January 13– May 5, 2019 Scheller, Rodale, and Fowler Galleries Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement examines this eminent American artist’s diverse and innovative career through both celebrated and rarely exhibited projects made during the last 30 years. The exhibition presents artwork growing out of Weems’s critical explorations of history, a focus that is […]
September 9, 2018 to Spring 2020 Trexler Hall Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #793A, with its arcs of vibrant color ink washes, will transform and energize the Museum’s Trexler Hall this fall. LeWitt believed that the idea behind a work of art is more important than the physical artwork itself. For the last forty years […]
September 9, 2018–January 6, 2019 Fuller Gallery In the Soviet Union, photojournalists were told to create images that showed their country’s progress toward a bright future. This exhibition examines the role of truth and censorship in the work of two important Soviet photojournalists, Dmitri Baltermants and Mark Markov-Grinberg. Baltermants (1912-1990) spent forty-five years on […]
September 9 through December 16, 2018 Rodale Gallery Puerto Rican-born, Easton-based artist Angel Suarez-Rosado will create a site-specific installation at the Allentown Art Museum. Suarez-Rosado transforms ordinary objects, imbuing them with power, in a practice related to Espiritismo (Spiritism) and Santería, which combine elements of Yoruba religion with Catholicism. Conceived of as an offering […]
August 25 – December 9, 2018 Fowler Gallery Molas are colorful reverse-appliqué panels made by the Guna, an indigenous people who live in Panama. Since the 1600s, the Guna have maintained trade and diplomatic relations with Western countries. Guna women began using foreign trade cloth to create bold mola panels for their blouses around […]
August 25 through December 9, 2018 Scheller Gallery Power and Piety presents exquisite paintings, sculpture, silver pieces, furniture and decorative devotional objects made in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of the Americas from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries. Designed for use in churches, convents and monasteries and private homes, these objects were […]
