Chris Schanck, Curbed Vanity, mixed media, aluminum foil, and resin. Photo by Clare Gatto. On view at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Curbed Vanity: A Contemporary Foil by Chris Schanck
2/7/21 to 8/29/21 | Free
For his first solo museum exhibition, designer Chris Schanck has created a new work inspired by the 19th-century Gorham Manufacturing Company’s Martelé dressing set, an icon of the DMA’s collection and a monument in the history of American metalwork. Curbed Vanity pairs works in a conversation across time about craftsmanship and material. Now based in Detroit, Schanck was raised in Dallas and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Devoted: Art and Spirituality in Mexico and New Mexico
2/28/21 to 1/2/22 | Free
Featuring over 35 paintings and sculptures from the DMA’s Latin American art collection, Devoted focuses on two distinct but related practices: bultos, wooden sculptures of saints and other holy figures, and ex-votos, paintings that commemorate personal miracles. The exhibition explores the important role these devotional objects—admired as much for their artistic value as for their spiritual significance—have played in communities across centuries.
2/28/21 to 6/20/21 | Free
Through five works, this focused installation explores key aspects of acclaimed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s practice, including her unique visual language, exploration of still life painting, and reflection on the events of her adventurous life.
Juan Gris, The Painter’s Window, 1925, Baltimore Museum of Art, Bequest of Saidie A. May. Photography by Mitro Hood. On view in the DMA’s exhibition “Cubism in Color”.
Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris
3/14/21 to 7/25/21 | Ticket required
Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art, this is the first U.S. exhibition in over 35 years dedicated to the Spanish artist Juan Gris. Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris highlights the artist’s pioneering and revolutionary contributions to the Cubist movement by focusing on his fascination with subjects drawn from everyday life.
Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole
5/2/21 to 8/8/21 | Free
Julian Charrière creates work that bridges the realms of environmental science and cultural history. This focused exhibition provides immersive encounters with the artist’s melancholic and beautiful portraits of nature in the human era, culminating with his most recent video project, Towards No Earthly Pole.
Keir Collection of Islamic Art
Free
From mid-February through June, selections from the collection, particularly early Islamic talismanic drawings and Coptic textiles from Egypt, will be on display in dialogue with a recent work by the well-known Cairo-based contemporary artist Huda Lutfi on loan from the collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman. Responding to the unique challenges of our times, the work from 2019-2020 entitled Healing Devices Helpful in Time of Constraints and Anxiety represents a series of 12 small collages inspired by the 100 designs for automata by the 12th-century Arab engineer, Isma‘il al-Jazari. One of al-Jazari’s designs in the Keir Collection is displayed. Other works on view in this rotation include uniquely sophisticated textiles from 16th-century Iran with iconography ranging from dancing ladies in a garden to a representation of the angels and birds of paradise.