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Current Exhibitions
Scheier Gallery | Through April 12, 2026
Embellish Me: Works from the Collection of Norma Canelas Roth and William Roth
During the 1970s, artists in Los Angeles and New York boldly challenged conventional creative norms by pushing the boundaries of form, color, and meaning in their art. This show celebrates this generation of trailblazing artists who championed color, pattern, and craft techniques traditionally associated with women artists.
Category:
Pattern and Decoration,1970s, Women in Art
Upper East Gallery
Seeing Empire
and the Masking of Violence
Centered around a long-term loan by Dutch Master Frans Post, this new installation displays representations of colonialism in conversation with contemporary explorations of identity, asking timely questions about power, erasure, and beauty.
Category:
Thought-Provoking, Dutch Masters
Southwest Gallery
Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s
In the 1960s, American artist Jules Olitski (1922-2007) exhibited his large-scale abstract Spray paintings and sculptures to critical acclaim. Olitski's sumptuously colored canvases, coupled with his bold and experimental painting methods, fueled the artist's public reception. His innovative technique involved the use of industrial spray guns to apply mists of acrylic paint to canvas, creating the effect of ethereal fields of suspended color. Sixty years since their inception and inspired by Olitski's masterpiece Shoot (1965) from the Currier Museum of Art’s collection, Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s features a selection of paintings, a sculpture, and works on paper, as well as rarely exhibited archival materials from the Jules Olitski Foundation.
Category: Abstraction, Color, New England
Credits: Jules Olitski, Shoot, 1965, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 94 × 98 inches. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, Museum Purchase: Gift of the Friends and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1977.40. Photography by Morgan Karanasios. © 2025 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Southwest Gallery
Painting in Color: Contemporary Abstraction
Presented in conversation with Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s, this exhibition invites you to experience four contemporary artists continuing the tradition of abstraction: Heather Hutchison, Joseph Marioni, Jane Swavely, and John Zurier.
Category: Abstraction, Color, New Contemporary
Credit: Heather Hutchison, Rising Tide, 2019, mixed media, reclaimed plexiglass, and birch plywood box, 29 7/8 × 29 7/8 × 3 ¾ inches. Collection of the Artist, Kingston, NY. Photography by Heather Hutchison.
Putnam Gallery
Ceramics and Glass from the Collection
Out of the case and into the light. Ceramics and Glass from the Collection illustrates the evolution of utilitarian craft into fine art. Explore fifty historic and contemporary works by leading artists from Great Britain and the United States, with a special focus on craftsmen working in New Hampshire.
Category:
Ceramics, Glass, Craft, Collection
Upcoming shows at the Currier
Upcoming Exhibitions
Opening May 7
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Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
American photographer Danny Lyon didn’t just document the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club: he joined them as a member while still an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. In his words, it was an “attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider.” The result was a new form of documentary photography that brought viewers into the worlds of its subjects with intimacy, grit, and humanity. Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders presents more than a dozen of these exceptional photographs, offering a time capsule of 1960s Americana.
Category:
Photography, 1960s
Credits: Danny Lyon, Cal, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, The Bikeriders Portfolio, 1966.
Opening May 7
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Together, Apart, Away:
Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection
Family road trips. Budding friendships. Sibling rivalries. These are just some of the human moments captured by everyday photographers in snapshots from the collection of Peter J. Cohen. Individually, each snapshot welcomes you into a recognizable world. As a whole, they tell a story about how we tell our stories. Get ready for a moving, nostalgic, and hopeful exhibition opening May 7 in conversation with Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders.
Category: Photography
Opening October 1, 2026
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Pepe Mar: Dream House
Thrift store aesthetics. An alter ego named Paprika. The hybridity of identity. It all comes together in Pepe Mar: Dream House. Opening October 1, 2026, the exhibition features more than 20 of Mar’s collages and assemblages in conversation with works from the Currier collection, inviting visitors into a fantastical world of color, texture, and great emotional resonance. The New England premier of Miami-based artist Pepe Mar, Dream House is more than an exhibition: it’s a phantasmagorical journey through influences and traditions.
Category:
Contemporary, Collage, Assemblage
Credits: Pepe Mar, Green Spiral, 2025, Collection of Stefanie Kahn, Raleigh, NC
Archive
Past Exhibitions
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