Looking at the New West
Contemporary Landscape Photography
June 7 - December 15

Curated by William Wylie, Adjunct Curator of Photography and Associate Chair for Studio Art, McIntire Department of Art

This exhibition will feature six contemporary photographers—Robert Adams, Lois Conner, Michael Lundgren, Mike Osborne, Mark Ruwedel, and Joni Sternbach—who engage the landscape of the American West as their subject. More >

Mike Osborne, American. Vertellus (Peak), 2012. Archival inkjet print, 28 x 35 in, 71.12 x 88.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Mike Osborne

Ansel Adams
A Legacy
June 7 - October 13

Curated by William Sherman, Founding Director, OpenGrounds, and William Wylie, Adjunct Curator of Photography and Associate Chair for Studio Art, McIntire Department of Art

The 138 photographs of the Meredith Collection are original works of legendary American photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Documenting the arc of his prolific career between the late 1920s and the early 1980s, the collection includes early works as Adams first explored his medium, and masterworks from his most productive period dating from the late 1930s through the 1950s. More >

Ansel Adams, American, 1902–1984. Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1940. Gelatin silver print, 15 5/8 x 19 in, 14.29 x 48.26 cm. Collection of Lynn and Tom Meredith, 1.78.024. Photograph courtesy of Center for Creative Photography. © 2013 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

Frenemies
Animals in Art
June 7 - August 4

Curated by Stephen Margulies, Volunteer Curator

Are animals our friends or our enemies? Are we ourselves animals or are animals alien to us? Although humans have defined themselves through their "superiority" to animals, we admire them, love them, and have often turned them into myth, allegory, or even divinity. More >

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528. Rhinoceros, 1515. Woodcut, Meder third edition, 10 x 12 in, 25.4 x 30.48 cm (sheet). Gift of the Honorable Hugh S. Cumming, 1982.30.5

From Alaska to the Mountain Peaks of Central Mexico
Depicting Native American Life in the Late Nineteenth Century
June 7 - August 4

Curated by Mary Jo Ayers, Adjunct Curator of Native American Art, and Diane Boucher, Guest Curator

This exhibition considers the ways in which photographers and artists represented Native American life in the late nineteenth century, a period in which the culture of these indigenous peoples was rapidly disappearing. Photographers documented what they believed to be a "dying" culture, while painters and sculptors romanticized the American Indian in a desire to portray an essential part of American history. More >

Hermon Atkins MacNeil, American, 1866–1947. The Sun Vow, 1899, cast 1919. Bronze, 33 x 21 x 23 in, 83.8 x 53.3 x 58.4 cm. Courtesy of Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA, Gift of The Norfolk Society of the Arts, 32.6.1

Émilie Charmy
August 23 - December 22

Curated by Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art and Associate Professor, McIntire Department of Art

In the first US retrospective of the work of Émilie Charmy (1878-1974), The Fralin will rediscover this distinctive and provocative artist, one of the most original female voices of modern art in Paris during the first half of the 20th century.
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Émilie Charmy. French, 1878-1974 Self-Portrait with an Album, (c. 1907-1912) Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 x 35 1/16 in Gift of Pamela K. and William A. Royall, Jr., 2011.TD.14