Upcoming Exhibitions

reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today

June 21 - September 15, 2013

Curated by William A. Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer

This exhibition was produced by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation, New York, with the support of Pro Helvetia and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

reGeneration2 showcases the ingenuity of photographers at the outset of their careers, as they navigate in the fast-moving currents of the 21st century. It showcases young practitioners focusing on major themes as diverse as the urban environment, globalization, identity and memory, as well as their hybrid techniques, which allow them to obscure as never before …

Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi: A leaf from my rose garden

June 21 – September 1, 2013

Organized by SECCA; Curated by Steven Matijcio

This exhibition is presented with the support of ART + Islam, a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the UNC School of the Arts

The fluid, dream-like navigation of trans-national iconographies (and their attendant ideologies) inform the work of young Iranian-American artist Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi. Meeting in the garden paradises of Islamic myth, she marries contrasting traditions of ornamental Persian painting with the defiant splatters and pours of Western abstraction. This exhibition gathers a select grouping of Ilchi’s paintings …

Graphic Design: Now in Production

October 24, 2013 - February 23, 2014

Co-organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York; Curated by Andrew Blauvelt, Curator of Architecture and Design, Walker Art Center and Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically over the past decade, expanding from a specialized profession to a widely deployed tool. The rise of user-generated content, new methods of publishing and systems of distribution, and the wide dissemination of creative software have opened up new opportunities for design. More designers are becoming producers—authors, publishers, instigators, …