Artist Alyson Shotz</a> is known for large-scale sculptures that subvert their own physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity, light and matter.</p><p>In the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/4B5D047DE3D7D01E">Taubman Museum of Art</a>’s suspended atrium installation, Shotz’s Experiment in Gravity – a metal quilt composed of thousands of tiny aluminum, handwoven, punched metal parts – is made to explore the structure of space itself experienced through the force of gravity. The work’s shape is based on an animation of the same material dropped through space, responding to gravity, and stopped in time.</p><p>Experiment in Gravity is installed adjacent to Shotz’s work A Moment in Time, complementing one another with their ethereal and luminescent qualities.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

artist Alyson Shotz</a> in 2005 and loaned to the Taubman by Virginia collectors George and Harmon Logan, the work consists of numerous clear glass beads suspended on long threads of monofilament hanging from a painted steel grid support.</p><p>Resembling a steady yet gentle rain shower fixed in time, A Moment in Time transforms subtly in evolving light, thereby evoking distant stars in space or floating holographic planes. The piece might even be said to suggest a measured pause within music, with its beads the notes marked on a staff and its strings those of an unplucked harp.</p><p>A Moment in Time is installed adjacent to Shotz’s work Experiment in Gravity, complementing one another with their ethereal and luminescent qualities.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Thomas Eakins</a>.</p><p>The exhibition also features treasures acquired through the generous funds provided by the Horace G. Fralin Charitable Trust by such artists as <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/John-Singer-Sargent/42B6194D4B522925">John Singer Sargent</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Childe-Hassam/3D5DAF487A53FDEF">Childe Hassam</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Thomas-Hart-Benton-/2BB399F14C8734B3">Thomas Hart Benton</a>.</p><p>Highlights of the Museum’s decorative arts collection are also on view, including the Francis W. Collins Collection of early Mediterranean artifacts.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Charles Willson Peale</a> and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/William-Rush/DFF0CFDACCA93DC4">sculptor William Rush</a> founded PAFA in 1805 to champion American art and artists.</p><p>Making American Artists features works from PAFA’s esteemed collection that helped define new chapters in the history of American art. Amidst this expansive selection emerge the compelling stories of underrepresented artists who found unparalleled support and inspiration at PAFA, including <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Mary-Cassatt/E4FA27F77ED2BA5F">Mary Cassatt</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Barkley-Hendricks/2E59BF2A0A0B9402">Barkley L. Hendricks</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Edward-Hopper/87616BDCD5E1A53F">Edward Hopper</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Alice-Neel/B9A5DFA4A752CC86">Alice Neel</a>, Georgia O’Keeffe, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Laura-Wheeler-Waring/30BB13C0179FAB41">Laura Wheeler Waring</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Sonja-Sekula/45F76B7F5DAE4CE7">Sonia Sekula</a>.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Judith Leiber</a> created exquisitely designed couture women’s accessories that blur the boundaries between function and art. Most known for her semiprecious adorned minaudières or compact occasion cases, her creations also include day bags, belts, and pillboxes.</p><p>Recognized for both her originality in design and impeccable handcrafted quality, Leiber imported materials for her bags from Europe and then constructed them in the United States. Beautifully detailed both inside and out, each tiny minaudière took months to hand fabricate with special attention paid to construction including the interior details and hardware. A single bag can weigh between one to two pounds or sometimes more. Attached one by one with tweezers, the bag’s “skin” is bedazzled with thousands of semiprecious stones and crystals such as garnets, carnelian, rose quartz, amethyst, and more.</p><p>Art Nouveau, or “new art,” is an international style of art and architecture that exploded in Paris at the turn of the 20th-century. While Leiber may not have been creating bags with Art Nouveau in mind, her opulent designs complement works of the flamboyant art movement. Judith Leiber and Art Nouveau was curated by the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/4B5D047DE3D7D01E">Taubman Museum of Art</a>’s Community Engagement Department, taking inspiration from rhythmic lines, floral imagery, and elegant patterns that are characteristic of the Art Nouveau style.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Taubman Museum of Art</a> is pleased to present the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Artist/Alphonse-Mucha/C5C2A2AB139DC2C6">work of Alphonse Mucha</a>, the groundbreaking artist who originated Art Nouveau, in the new special ticketed exhibition Eternally New: The Art Nouveau World of Alphonse Mucha.</p><p>The exhibition features nearly 50 original posters, books, lithographs, sculptures, and other decorative items on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, with additional period pieces from other regional collections, including a penny-farthing bicycle, couture dresses, and jewelry.</p><p>Art Nouveau, or “new art,” is an international style of art and architecture that exploded in Paris at the turn of the 20th-century as Czech-born Mucha rose to prominence. His work came to define the look of the fin-de-siècle: soft pastels, sinuous floral patterns, and elegant yet bohemian women such as the internationally renowned French actress Sarah Bernhardt – in short, the essence of Belle Époque.</p><p>Mucha’s work transcends this period, however, with his impact felt throughout the decades in works ranging from the Grateful Dead’s concert posters and the “Flower Power” movement of the 1960’s to manga comics, street artists, and even tattoo art today.Several of these latter-day artists will be included through videos and large-scale images, highlighting how Mucha’s work influenced their own.</p><p>Bringing Mucha’s Art Nouveau world to life in a deeply engaging way is an accompanying Immersive Art Experience from the Grand Palais in Paris. The Taubman Museum of Art is the first museum outside of Europe to showcase the Immersive, kicking off an American tour.</p><p>Featuring sight, sound, smell, and touch, the Immersive walks visitors through the story of Mucha and his humanist ambition in three acts: as a master of advertising in Paris; at a turning point in his career in 1900, which he was heavily involved in the Exposition Universelle in Paris; and through the presentation of his monumental works, namely the Slav Epic, which develops a vision of Slav history as a pacifist model for the world that resonates today more than ever.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

American artist Pierre Daura</a>’s practice with a focus on his still lifes and his interest in abstraction.</p><p>Born in 1896 on the island of Menorca, Daura was a Catalan-American artist who painted in both Europe and America. Daura met his wife, Louise Heron Blair, in Paris in 1927. A Richmond, Virginia, native, she was studying art with Daura in Paris at the time; they married just a year later. In late 1929, Daura became involved in the founding of Cercle et Carré (“Circle and Square”), an artist’s group that had a large impact on his continued focus on abstraction. The Daura family relocated to Virginia in the 1940s, retreating from war-torn Europe. In Virginia, Daura taught art, first at Lynchburg College, where he chaired the art department, and then at Randolph-Macon Women’s College (later Randolph College). Daura died on January 1, 1976, and was buried alongside his wife in Rockbridge Baths, Virginia.</p><p>In 2003, the artist’s daughter, Martha Randolph Daura, generously gifted the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/"/Organization/Taubman-Museum-of-Art/4B5D047DE3D7D01E">Taubman Museum of Art</a> a large collection of works by her father including watercolor and oil paintings of portraits, French and Virginian landscapes, and still lifes.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Taubman Museum of Art</a> is pleased to be one of four locations to present the findings of the ICAT research in this immersive art installation.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />