PAST EXHIBITIONS
The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History has a strong reputation for providing some of the region’s most compelling exhibits. Here is a list of some of the past exhibits that have been on display.
View PDF (90 KB, 4 pages) of past exhibitions, 2000 - 2011.
GOYA'S LOS CAPRICHOS AND SOCIAL SATIRE
This exhibition features an early first edition of Los Caprichos, a set of eighty etchings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes published in 1799. Included in the exhibition for comparison are other works by Goya.
SOCIAL SATIRE AND COMMENTARY FROM THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
Drawn from the Museum's extensive holdings of works on paper, this exhibition will examine artists who comment on society by drawing attention to injustice or poking fun at the human condition. Most of these objects have not previously been exhibited at the Museum and include powerful works by Barton Benes, T.C. Cannon, Mexican master Jose Luis Cuevas, Harry Fonseca, Luis Jimenez, John Sloan, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
MINIATURES & MORE 2011
Now in its 21st year, Miniatures & More is an exhibition fundraiser that provides valuable funding to The Museum while benefitting the artists whose work it features. The only selling exhibition at The Albuquerque Museum, Miniatures was created by – and is a program of – the Albuquerque Museum Foundation.
HISPANIC TRADITIONAL ARTS OF NEW MEXICO
Since its founding in 1967, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History has quietly built an impressive and diverse collection of Hispanic Traditional Art from across the state. This exhibition, celebrating masterworks and little known gems from the permanent collection of The Museum, will provide a broad reaching exploration of the historical development and contemporary new directions in Hispanic traditional art.
FACES FROM OUR PAST, FACING THE FUTURE: ALBUQUERQUE AND THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
This exhibition features prints made from a collection of glass plate negatives by the Cobb family of photographers that was recently acquired by The Museum. The collection, found in its original custom crates and individual glass plate boxes dating from the late 1800s, was originally discovered in the 1960s in an Albuquerque Bekins storage unit.
ALBUQUERQUE CELEBRATES 2012
Part of The Museum's "Celebrating the New Mexico Centennial" programming, this exhibition relates some of the major events taking place in Albuquerque around the time New Mexico became a state, including the 1908 National Irrigation Conference, the first aeroplane flights at the Territorial Fairgrounds, presidential visits to Albuquerque, and the ratification of the New Mexico State Constitution at the Alvarado Hotel. The exhibition will also feature examples of New Mexico's official emblems including the state cookie (biscochito), state neckwear (bolo tie) and state symbol (Zia sun symbol).
RECENT ART ACQUISITIONS
As an investment for future generations, The Museum actively acquires works of art from the American Southwest and works that have influenced artists in this region. This installation will highlight objects that have been acquired by The Museum in the last few years.
GRONK – “LIVE” INSTALLATION
The Museum was pleased to host the internationally renowned artist Gronk as he painted a site specific and temporary wall painting inside The Museum. For two weeks in July, Gronk created a monumental mural in front of Museum visitors who were able to interact and engage with him as he painted. His mural willl be available to view until February 2012.
A NEW LIGHT ON TIFFANY: CLARA DRISCOLL AND THE TIFFANY GIRLS
Louis Comfort Tiffany was one of the most recognized designers of his time in decorative arts, especially in stained glass. However, some lamps, windows and other decorative objects which were originally thought to be designed by Tiffany himself are now recognized as designed and executed by a special group of women who worked for Tiffany at the turn of the 20th century.
SENSORY CROSSOVERS: SYNETHESIA IN AMERICAN ART
The artists include such luminaries as Charles Burchfield, Arthur Dove, Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe and Adolph Gottlieb, showcased alongside the extraordinary talents of lesser-known painters such as Agnes Pelton, Raymond Jonson, Louis Ribak, Teresa Bernstein and Clyde Connell. The substantial catalogue by Sharyn Udall brings alive Synesthesia's intellectual underpinnings, documenting the varied formal and expressive purposes these crossovers have served for American painters.
A PASSIONATE LIGHT: POLAROIDS BY H .JOE WALDRUM
A premiere exhibition that examines the artist’s way of looking and thinking in an exhibition comprised of hundreds of Waldrum’s one-of-a-kind Polaroid images capturing his surroundings. The exhibition will be augmented by prints and paintings by Waldrum from The Museum’s collection, created with the assistance of his Polaroid views of the world.
ALBUQUERQUE'S NEW TOWN
A story of Albuquerque following the Civil War to the heyday of Route 66.
SHIPS ON THE LINE: ALBUQUERQUE AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF AVIATION
An exhibition of 26 prints from the Frank Speakman Collection of early aviation photography.
