Nature/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.”

Abstract Texas presents the work of a few of Texas’ trailblazing artists of the mid-20th century who drew inspiration from their surroundings and used abstract styles to portray characteristics of expressive truth—regardless of the conservative tastes of the time.

Fluid 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.

The 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.

This intimate exhibition of Gego’s dramatic black-and-red prints celebrates the vibrant diversity of line, from zigzags and curves to diagonals and scribbles, and explores her interest in the intersection between line and space.

This 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.

This 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.

Animal is a lively film that takes you on an exhilarating journey through David Ellis’ spontaneous creative process. The rhythmic time-lapse shows the artist creating creatures, landscapes, and abstractions to an accompanying soundtrack.

This exhibition features a rare series of etchings and paintings from the imagination of Texas artist Valton Tyler, whose unique forms, brilliant colors, and uses of organic, mechanistic, and surreal shapes provide a glimpse into unparalleled worlds.

Horizon Lines uses visual perspective to remind us that our experience of space and our relationship to our environment—whether the sea, land, or constructed urban landscape—shifts depending on our different points of view.

American Photographs brings together more than 70 photographs that span the history of the medium and reflect the diversity of photographic practices during America’s industrial development, highlighting the central role of photography in the United States.

This exhibition features more than a dozen prints by Sam Francis, who combines loose strokes and splatters in order to create vibrant lithographs evocative of traditional symbols and biological specimens that pop with color and pulse with energy.

Border Cantos, a multidimensional collaboration between heralded photographer Richard Misrach and innovative artist-musician Guillermo Galindo, uses photography, musical instruments, and video to examine the border between the United States and Mexico through a revelatory, humanistic lens.

Identity explores community, celebrity, and individual representation through portraiture, delving into the idea that identity in American culture is as much influenced by individual presentation as factors that are externally determined.

Texas Folk Art features the spirited work of some of Texas’ most original painters who use a lack of convention and lively storytelling in order to create animated narratives about working, playing, and worshipping in Texas.