Art of Devotion
Through January 26, 2025
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On View September 7, 2024–January 5, 2025
Mark your calendar for a groundbreaking exhibition. Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World showcases more than 200 works spanning 13 centuries that invite visitors to explore the intersections of art and science, the marvels of the heavens and earth, and the crafts and customs of humanity. See ancient tools and treasures, ornate jewelry, lavishly illustrated manuscripts, and large-scale works of contemporary art. Step into a world of wonder, as defined by a celebrated medieval Islamic text, celebrating the ingenuity, craftsmanship, and enduring legacy of Islamic scientific and cultural heritage.
Star map depicting the Northern & Southern celestial hemispheres (with constellations inscribed in Devanagari). India, Jaipur, ca. 1780. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Pritzker Collection, Chicago. Photo credit: Michael Tropea.
On View
Through October 27, 2024
See an intimate exhibition of works by one of the most renowned and enduring American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Jasper Johns (b. 1930). This exhibition features 14 works on paper by Johns, ranging in date from 1960 to 2021, including six drawings on loan from the artist. Explore Johns' artistic journey and enduring legacy in the captivating exhibition, Jasper Johns: Drawings and Prints, on view now.
Jasper Johns, Green Angel, 1991. Etching. Gift of the artist, 2006.135. © 2024 Jasper Johns and ULAE / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Published by Universal Limited Art Editions.
On View at MOPA@SDMA
Through September 1, 2024
Picture This demonstrates that a photograph is truly worth a thousand words. This exhibition looks specifically at the most recent acquisitions to the Museum collection, the majority of which were gifted by local collectors or by the artists themselves. From anonymous nineteenth-century photographers to renowned artists such as Berenice Abbott, Martín Chambi, Mary Ellen Mark, Arnold Newman, Alison Rositer, Aaron Siskind, Mike and Doug Starn, Louise Dahl Wolfe, and many more, the photographs presented here reflect a diverse range of processes spanning nearly two hundred years.Hendrik Kerstens, Spout, 2011. Archival pigment print on photographic paper. Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art: Gift of the Lawrence Friedman Trust, 2021.007.007. © Hendrik Kerstens.
On View at MOPA@SDMA
Through September 1, 2024
See nearly 60 works by Holly Roberts, an early experimenter in mixing paint and photography, transforming shapes, and applying textured surfaces, who remains a force expanding the medium of photography. Driven by inner terrors, and exploring a strong connection to nature, both human and animal, Roberts’ art is a symbolic reflection of her life and the imperfections in the world around her.Holly Roberts, Angry Face, 2021. Mixed media collage. © Holly Roberts, Courtesy of Holly Roberts.
On View at MOPA@SDMA
April 27 through October 20, 2024
Explore historical and contemporary narratives of identity and heritage. Cara Romero is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe raised between the contrasting settings of the reservation in the Mojave Desert, California, and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. This background informs her visceral approach to representing cultural memory, collective history, and lived experience from a female Native American perspective. By staging theatrical compositions infused with dramatic color, she takes on the role of storyteller, using contemporary photographic techniques to depict the modernity of Indigenous culture, illuminating Native worldviews alluding to the supernatural in everyday life.Cara Romero, Naomi, 2017. Archival pigment print. © Cara Romero
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The Visible Vaults recreates part of The San Diego Museum of Art’s most carefully guarded area, a place that is invisible to most visitors—the vaults—where the thousands of works of art in our collection are stored. See this insider’s look at hidden masterpieces, where visitors are invited to open drawers, peek into virtual storerooms, and take the time to sketch and observe some of the great treasures of the collection.
"Gauri Ragini of Malkos," ca. 1680. Opaque watercolor on paper. Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. 1990.962
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