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Loïs Jones at La Biennale 2022
Requiem for Mother Emanuel
AC Hotel Spartanburg
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TJC's hometown exhibition space is open Wednesday – Saturday from 12-4 PM.
TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC
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Madonna and Lamb
by Elliot Daingerfield (1892)
Good Season's Tidings!
This exhibition of "Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection" travels to the Columbia Museum of Art from January 21 — May 21, 2023.
Our Own Work Our Own Way
on Loan
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View a selection of forty TJC-curated modern masterpieces at the AC Hotel Spartanburg.
The Art of Black Mountain College
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The Johnson Collection's holdings can be viewed at partner institutions worldwide.
Current Works on Loan
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Seventeen objects are on loan from TJC to the IAAM for its inaugural opening exhibition.
International African American Museum, Charleston, SC
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TJC has loaned nine silkscreen prints from "often overshadowed German textile artist" Anni Albers to the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center.
Inspired Encounters
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What is the
Johnson Collection?
Hailed by
The Magazine Antiques
with having staged a “quiet art historical revolution” and expanding “the meaning of regional” through its “exhibitions, loans, publications, and institutional partnerships,” the Johnson Collection seeks to illuminate the rich history and diverse cultures of the American South.
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Art of the American South
Located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Johnson Collection offers an extensive survey of artistic activity in the American South from the late eighteenth century to the present day.
A Private Collection for Public Good
By sharing the art it stewards through exhibitions and publications, the Johnson Collection seeks to advance appreciation of Southern art, in the region and beyond.
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NOW
October 19, 2022 – January 7, 2023
Face to Face: 200 Years of Portraiture from the Johnson Collection
at TJC Gallery
Portraits have functioned throughout history to memorialize powerful and significant figures. As the genre modernized, artists have chosen to portray not just elites, but also their friends, lovers, or even strangers. All portraits involve a negotiation between the reality of the sitter, the choices of the artist, and the interpretations of a viewer.
Face to Face
presents the visages of twenty-eight individuals, ranging from oils-on-canvas to woodblock prints, and spanning nearly 200 years of artistic innovation in the American South.
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SOON
January 19 – April 8, 2023
Surrounded by Forms: Abstract Scenes from The Johnson Collection
at TJC Gallery
Traditional landscape art presents viewers with mostly recognizable images, from sweeping mountain vistas to lush meadows, tangled marshes, and urban panoramas. By contrast, the modernist painters featured in this exhibition bring to their scenes the techniques and perspectives of abstraction which challenge viewers to reconsider what counts as a landscape and to reflect on the forms that surround us.
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CLOSING SOON
September 1 – December 15, 2022
McCallum & Halsey: At Home and Abroad
at Wofford College
Throughout their sixty-year marriage, noted South Carolina artists Corrie McCallum and William Halsey explored shared and separate idioms in their art. The two were united by their dedication to enriching their local arts community, as well by as their joint passion for travel to faraway parts of the globe as a source of creative inspiration.
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NOW
October 8, 2022 – March 25, 2023
Abstract Perspectives in Mid-Century Art
at The University of Arizona
In celebrating the momentous return of Willem de Kooning’s
Woman-Ochre
,
Abstract Perspectives in Mid-Century Art
takes a broad perspective at the cultural milieu that surrounded de Kooning’s artistic development, particularly during the years 1950-1970. This exhibition features two TJC works by Elaine de Kooning and Ida Kohlmeyer installed alongside other mid-century luminaries like Lee Krasner, Yuki Katsura, Morris Louis, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and George McNeil.
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SOON
January 21 — May 21, 2023
Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
This exhibition brings together 41 female artists of the 20th century who had connections to the South while shining a spotlight on several other regional artists. Having faced resistance from the art world for decades, many of these artists are just beginning to come out of the shadows of art history. Women artists in the South particularly encountered resistance in their quest to gain parity, especially when their mode of expression was modern in style or subject. Comprised of artwork from the 1930s to the 1990s, Our Own Work, Our Own Way champions a roster of artists whose aesthetic achievements transcended convention and invigorated the South’s modern milieu.
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ON LOAN
October 1, 2022 — March 19, 2023
Inspired Encounters
at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center
Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art
, the inaugural exhibition at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico, explores ideas of intergenerational influence and innovation among visual artists working in a range of practices. Comprised of 43 artworks, the exhibition pairs pieces by a dozen groundbreaking women artists of the postwar period with new commissions of contemporary art presented publicly for the first time.
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NOW
October 8, 2022 – March 19, 2023
Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art
at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art is the first exhibition to explore the instrument’s symbolism in American art from the early 19th century to the present day. Featuring 125 works of art, as well as 35 musical instruments, the exhibition demonstrates that guitars figure prominently in the visual stories Americans tell themselves about themselves—their histories, identities, and aspirations.
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CLOSING SOON
September 27 – December 4, 2022
Mattie Lou O’Kelley: The Long Journey to Success
at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
The Long Journey to Success
is an homage to the life and work of American self-taught artist Mattie Lou O’Kelley (1908-1997). he first began working in colored chalks on paper which she sold in flea markets, fairs and even the front steps of the High Museum. O’Kelley would go on to become a highly accomplished folk artist and enjoyed great financial freedom in the last years of her life.
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On Loan
April 22 – January 15, 2023
Painting the Smokies: Art, Community, and the Making of a National Park
at Tennessee State Museum
The grassroots campaign to create a national park in the Smokies occurred during a period of great change in the region, fueled by renewed interest in the Appalachian Mountains. The exhibition explores how the Smokies inspired a generation of painters, and how art brought attention, activism, and tourism to the region.
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