011
River and Reverie: Paintings of the Mississippi by Rolland Golden
The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
The forty-five paintings included in River and Reverie are reminders that for much of his life, from his birthplace of New Orleans to his current residence in Natchez, Rolland Golden has lived near the Mississippi River and drawn upon it as a source of inspiration. Golden’s evocative riverscapes depict the iconic body of water at various times of day, and from many vantage points along its long, winding banks. Through the artist’s eyes, the viewer sees the great river as it courses through the land: from atop a high bluff, while blanketed in fog; beyond the trees and dense foliage, shimmering at sunset; or aglow at sunrise, beyond small-town shops and stores that lead to the riverfront.
October 2, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Mississippi Watercolor Society Grand National Watercolor Exhibition
Public Corridor
This annual presentation includes works from across the country in various water-based mediums, organized in conjunction with the Mississippi Watercolor Society.
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