Agents of Power: Body Adornment in African Art
Through July 7, 2024
Note: Museum is closed 4/25 and 4/29 for Art Alive installation and de-installation. Special Art Alive hours and ticketing are in place 4/26-4/28. Learn More
Note: Museum is closed 4/25 and 4/29 for Art Alive installation and de-installation. Special Art Alive hours and ticketing are in place 4/26-4/28. Learn More
On View
Through June 16, 2024
See selections from Berenice Abbott’s monumental photography project Changing New York that capture the rapid transformation of New York City in the 1930s. Explore modern skyscrapers, harbors, highways, city squares, neighborhoods, storefronts, and hand-painted signs that capture the essence of a specific time and place. Abbott’s photographs changed the course of photography in the twentieth century and are a reminder of the excitement and joy ignited when seeing the world anew.Berenice Abbott, "Metropolitan Life Building, New York," ca. 1935. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Cam and Wanda Garner, 2020.340. © Berenice Abbott/Getty Images, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
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
Featured Exhibition
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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