
Past Exhibitions


Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of women’s suffrage in New York State, Seen and Heard explores the use of the arts as a catalyst for social change and features the work of nine contemporary artists as well as several works from the Everson’s collection.

Robert De Niro Sr., Portrait of Virginia (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife), 1952-53, Oil on canvas, 33 ½ x 34 ½ inches, Gift of Goldian and Andre Vanden Broeck


Jackson Pollock Red Composition (Painting 1946), ca. 1946 Oil on Masonite, 19 ¼ x 23 ¾ inches Gift of Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman. Jackson Pollock, © 2016 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Installation view of Vanessa German in MATRIX 174 / i come to do a violence to the lie, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, 2016. Photo: Allen Phillips / Wadsworth Atheneum
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December 23, 2016 – May 7, 2017
Vanessa German uses paint, mixed media, sculpture, and performance to directly confront racism and violence in today’s society. Based in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, a neighborhood devastated by drugs and crime on a daily basis, German creates work in response to her life experiences.


