Current Exhibitions
The Beautiful Bodice: Fashions from the 1890s
Sun, 05/05/2013 - Sun, 08/11/2013
In the 1890s, women’s fashions were changing dramatically. The bustle was disappearing from day dress, and tailored jackets and gored skirts were all the rage. The Gibson Girl look was very popular: puffy-sleeved shirt, floppy bow or cravat, long flowing bell skirt, and swept-up hair beneath a feather-topped hat and a parasol. Women were becoming bolder in their fashion choices — vivid colors were more widely available, and astonishing striped fabrics and delicate florals were in style.
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Illusions in Ink: Photorealist Prints
Sat, 05/18/2013 - Sun, 08/11/2013
From a distance they look like photographs. Close up, it is clear that they are actually serigraph prints that were painstakingly rendered to look like photographs. Photorealism — also known as hyperrealism, superrealism, and the new realism—is a type of painting, printmaking, and sculpture that originated in the United States in the mid-1960s and still thrives today. It involves the precise reproduction of a photograph by the artist’s hand in another medium.
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