This fall, the Jepson Center’s Eckburg Atrium was transformed with an intriguing installation of five suspended, wooden birds created by community artist Matt Hebermehl. Incorporating both personal and public references, Birds in Flight represents strength, energy, and love, while also symbolizing Hebermehl’s journey as a local artist and the collective growth and vitality of Savannah’s [...]
This exhibition of highlights from the outstanding collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum will examine the complex and heterogeneous nature of American art in the mid-twentieth century. Featuring thirty-one of the most celebrated artists who came to maturity in the 1950s, the exhibition traces the history of this period through forty-three key paintings and [...]
Dennis Martin’s photorealistic metalpoint drawings of the human figure are brilliantly crafted, inviting the viewer to look closely at these remarkably lifelike images. Martin, whose work was featured in the Telfair’s 2006 exhibition The Luster of Silver, utilized the tone and delicacy of metalpoint to create exacting, beautifully lit portrayals of his human subjects and [...]
In September, the Telfair’s Kahlil Gibran holdings made their Jepson Center debut in the Varnedoe and Levitt Galleries. This ever-popular collection of drawings, watercolors, and paintings by the Lebanese-born, visionary artist and writer Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) spans his career—with works from his first exhibition at photographer Frederick Holland Day’s studio in Boston in 1904 to [...]
For the first time in eight years, the Telfair presents an exhibition from its growing collection of work by self-taught artists, largely from the southeastern United States. The show features many works acquired in recent years that have never been exhibited. Highlights include newly acquired sculptures by Tennessee folk sculptor Bessie Harvey and a rare, [...]
I Have Marks to Make enters its sixteenth year at Telfair Museums, emphasizing the role that visual, language, and performing arts can play in the lives of individuals with disabilities and for those in rehabilitation from injury or illness. Taking place in the second floor education spaces of the Jepson Center, the exhibition will feature [...]
As the oldest public art museum in the South, the Telfair has long collected images of the people, places, and pastimes of this region. While the museum has never dedicated itself solely to collecting art from the South, the Telfair has taken great pride in building prominent holdings of works by artists who lived or [...]
Twilight Visions explores the city of Paris as the literal and metaphoric base of Surrealism, and examines the revolutionary social, cultural, aesthetic, and political activities and meanings of the movement during the 1920s and 30s. Over 100 works—mainly vintage photographs but also including films, books, and period ephemera—have been selected for their power to suggest [...]
The evocative imagery of local photographer Margaret Brennan–now on view in the Jepson Center’s Trustees Gallery–speaks to the beauty and mystery inherent in the world around us. Brennan is well-known for her elegant and dramatic images of flowers, local scenes, and travel views, and her use of alternative techniques including infrared photography. Two still lifes featured in the show have been accepted [...]
New York-based artist Philip Perkis is one of the country’s most widely respected photographers. In this exhibition of work spanning his fifty-year career, Perkis’ inimitable vision is brought to light. With a gift for capturing moments of heartbreaking honesty and unparalleled beauty, Perkis presents a world on the brink of transcendence.
These images, taken in the [...]