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Sunday, September 26
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Please join us on the last Sunday of each month for our Museum Free Day. Bring your friends and family to explore new art and thought-provoking exhibitions. At Sarasota Art Museum, we are committed to providing access to quality programs and exhibitions for our entire community.
Art and Race Matters:
The Career of Robert Colescott
Tuesday, September 28 at 6pm
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Unraveling:
Aranda\Lasch + Terrol Dew Johnson
12 June – 26 September
2016
Aluminum, creosote, yucca, cedar bark
50 x 42 x 20 in.
Courtesy of the artists
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
29 May – 31 October
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is the first comprehensive retrospective of one of the United States’ most compelling and provocative artists who—through vibrant paintings laced with biting satire—confronted issues of race, gender, identity, and the uncomfortable realities of American life in the latter half of the 20th century.
1980
Acrylic on canvas, 71 3/4 x 83 7/8 inches
© 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy of The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo
Photo Credit: Joshua White
Charles McGill: In the Rough
29 May – 21 November
Charles McGill: In the Rough explores the assemblage works of artist, educator, and golf teaching professional Charles McGill, who physically deconstructed and repurposed the plastic, steel, leather, vinyl, and hardware from vintage golf bags to examine the racial and class inequities associated with the sport and leisure activity.
Reconfigured golf bag parts on panel, 72 x 72 x 6 in.
Courtesy of the Estate of Charles McGill
Photo: Jenny Gorman
Samo Davis: Happiness in ROYGBIV
29 May – 31 October
Happiness in ROYGBIV is a vibrant sculptural installation that features a colorful and effervescent tree composed of found objects from the artist’s home, intending to spark joy within the difficult times of the last year.
Plastic, pom poms, resin, yarn, clay, recycled materials.
Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Xaviera Simmons
May 2021- November 2022
Steel, wood, concrete, and acrylic
in three parts: a. 17 × 4 × 12 ft.; b. 14.8 ft. × 10 in. × 7.5 ft.; c. 12.5 × 9 × 26 ft.
Courtesy of the Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, and David Castillo, Miami
Photo: Sara Morgan
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Judith Linhares: The Artist as Curator
27 November – 3 April 2022
Judith Linhares: The Artist as Curator illuminates the fantastical world of Judith Linhares (b. 1940, California) and the abundance of influences that shape her artistic practice—from her time in the California Bay Area in the 1960s and 70s, to her studio space, to her dream journals, to other artists, five of whom Linhares has selected to include in the exhibition.
Oil on linen
60 x 81 in.
Image courtesy of the artist and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles/Seoul
Danner Washburn
Effigy: Hemric
11 December – 8 May 2022
Porcelain figurine, NC 95 tobacco seed, collards seed, summer squash seed, sweet corn seed, neutral pH adhesive
3 x 1 ¼ x 2 in.
Courtesy of the artist
Coke Wisdom O'Neal
Spring 2022
Daniel Lind-Ramos
Spring/Summer 2022
More information coming soon.
Before
Janaina Tschäpe
Between the Sky and the Water
14 December 2020 – 2 May 2021
Casein and watercolor pencil on canvas, 118 x 234 in.
Podesta Collection, Washington D.C.
Photo: Teresa Lojacono
Photo: Steven Brooke Studios
Harmony Hammond
Material Witness, Five Decades of Art
October 2020 – 15 November 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Photo: Jeffrey Sturges
© Harmony Hammond / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Summer / Fall Season 2021
P-12 School Visits
The Memory Project
The Sarasota Art Museum has taken on stewardship of the history of the former Sarasota High School building. Learn about the history of the site and help keep the memory of the site—prior to recent transformation—alive.
About the Museum
M. Leo Elliott – Former Sarasota High School
Photo: Dick Dickinson
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Photo: Ryan Gamma
Anchoring the Ringling College Museum Campus, the Museum has 15,000 square feet of dedicated exhibition gallery space, Bistro, Shop, auditorium for educational events, performance and film, a sculpture courtyard and extensive grounds and facilities where one can engage with site-specific and site-responsive art experiences.