Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
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Matisse and the Decorative Impulse
April 14, 2012 – July 8, 2012Attracted to bold patterning throughout his career, Henri Matisse explored in both prints and paintings the decorative possibilities of simplified forms and areas of flat surface design mixed with volumetric representation. More
2012 UNCG Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
April 28, 2012 – June 3, 2012The 2012 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition features work by five artists in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Department of Art graduate program. More
Recent Acquisitions
May 26, 2012 – August 19, 2012The Weatherspoon Art Museum first began collecting works of art in the 1940s. Since then, it has continued to enhance the quality and distinction of its collections through the acquisition of important works of art by gift, bequest, and even in times of economic challenges, by purchase. More
Close Relations and A Few Black Sheep: Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
June 2, 2012 – September 23, 2012Focusing on the Weatherspoon’s ever growing collection of three-dimensional works, this exhibition is presented in several sections, each of which brings together artists whose work shares an affinity, if not a fairly direct kinship. More
Zone of Contention: The U.S./Mexico Border
June 16, 2012 – September 2, 2012This exhibition focuses on artists’ investigations of issues related to the U.S./Mexico border, a geographic area of much debate and contention. Through photography, sculpture, works on paper, video, and new media, subjects such as migrant labor, immigration law, national sovereignty, the Dream Act... More
Formative Matters: Simple Childhood Pleasures
July 21, 2012 – October 21, 2012This exhibition revisits some of the activities that bring the most pleasure to children. More
Catherine Murphy: Falk Visiting Artist
September 15, 2012 – December 9, 2012Catherine Murphy’s work requires close looking and contemplation. Painting from life, Murphy uses color, form and light to create paintings that challenge our skills of perception at the same time that they suggest intriguing narratives. More
Juan Logan: Without Stopping
September 22, 2012 – December 16, 2012North Carolina artist Juan Logan presents new and recent work in his first solo show at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. More
Art on Paper 2012: The 42nd Exhibition
October 21, 2012 – January 13, 2013Art on Paper 2012 features regional, national and international artists who have produced significant works made on or of paper. More
Highlights from the Cone Collection
November 3, 2012 – February 17, 2013The Weatherspoon Art Museum first began collecting works of art in the 1940s, and received an astonishing bounty in 1950 when Etta Cone bequeathed part of her and her sister Claribel’s collection to the museum. More
Yoshua Okón: Falk Visiting Artist
January 18, 2013 – April 14, 2013Yoshua Okón creates staged and improvised situations that challenge notions of reality and truth. The artist has become well known internationally for his practice of placing individuals engaged with real-life social and political issues into fabricated narratives. More
Diana Al-Hadid
February 9, 2013 – May 5, 2013Diana Al-Hadid’s haunting, architecturally inspired sculpture and drawing will be presented in a major solo exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Syrian-born, but raised in the U.S., Al-Hadid is known for integrating references to Western European and Islamic mythology to create gravity-defying... More
The Kids Are All Right: an exhibition about family and photography
June 1, 2013 – August 18, 2013"The Kids Are All Right" brings the bedrock theme of family into the twenty-first century—an age when love defines the family unit more than tradition, convention, the law, or even blood. More
