The Telfair’s Kirk Varnedoe Collection, including pieces by some of the most pivotal artists of the past fifty years, will be on view this winter at the Jepson Center for the Arts. Assembled in honor of the late Savannah native, scholar, and MoMA curator Kirk Varnedoe (1946-2003), this remarkable group of works on paper contains [...]
Telfair will present a dynamic new installation by artist Shih Chieh Huang in the Lewis Gallery of the Jepson Center in conjunction with the museum’s 2010 Pulse: Art and Technology Festival. Shih Chieh Huang (b. Taiwan, 1975) creates kinetic, glowing, “breathing,” environments of low tech electronic creatures inspired by the evolutionary adaptations of life forms [...]
Selections from the Telfair’s collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs are currently on display in the upstairs galleries of the Telfair Academy. The installation features newly-acquired works, some of which are on view to Telfair members and visitors for the first time, alongside a selection of collection favorites.
This exhibition examines the important role Savannah played in the production and collection of silver in Georgia’s largest coastal city. With some exceptions, silver manufacturing in Savannah lasted approximately a century, from the second half of the 18th century to just before the Civil War. However, collecting the precious metal in its decorative form continues [...]
This exhibition marks the first major retrospective of collage and assemblage artist Aldwyth. For more than two decades, Aldwyth has produced her art in relative seclusion from the larger art world. Now seventy-three, she lives and works in an octagonal house on the edge of a salt marsh on Hilton Head Island, where she creates [...]
Organized by the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon and guest curated by Georgia artist Corinne Colarusso, Painters’ Reel shows the energy and connections shared among contemporary Georgia painters. In addition to Colarusso, who is based in Atlanta, artists represented in the exhibition include Savannah painters Betsy Cain and Marcus Kenney.
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