Sarasota Art Museum Announces 2023/2024 Season Exhibition Schedule

Visitors are invited to experience new installation works and first-time solo exhibitions

SARASOTA, Fla. (Sept. 14, 2023) – Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design is excited to announce its 2023/2024 season exhibitions.

The Museum’s 2023/2024 season promises to be its busiest yet, featuring a blend of artists presenting their first solo exhibitions along with artists renowned worldwide for their work. This includes several exclusive exhibitions created and installed at the Museum from the ground up by world-class artists.

Visitors explore Sarasota Art Museum’s galleries. Photo Credit: Daniel Perales

“Thanks to our generous sponsors, we’ve created a robust schedule of exhibitions on par with those featured at the world’s great arts destinations,” said Virginia Shearer, executive director of Sarasota Art Museum. “Our guests consistently express to us the joy they feel through their experiences at Sarasota Art Museum. Throughout our new season, visitors can look forward to more exhibitions and interactions with artists, more frequent and diverse programming, and more reasons to come back and experience something new in our halls and galleries.”

Museum visitors can enjoy the following exhibitions now and into 2024:

The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion

Now-Sept. 17, 2023

This touring exhibition presents works by Black artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries. Organized by Aperture and curated by Antwaun Sargent, a renowned writer, editor, and curator based in New York City, this exhibition will complete its international tour at Sarasota Art Museum.

The exhibition features select works from groundbreaking photographers: Campbell Addy, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Micaiah Carter, Awol Erizku, Quil Lemons, Namsa Leuba, Renell Medrano, Tyler Mitchell, Jamal Nxedlana, Daniel Obasi, Ruth Ossai, Adrienne Raquel, Dana Scruggs, and Stephen Tayo. A salon wall also features images created by other young Black photographers.

Stephanie J. Woods: my papa used to play checkers

Now-Sept. 17, 2023

Stephanie J. Woods is a multimedia artist based in New Mexico, primarily working in the fields of photography, fiber, video, and sculpture. Her work explores Black Southern American culture and identity and the impact of involuntary cultural assimilation.

For her first museum solo exhibition, Woods presents a body of her recent work created after her life-changing artist residency at Black Rock Senegal in Dakar, Senegal in 2021. During her sojourn, she witnessed firsthand how much African culture and tradition has survived and continues to thrive in Black American communities.

Chakaia Booker: Surface Pressure

Now-Oct. 29, 2023

Chakaia Booker: Surface Pressure celebrates the diverse work of multimedia artist Chakaia Booker. Booker is renowned for her expert manipulation of unconventional materials, transforming perceived visual tensions into compellingly unified compositions. The title “Surface Pressure” alludes to her process of making—the literal force she exerts through the manipulation of raw materials including rubber, wood, steel, and paper. A hallmark of Booker’s artistic practice is her inventive use of recycled tires in the composition of her sculptures.

Surface Pressure features over a dozen works, including prints, paintings, and monumental sculptures, from across the artist’s extensive career. Booker has received numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and participation in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s prestigious biennial. Her works are housed in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the United States, in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Reassembling Spilt Light: An Immersive Installation by Carlos Bunga

Now-Oct. 29, 2023

Carlos Bunga is a multimedia artist, internationally renowned for his site-responsive installations built from mundane materials such as cardboard and adhesive tape. For this solo exhibition, Bunga created a temporary cardboard structure in the 30-foot-high Koski Gallery located on the Museum’s third floor. Beginning and ending as a dialogue with the existing architecture, this installation transforms the gallery’s spatial configuration for the duration of the exhibition. 

Accompanying Bunga’s site-responsive structure are selected photographs, videos, and paintings that further showcase the notion of light as a physical and phenomenological component, as well as a metaphor for reflection and hope in his own body of work. The exhibition also includes a set of drawings created after completing his onsite work. Bunga’s transformative installation and poetically resonant images invite visitors to consider how we shape and are shaped by our surroundings, to contemplate their ephemerality, and to attend to light in a time of darkness.

Contemporary/Traditional: Selections from the Basch Glass Collection

Oct. 22, 2023-Feb. 11, 2024

Drawn from the Richard and Barbara Basch Collection, Contemporary/Traditional gives a glimpse into the dynamic world of international contemporary glass art of the late 20th and 21st centuries. This exhibition showcases a stunning range of glasswork styles, from delicate figural sculptures to powerful abstract shapes.

Artists featured in this exhibition include artist-duo Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg, Lucio Bubacco, Dale Chihuly, Václav Cigler, Jun Kaneko, Carmen Lozar, married duo Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Dante Marioni, Debora Moore, Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Laura de Santillana, Livio Seguso, Preston Singletary, and Lino Tagliapietra.

Juana Valdés: Embodied Memories, Ancestral Histories

Oct. 22, 2023-Feb. 11, 2024

Embodied Memories, Ancestral Histories, Valdés’ first solo exhibition at a museum, will showcase a range of works drawn from her three-decade-long career. Valdés’ work, anchored in history and narratives related to her Afro-Cuban heritage, addresses colonization’s history and migration’s impact, as well as the issues of gender, race, and the representation of the female body. 

