GROUP EXHIBITION
Fantasy, Myth, Legend: Imagining the Past in Works on Paper Since 1750
December 16, 2023 - June 2, 2024
Providence, RI
Linda Connor’s 1987 image Dots and Hands, Fourteen Window Ruin, Bluff, Utah is included in Fantasy, Myth, Legend, a new exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.
This exhibition explores how artists from different backgrounds and moments in time have engaged with Western European historical narratives from prehistory through the medieval era. What accounts for the continued appeal of these fantasies, myths, and legends into our own time? And how can art help us to reimagine and remake these legacies in the future?
GROUP EXHIBITION
Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World
September 7, 2024 - January 5, 2025
San Diego, CA
Wonders of Creation explores intersections of art and science in Islamic culture from the 7th century to the present day. The exhibition begins with an introduction and impact of the richly illustrated book, The Wonders of Creation and Rarities of Existence written by scholar Zakariyya al-Qazwini. The text contains anecdotes about the wondrous qualities of the natural world and its inhabitants.
Using wonder as the vehicle, Wonders of Creation will illuminate the extraordinary global impact of science and artistic production from the Islamic world. Over 100 works, consisting of illustrated manuscripts, paintings, maps, scientific instruments, magic bowls, architectural elements, and contemporary art that features Monir Farmanfarmaian’s Muqarnas One, 2012, will evoke sentiments of wonder through a visual journey.