Past Exhibitions
Results
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Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath
June 16–September 16, 2018This exhibition presents the first major survey of the art of Dave Heath, one of the most original and respected photographers of the mid-20th century, juxtaposing loss and hope through works that strive for human connection.
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Jan Staller: CYCLE & SAVED
February 24–September 23, 2018In this exhibition, Staller reflects on consumerism and waste in contemporary society through works that trace the life of everyday objects, meditating on what we choose to keep, what we throw away, and what happens to the objects we consume.
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A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
February 17–May 13, 2018A New American Sculpture investigates the integral relationships between modernism, classicism, and popular imagery in the sculpture of these four immigrant artists, showing how they redefined sculpture’s expressive potential during this rapidly changing time.
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Ellen Carey: Dings, Pulls, and Shadows
January 17–July 22, 2018This exhibition features seven key works that explore the artist’s interest in color, light, and the photographic process through photographs that defy the traditional photographic convention of capturing identifiable subjects.
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In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar
December 20, 2017–June 17, 2018In Her Image traces the development of female identity through portraiture, from young girlhood to middle age. Matar uses her photographs to show how the forces that shape female identity transcend cultural and geographic boundaries.
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Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas
October 14, 2017–September 23, 2018Commanding Space celebrates the work of five contemporary female sculptors who have driven the traditional medium into new directions and have breathed new life into old materials to create sculptures that connect the diverse themes of history, myth, and memory.
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Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art
October 7, 2017–January 7, 2018Wild Spaces, Open Seasons brings together iconic works that explore outdoor subjects from the early 19th century to World War II, exploring American artists’ fascination with depicting a communion with nature that was receding in the face of industrialization.
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Caught on Paper
September 23, 2017–February 11, 2018Inspired by the coinciding exhibition Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, this exhibition of works on paper from the Carter’s collection explores the popular outdoor subjects that have permeated American culture and captivated American artists for centuries.
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Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden
August 9, 2017–January 14, 2018Archiving Eden displays photographs inspired by the work of international seed banks and ecologists to construct a visual meditation on botanical diversity and showcases the pure aesthetic pleasure of seeds and their transformations into plants.
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Nature/Culture
July 15–December 10, 2017Nature/Culture explores different facets of the dichotomy between nature and culture through photographs, reflecting on how nature counterpoints and enlivens our built environment and on what qualifies as “natural.”
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The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art & Technology
June 3–September 3, 2017The Polaroid Project surveys the history of the innovative photographic company Polaroid, its intersection with art, science, and technology, and the rich legacy of the technological and artistic experimentation that the company enabled.
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Darryl Lauster: Trace
March 25, 2017–March 25, 2018Trace features 10 fragmented marble tablets carved with phrases from a variety of founding documents and manifestos, uniting mottos intended for entirely different purposes to obscure their original meaning and call into question the objectivity of history.
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Fluid Expressions: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
March 18–September 10, 2017Fluid Expressions celebrates the work of Helen Frankenthaler, an inventive and whimsical printmaker who infused a sense of spontaneity and immediacy into a methodically worked medium not often used by abstract expressionists.
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Homer and Remington in Black and White
March 4–July 2, 2017This exhibition highlights the overlooked works on paper that helped catapult two great American artists to household names. Their ability to distill the essence of a scene using only black and white was fundamental to their success.
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Avedon in Texas: Selections from In the American West
February 25–July 2, 2017This exhibition of Richard Avedon’s evocative portraits of the people of the American West, commissioned by the Carter, uses the subjects’ faces, clothes, and postures to convey not only their hard living but the full embrace of human existence.