On View
Concept : Process is derived from Sol LeWitt's notion that "the idea or the concept is the most important aspect" of art. This exhibition explores the intersection between artistic experimentation and abstraction in printmaking through early and later works by artists engaging conceptually...
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400–1800 examines artistic production in the early modern period through the lens of its distinctive colors; recipes for pigments, dyes, and glazes were often closely guarded secrets and critical to the value of a work of art. The...
Shared Ground explores Asian American art from the Hood Museum's collection by focusing on its cultural, social, and intellectual dialogues with broader American art. It seeks both to highlight the significance of Asian American art within the larger context of American art history and to...
The Puerto Rican artists in La Mirada Boricua convey the richness of their culture and pride of place as well as the fraught relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. The exhibition explores contemporary Puerto Rican visual culture while engaging with the archipelago's colonial...
The Changing Figure in American Art examines a variety of figural paintings and sculptures to explore the range of content that can be mapped onto the image of a person, whether known to the artist or not. These works from throughout US history demonstrate the elasticity of meaning that can...
Holding Knowledge: The Tenenbaum Family Collection features highlights from a significant gift of 112 modern and contemporary Native American ceramic objects from the family of Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum '58. The exhibition's almost 50 works explore Pueblo, Hopi, and Diné or Navajo...