Archived - Shows And Events

June 25 - October 23, 2016 - This groundbreaking exhibition examines the rise and evolution of symbolic, abstract, and conceptual portraiture in modern and contemporary American Art.

May 19 - August 21, 2016 - This exhibition brings together works related to three of her books: Miss Rumphius, Hattie and the Wild Waves, and Eleanor. It also celebrates the recent gift of original preparatory sketches and manuscripts for Eleanor. Focused on the lives of three women rendered in detailed paintings, this exhibition explores how Cooney crafted rich biographies in text and image.

March 31 - September 4, 2016 - The exhibition presents a survey of the work of Luke DuBois, a New York based composer, computer programmer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Operating at the intersection of the visual, performative, and time-based arts, DuBois explores what it means to live in today’s data-saturated world of globalized information. The exhibition includes video, sound, and print...

This exhibition brings together a selection of oil paintings by Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) from the Museum’s collection, including his famous portraits of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The preeminent portraitist of the early republic, Stuart created fashionable likenesses of the period’s most important political, military, and social figures. Each of works included in the exhibition was comp...

This three-channel video installation from 2014 is based on the footage Auder recorded at night, when the electric light in adjacent homes allowed glances into stangers’ lives and reflections in windows further mangled borders between inside and out, private and public. Perspectives on the moon above the New York skyline and the pulsating, colorfully lit traffic complete this poetic and painterly ...

The exhibition provides visitors with an opportunity to consider transformations in American art across generations and traditional stylistic confines. Organized by Bowdoin curator Joachim Homann, Night Vision demonstrates the popularity of the theme with American artists of diverse aesthetic convictions and investigate how they responded to the unique challenges of picturing the night. The works ...

This exhibition illuminates the experience of the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. Art and artifacts drawn from the Museum’s collections shed light on the development of an extensive network among Europe, Africa, and the Americas that influenced identity and culture in the period. Closed on Mondays and national holidays.

The exhibition represents Morell’s first prolonged engagement in the state since his graduation from Bowdoin College and his first creative response to winter and the theme of climate change. A Mind of Winter includes photographs created at various sites in Maine during the winter of 2014–2015. Closed on Mondays and national holidays.