Experience the wonder of summer through an enchanting exhibition at Munson Museum of Art in downtown, Utica, NY. Watercolor Stories: The Art of Charles E. Burchfield opens Friday, June 12, and remains on view through September 13.
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Mary Abbott (1921-2019) loved the water. Her father, Lt. Commander Henry Livermore Abbott, was a decorated submarine commander in the first World War and a Naval advisor to FDR during WWII. She inherited his love of the sea. A native New Yorker (and sometimes cover girl), she came of age there as an artist in the late 1940s, joining the ranks of the new Abstract Expressionist movement. Her contemporary alignments included David Hare, Barnett Newman, and Willem de Kooning.
Studio Shop Gallery presents Roland Petersen at 100: A Life in Painting, a major retrospective honoring the celebrated Bay Area Figurative artist’s centennial year. Opening Friday, May 8, with a black-tie reception celebrating Petersen’s life and legacy, the exhibition traces eight decades of artistic innovation—from early 1950s abstractions to his latest painting completed in 2026.
The Bruce Museum is pleased to announce Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth, on view in the Sculpture Gallery from January 24 through June 28, 2026. This exhibition presents a comprehensive primer of the internationally acclaimed sculptor Gisela Colón, featuring nine luminescent sculptures that explore the profound forces and energies of the natural world.
The Akron Art Museum is proud to present Kent Monkman: History Is Painted by the Victors, a sweeping exhibition of monumental paintings by internationally renowned Cree artist Kent Monkman. Through his bold and subversive lens, Monkman reimagines the genre of history painting to confront colonial narratives and offer urgent new perspectives on the past and present.
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, a current exhibition that explores contemporary Latinx artists’ innovations and interventions within established traditions of painting. The project celebrates painting from the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora, inviting discussion on a variety of themes and revealing the diversity and expansiveness present within the field today.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, the artist’s largest exhibition to date and his first major museum survey in more than a decade. Johnson, one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation, is known for his diverse practice, which spans painting, sculpture, film, and installation—all of which are included in this exhibition.
The spring exhibition which opened on March 14 at Rio Bravo Fine Art is a themed show by Dina D’Argo entitled Running with the Wolves. The work in this show reflects deep personal experiences in her life journey.
Line, gesture, and geometry coalesce in dynamic visual harmonies in painter James Kennedy’s exhibition, Spaces for the Mind and Eye, at Callan Contemporary.
Throckmorton Fine Art will present an exhibition of 65 distinguished jade carvings spanning the 800-year period of the Western Zhou (1046–771 BCE) and Eastern Zhou (770–221 BCE) Dynasties. Mandate of Harmony: Jade Carvings from the Western Zhou to the Eastern Zhou Dynasties will be on view from March 5 through April 11, 2026.
