Telfair Museums celebrates its 17th year with I Have Marks to Make—a longstanding exhibition bringing together work by young and old to celebrate the healing and therapeutic power of art. Featuring art by individuals with disabilities and those who are in rehabilitation from traumatic injury or illness, the I Have Marks to Make 2011 exhibition [...]
Cultural heritage and individual expression are integral to the lifestyle and livelihood of the people of the South. Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art draws on this wellspring of tradition and originality through contemporary and traditional craft expressions created by Southern artists. Whether in the studio or at the kitchen table, each [...]
Showcasing the most recent series of work by renowned photographer Sal Lopes, this installation consists of over twenty photographs of bodies of water taken around the world. From the English Channel and the lakes of the Swiss Alps to Niagara Falls and the California coast, Lopes has employed his keen photographic lens to explore the [...]
Since the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded through Mary Telfair’s 1875 bequest, Telfair Museums has amassed more than 4,500 objects from Europe and America, ranging from a small number of Old Master paintings to a growing collection of contemporary works in a wide variety of media. Portraits to Pixels highlights pieces from [...]
In the early 1950s, New York-based artist Judith Godwin began removing representational elements from her paintings in favor of abstract approaches. She continued to push the developing abstraction in her work, and over the next decade, saw the imagery evolve into powerful nonobjective compositions. This exhibition explores a critical period in Godwin’s evolution, focusing on [...]
Including pieces by some of the most pivotal artists of the past fifty years, The Kirk Varnedoe Collection celebrates the life and legacy of Kirk Varnedoe through the presentation of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs created by the contemporary artists he most admired. A native of Savannah, Varnedoe was a distinguished scholar and chief curator [...]
Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah
This midcareer survey will consist of approximately 30 works, including photographs, drawings, videos, and mixed-media installations by Anthony Goicolea. Over the past decade, Goicolea has created a significant and highly successful body of work, and he has proven his skill [...]
In celebration of Savannah’s diverse and fascinating characters, the City of Savannah has undertaken an ongoing documentation effort that focuses on the city’s unique neighborhoods, and aims to meld the stories of past and current residents into publications, exhibitions and public programs. Ebb and Flow: Life & Community in Eastern Savannah is the most recent [...]
Curtis Bartone’s drawings and etchings focus on the uneasy relationship between human beings and the natural world. In particular, Bartone’s work addresses the concept of wilderness, which is typically presented as a distorted fiction rather than a mysterious, pristine reality. The artist fuses Italian Renaissance painting, seventeenth-century Dutch still life, and nineteenth-century scientific illustration with [...]
An engaged and widely respected figure in Savannah’s art community, as well as an outspoken environmental advocate, Betsy Cain has drawn limitless inspiration from the lush Low Country landscape since settling in Savannah in the early 1980s. From her beginnings as a figurative painter, she adopted a personal form of expressive abstraction, retaining an undercurrent [...]