Since their development and beginnings as cutting-edge technology, videogames have provided fertile ground as both a medium and inspiration for artists, particularly within the last decade. Contemporary artists have continued to modify existing games or game technology, design new games, create videos within game worlds, and employ the visual vocabulary of videogames in other media.
Game [...]
Despite coming of age at a time when modernism and abstraction had achieved a firm hold on the prevailing modes of art instruction throughout the country, West Fraser has remained a traditionalist, earning a place among the region’s leading practitioners of traditional realism. Fraser was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1955 and has spent most [...]
Robert Claiborne Morris began to re-examine his understanding of race in America after reading an early proof of Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Slavery by Another Name.” The revelation that slavery continued until World War II changed the way he saw his native South.
Morris began an odyssey in search of the images, objects [...]
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 [...]
Jan Reich (1942-2009) was one of the Czech Republic’s most celebrated 20th-century photographers. Using an older large-format camera, Reich spent decades photographing the crumbling buildings of Prague, evocative still lifes, and melancholy Bohemian landscapes.
Reich graduated from the renowned Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague during the school’s intellectual [...]
Harmonic Discord: Cityscapes by John Dowell
Other pieces on view
September 23 – December 30, 2011 / Beach Institute
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 25, 3 p.m.
Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris Street, Savannah
John Dowell has spent much of the past decade enthralled by the architecture, lights, and reflections that compose America’s urban landscapes. Using a large-format camera, Dowell has [...]
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 [...]