Photography From the Permanent Collection
Photography has quickly become one of the strongest collecting areas for Polk Museum of Art.
Photography has quickly become one of the strongest collecting areas for Polk Museum of Art.
Jerry Uelsmann is arguably the most important photographer working today.
Though screen printing was invented in China about 1,000 years ago and introduced in Europe more than 200 years ago, only in the last hundred years has it become a popular medium throughout the commercial and art worlds.
Oscar Wilde once wrote that “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
It was a decade that began with the end of the Beatles and the introductions of All My Children and The Gremlin, survived the death of Elvis and the popularity of leisure suits and Charlie’s Angels, and continued through disco, the Walkman, and Space Invaders.
Akiko Sugiyama and Jean Yao are two of the most widely revered fiber artists in the state.
The exhibition consists of seven 2-d works and eight hemispheres which Prusa refers to as “domes.”
The idea of a shelter can be anything from a physical enclosure to emotional security.
In the last ten years, perhaps no other exhibition has excited our community more than Innuendo Non Troppo: The Work of Gregory Barsamian.
Outside of the world of academic art training, ordinary people pick up brush or clay and create artistic objects.
As the world around us seems to continue to speed up, one of the advantages of art is that it gives us an opportunity to consider things on our time rather than as they rush by us.
Miroslav Antic has become well-known and respected for his stunning paintings that feature formal indoor or outdoor settings, depicted in astonishing detail.
Radcliffe Bailey (b. 1968) has quickly become recognized as one of the most important artists working in the Southeast.