Upcoming Exhibitions

Dates subject to change

Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - Saturday, August 24, 2013

Her Stories is a both a retrospective look at the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, and an overview of some of the most compelling contemporary art being made today from the perspective of South Asian women’s identity. These 43 key artists explore their own cultural identities, and yet this intimate exhibition also examines how cultural expectations, history, and myths affect how we see ourselves in the world today.

This exhibition presents works by established and emerging artists from across the South Asian Diaspora, including the United States, South Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom, all incorporated into a singular room installation that includes archival photographs,...

Jason Salavon: A Seamlessness Between Things
Saturday, June 15, 2013 - Saturday, August 31, 2013

Jason Salavon is on the forefront of new media art, and has been for over two decades. With a background in computer programming and software design, he employs the language of digital prints, video, painting, and sculpture to explore scientific systems and technology, as well as aesthetics and art history - all using software of hi own design as an image-generating tool.

Salavon's Taubman project, A Seamlessness Between Things (traveling straight from its debut in New York), consists of 10 real-time video projections of synthesized data. This interactive room-sized work takes input from masses of public, communally generated information from the Internet and TV signals to reveal...

Alter Egos and the Magical Other: John Bankston, Amy Cutler, Jeremiah Johnson, Fred Stonehouse
Saturday, June 15, 2013 - Saturday, August 31, 2013

For the last two decades, a number of leading-edge artists have pursued figurative work as a way to explore alter egos - ambiguous imaginary selves that express alternate personalities, drives, fears, and desires. Often placed in surreal or magical narratives, these "others" are rendered in hybrid styles that in part are informed by the figural traditions of folk artists, a strategy that uses the authentic or "real" to heighten the fantastic scenarios.

This exhibition features paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by four contemporary artists from across the country who interpret the notion of projected selves in varying ways.

In his recent work, John Bankston (b....

Suzanne Stryk: Notes on the State of Virginia
Saturday, June 15, 2013 - Saturday, August 24, 2013

For more than 25 years Suzanne Styrk (b. 1953, Chicago IL) has recorded her experiences with nature in sketchbooks that are both journals of walks near her Bristol, Virginia home, and scientific documents of the flora and fauna she observes. These pages have served as foundations for hundreds of mixed-media works that blend the natural history of a place with Stryk's own direct experiences with each environment.

Stryk's first Taubman museum exhibition debuts a new series of assemblages that were inspired by Thomas Jefferson's book Notes on the State of Virginia (1781). Like Jefferson's detailed account in both the places Jefferson described as well as the five ecologically distinct regions of the...

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

Saturday, September 14, 2013 - Saturday, December 28, 2013

This exhibit presents the work of nine photographers from diverse backgrounds that in the 1960's lived and photographed from within the Southern Freedom Movement. They were "movement photographers," decidedly distinct from news photographers, and their images reflect that difference. Seven photographed for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the only civil rights organization with its own photogrpahy department. The other two photographed for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

SNCC emerged from student protest that erupted on February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina when four black students refused to leave a...

Yoko Ono Imagine Peace: Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
Saturday, September 14, 2013 - Saturday, January 11, 2014

A simple message, delivered on billboards, posters, postcards, badges, T-shirts and rubber stamps, Imagine Peace exists as a seed, activated individually and collectively in the minds and actions of those who encounter it. Like much of Yoko Ono's artwork over the past forty years, Imagine Peace is a work that is dependent upon a collective realization on the part of her audience. As she declared in 1972 single, Now or Never, " A dream you dream alone is only a dream, but a dream we dream together is reality." As is often the case with her work, this germinating idea is manifested in multiple variations.

The exhibition focuses on the thematic ideals of peace and love....