Past Exhibitions

On View through May 2, 2021

Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art Awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious educational initiative supporting student achievement in the arts. Every year, students across the country in grades 7-12 are invited to enter original works of art in regional competitions, which are then judged by professional artists, educators, and photographers. The judges award first place (Gold Key), second place (Silver Key), honorable mentions, and special award honorees. Gold Key winners move on to compete at the national level, and a selection of Silver Key winners are typically displayed at the Everson. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exhibition moved online.

MEDITATION: INTUITIVE MIND, CREATIVE ACT

Brought to you in collaboration with The Zen Center of Syracuse, Rev. Sherry Chayat, a Zen Master and writer on the arts, will lead us in a period of silent meditation, following the breath as it flows from moment to moment, letting us enter into a relaxed state of awareness and discovery.

On view through May 2, 2021

The ancient Andean civilizations of South America were strikingly diverse in their religious beliefs and material cultures, but each developed complex ceramics for both domestic and ritual use. This exhibition features key pieces from the Museum’s collection, including several recent acquisitions from the Nazca, Paracas, Moche, Chimú, and Chavin cultures.

On view through April 18, 2021
Empty openings or panes of glass in houses, vehicles, skyscrapers, or storefronts, windows are portals to and from other worlds. Drawn from the Everson’s collection, this exhibition examines the formal and symbolic potential of a simple aperture.

Appositions features work by recent graduates of Syracuse University’s Studio Arts MFA program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, including Franco Andres, Brandy Boden, Darcie Brown, Stephen Farrell, Devon Gelhar, Charles Hickey, Eric Mowen, and Katie Shulman.

Using portraiture as her point of departure, Lacey McKinney examines themes of identity and embodiment through the human face and figure. Painting with acrylic and oil, she merges multiple faces into one composition—blurring together moments in time. Calling attention to our shifting identities and challenging the history of genre portraiture, McKinney questions how much information can be gleaned from a single portrait.

For British artist Gareth Mason, porcelain is an all-consuming obsession. His lusty manipulation of clay is brought full-circle through the metamorphic power of fire. His surfaces seethe, buckle, and ooze with a tectonic force that reflects his own passion for process. This exhibition is a partnership with the Syracuse University School of Art, with additional support from Laguna Clay Company.

Since acquiring its first works by Adelaide Alsop Robineau in 1916, the Everson Museum of Art has built one of the finest collections of art pottery in the world. Renegades and Reformers revolves around two common personality types among potters: the “renegades” who embarked on highly personal artistic quests that pushed clay and glaze to their limits, and the “reformers,” whose modern designs and social attitudes pushed back against Victorian mores.

In this recent series of paintings, Cazenovia-based artist Jim Ridlon creates impressionistic portraits of gardens that are poetic meditations on the passage of time and the impermanence of nature.