The Telfair presents an exhibition of interactive works in the Morrison Community Gallery by artists Blake Malouf, Ian Bellemy, Marie LePichon, Wei-Hao Chang, Wei-Jei Tseng, and WeiJin Zhon. All of the artists have studied interactive design and game development with SCAD professor Andrew Hieronymi, whose installation Virtual Ground is on view in the Jepson Center. [...]
The Telfair will partner with the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina and display a selection of fine paintings from our permanent collection in the Art Cetner’s Walter Greer Gallery. The exhibit will include perennial favorites such as George Bellows’ Over to Blackhead, Jermome Myers’ The Callico Sellers, and Eliot Clarks’s Smoke Plumes of Savannah. Also [...]
I Have Marks to Make enters its fifteenth year at the Telfair Museum of Art, providing an important community forum on artists with disabilities and art used in a therapeutic context. Featuring works by nearly one hundred artists of all ages, the exhibition will again take place in the Morrison education gallery and adjacent spaces [...]
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 [...]
Encompassing over seventy works drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 examines the work of forty-three American painters drawn to Holland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These artists, responding to the negative aspects of rapid urbanization, established colonies in six [...]
Co-organized by the Japan Foundation and the Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta, Counter Photography introduces an exciting selection of photographs by eleven contemporary Japanese artists. Reacting to a society defined by constantly shifting values, demographics, and technologies, these artists employ varied approaches to photographic expression and representation. Some delve beyond external appearance to expose [...]
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran consists of fifty-eight works of photography and video by renowned Iranian artists. The first survey of contemporary Iranian photography to tour the United States, the exhibition provides a rare and revealing view of life and experience in Iran. Among Iran’s most celebrated photographers, the twenty artists represented in the [...]
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 [...]
This captivating exhibition features a diverse selection of work by French printmaker Erik Desmazières including architectural views, building interiors, grotesque figures, and still lifes. Although major one-person shows of Desmazières’ prints have recently been mounted by museums in France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands, Constructs and Inventions marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in [...]
Reflecting the American predilection for card-playing and gaming during the Federal era, the card table was one of the most common articles of furniture imported to Savannah in the years following the American Revolution. In this small, specialized exhibition, the Telfair Museum of Art draws primarily from its permanent collection to survey card tables and [...]