Working in a range of both traditional and non-traditional media—from ceramics, with all its associations of feminine and manual work, to new-media—Valdés communicates ideas of the personal and subjective while at the same time challenging the canon of art.

Judy Pfaff: Picking up the Pieces

Nov. 19, 2023-March 24, 2024

Judy Pfaff, widely regarded as a pioneer of installation art, has created work that spans disciplines from painting to printmaking and sculpture to installation, eschewing definition. Pfaff ingeniously transmutes and transforms materials, including natural objects from her garden, hand-painted and digitally manipulated images, welded steel, aluminum, wood, expanded foam, melted plastic, blown glass, neon, and LED lights.

Pfaff’s largest installation since 2017, Picking up the Pieces will defy boundaries, mixing painting, sculpture, and architecture. Her site-responsive installation at Sarasota Art Museum is her response to the Florida environment, and the devastation of Hurricane Ian in September 2022, the destructive aftermath of which Pfaff glimpsed in January 2023. The scenes she witnessed then and her fond memories of her past visits are channeled through her artistic vision, which embraces the dualities of life and nature.

Molly Hatch Commission

TBD Spring 2024

Acclaimed ceramic artist Molly Hatch will create a brand-new commissioned site-responsive installation inspired by Sarasota’s rich cultural landscape. Hatch’s signature plate paintings—large-scale installations of hand-glazed ceramic plates—reimagine historical decorative arts through a contemporary lens, while bridging the gap between decorative and fine art.

Impact! Contemporary Artists at the Hermitage Artist Retreat

March 10-July 7, 2024

Impact! presents recent works by 10 renowned contemporary U.S.-based artists, all alumni of the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Sarasota: Diana Al-Hadid, Sanford Biggers, Chitra Ganesh, Todd Gray, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Michelle Lopez, Ted Riederer, John Sims, Kukuli Velarde, and William Villalongo. Dan Cameron, the exhibition’s guest curator, is a former Hermitage Curatorial Council member. The exhibition will feature works across a range of media, including sculpture, painting, installation, video, photography, printmaking, ceramics, and performance.

The Truth of the Night Sky: Anne Patterson and Patrick Harlin

April 21-Sept. 29, 2024

Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellows Anne Patterson and Patrick Harlin will collaborate to create a multimedia site-specific installation. Composer Harlin’s original orchestral work, Earthrise, will serve as an integral part of the immersive installation work by multidisciplinary artist Patterson.

Patterson’s large-scale installations combine sculpture, architecture, lighting, video, music, and scent. As a synesthete (when she hears sound, she sees color and shape), Patterson seeks to transport audiences to a multi-sensory realm. This immersive installation will engage the senses: visitors will plunge into color-filled light or enveloping darkness, and move in rhythm with exalting music or in ambient sound. With each step, visitors will travel imaginatively through space and time.

More information on these exhibitions will be available throughout the season. Please visit sarsotaartmuseum.org for the latest details on the 2023/2024 season exhibitions.

About Sarasota Art Museum

Sarasota Art Museum is a catalyst for appreciation and understanding of the art of our time. As a platform for exposure, education, and experimentation, the Museum inspires new ideas and new ways of being through an endless rotation of transformative, relevant, and pioneering exhibitions and programs designed to elevate and empower all by cultivating discerning visual thinkers and ethical citizens.

Sarasota Art Museum is Ringling College of Art and Design’s dynamic laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art. Sarasota Art Museum shares the Ringling College Museum Campus with Ringling College’s Continuing Studies program comprised of the non-credit Studio and Digital Arts program and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Ringling College.
Located in the historic Sarasota High School, Sarasota Art Museum opened to the public in 2019 in the beautifully reimagined building by K/R Architects. The new Museum is comprised of 15,000 square feet of dedicated exhibition space, a plaza court, the Great Lawn featuring temporary sculpture and site – specific installations, Bistro, and SHOP.
As Sarasota’s only museum solely focused on contemporary artists and their work, Sarasota Art Museum offers visitors a place to see thought-provoking exhibitions and participate in education programs that start conversations and amplify the city’s creative spirit.
SHOP, located in the Museum’s lobby, features an eclectic collection of exhibition-related merchandise, art and architecture books, contemporary jewelry, and gifts.

Bistro at Sarasota Art Museum is located on the Museum’s campus in Paul Rudolph’s Sarasota School of Architecture 1959 Vocational Shops building. The Bistro fare is inspired by Florida’s regional fruit stands and farmer’s markets and emphasizes local produce, healthy proteins, and artisanal specialty items brought to you by Executive Chef and general manager Kaytlin Dangaran.

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General Admission                                             

$15

 

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Free

 

Youth (17 and under)                                         

Free  

 

Active Military & Veterans (with ID)                 

Free

 

Ringling College Alumni                                 

Free

 

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& Students (includes one guest)

Free

 

Cross College Alliance Students (with ID)     

Free 

 

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