Assembled in honor of the late Savannah native, scholar, and MoMA curator Kirk Varnedoe (1946-2003), the Kirk Varnedoe Collection contains some of the finest examples of contemporary art in the Telfair’s permanent collection. This remarkable group of works on paper, a perennial favorite among Telfair members and visitors alike, includes pieces by some of the [...]
In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South. These are intimate portraits of workers left behind when jobs are outsourced or replaced by new technology, people who are more related to the “old economy” than the new. They are cotton pickers [...]
For nearly 40 years, artist Preston Russell has created paintings inspired by the people, architecture, and history of Savannah and the Low Country. Often populated with ghost-like figures from the past, Russell’s canvases possess an enigmatic quality and a surprising element of tension, further heightened by the artist’s unique compositional choices. Viewing Russell’s work, it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Beyond Utility: Pottery Created by Enslaved Hands showcases remarkable pots made by enslaved people in the mid-19th century. Although crafted for utilitarian purposes, these jars, jugs and other vessels exemplify the work of experienced and talented artisans. Using a variety of forms and decoration, the featured objects demonstrate how largely unknown potters carefully shaped, molded, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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