Exhibitions Archive
A Digital Wonder Room by MANUAL
Archive Fever
Husband-and-wife digital artist team Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, known collectively as MANUAL, presented their latest work, a site-specific installation commissioned by the Hood on the occasion of the museum’s twentieth anniversary. Reconsidering the intersections between art history, culture, and technology, this work explores the museum’s vast collection in playful and unexpected ways. Archive Fever unfolds at a changing pace that is completely determined by the computer program itself, so it is unlikely that repeat visitors to the museum would ever see the same form twice.
Relooking at Photographs, Deciphering the Details
The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly
Drawn from Nature
The complete plant lithograph series of Ellsworth Kelly will be on view in this exhibition, documenting the artist's forty years of creating a rich variety of line drawings of plants, fruits, and flowers with exceptional simplicity and beauty. An American artist of world renown, Ellsworth Kelly, born in 1923, is distinguished for his pure minimalist style. The sixty lithographs featured in this exhibition provide a critical link to the artist's vision of nature and his practice of abstraction.
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors and Drawings
Marks of Distinction
Highlighting a stunning diversity of works dating from 1769 to 1969, many of which have never before been on view, Marks of Distinction features the talents of such distinguished artists as John Singleton Copley, John James Audubon, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Joseph Stella, Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, and Romare Bearden. The exhibition reveals the rich variety of approaches, media, and subjects that have attracted American artists over the course of two centuries, ranging from Copley's magnificent 1769 pastel portrait of New Hampshire's last royal governor, John Wentworth, to early-nineteenth-century folk portraits and landscapes, lyrical nineteenth-century watercolor marines and interiors, dynamic images of New York City in the jazz age, and purely abstract compositions by pioneering artists associated with abstract expressionism and minimalism.
Gifts of Works on Paper from Harrington Sarah-Ann and Werner Kramarsky
The Mark of Minimalism
To complement Marks of Distinction, this exhibition follows the influence of minimalism over the past three decades. The Mark of Minimalism examines the lasting legacy of minimalist forms and visual strategies on the abstract work of some recent and contemporary artists, who, rather than completely denying process, often embrace the artist's mark and its expressive qualities. All of the works that will be on display were gifted to the Hood Museum of Art by Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, parents of Ann Kramarsky 92.