Scheier Gallery | Through March 15, 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

Concourse Gallery | Through April 5, 2026

Flourishing: Paintings by Wendy Edwards

The Currier presents eight large-scale paintings by New England artist Wendy Edwards (b. 1950) in the museum’s new Concourse Gallery. Let yourself be taken in by the grandeur of these sweeping canvasses, depicting abstract flora and human forms rendered with rich and surprising colors. With a commitment to expressivity and the luscious material qualities of oil paint, these works assert Edwards’ place within a lineage shaped by Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Category:
Expressive, New England, Color

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, point of view, 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