Exhibitions

Chain Reaction looked to the influential early twentieth-century cartoonist Rube Goldberg to set the stage for contemporary artists engaged with humorous explorations of mechanical devices and functions. Goldberg's critique of the industrial era at the turn of the century includes a cache of drawings describing... See more 

As scientific breakthroughs continue to affect every aspect of our lives, an increasing number of artists—as creators and investigators themselves—have been examining the meaning and urgent implications of genetic research. Some work on their own, while others collaborate with scientists, but in either case, these... See more 

The Shakers believed all labor was worship that would bring them closer to God and that simplicity is the embodiment of purity and unity. We see the fruits of their labor in such diverse objects as an oval box, a staircase, a chair, or even a ladder. They lived, worked, and worshiped in communal villages, and... See more 

David Miller communicates complex narratives with his Abstract Expressionist-influenced paintings, creating a tension between the conscious and the subconscious, reality and unreality. David Miller: A Retrospective featured a selection of paintings from the artist’s entire career. His focus on contour and line, his... See more 

Focusing on two specific domains, the human body and northeastern North America, The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art and Science examined how we depict realms inaccessible to our senses. Artwork by eighteen contemporary artists combined with five centuries of maps and atlases,... See more 

Sound technologies—inventions like the telephone, tape recorder, loudspeaker, radio, and computer-synthesized speech—have fostered a reconfiguration of acoustic space and a desire for artistic inquiry into the idea of sound in a new electronic universe. S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds presented an exploration of sound... See more