EXHIBITIONS
Brian Ulrich: "Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001–2011"
East Building, Gallery 2 through January 5, 2014
Photographer Brian Ulrich’s decade-long investigation of American consumer culture, traces a route from the exuberant excess of big-box stores to the bleak suburban landscapes of closed malls and empty shopping centers.
Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed
East Building, Meymandi Exhibition Gallery through January 20, 2014
Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed marks the North Carolina Museum of Art’s first design exhibition, exploring the history and development of the Porsche lineage from the 1930s to the present day. Featuring 22 automobiles, Porsche by Design presents cars owned by Ralph Lauren, Steve McQueen, and Janis Joplin, as well as the one-of-a-kind Panamericana concept car on loan from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
Reveal: Portraits by Carrie Levy
East Building, Level A
through January 26, 2014
Carrie Levy’s portraits reveal everything and nothing at the same time. This solo exhibition features photographs selected from several series Levy created over the past decade and a half. Vulnerable, disquieting, and unsettling, her portraits explore the politics of representation: the gaze of the photographer and the subject of the gaze.
Outsiders: Facing the Camera
Julian T. Baker Jr. Gallery
through January 26, 2014
This exhibition brings together works from the North Carolina Museum of Art’s permanent collection that examine the forms of “otherness.” Perhaps through an expression, a posture, or a feeling, these photographs document subjects who are, in some way, detached.
Close to Home: A Decade of Acquisitions
North Carolina Gallery through February 9, 2014
As the preeminent art institution of North Carolina, the NCMA is firmly committed to presenting and promoting the work of artists from our state. Close to Home: A Decade of Acquisitions includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed-media works acquired by the Museum in the last 10 years. The exhibition features work by well-known favorites such as Bob Trotman, Beverly McIver, and George Bireline alongside brand-new works on view for the first time by artists such as Linda Foard Roberts, John Rosenthal, Peter Glenn Oakley, and Anne Lemanski.
Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum
On view in various galleries through February 7, 2014
In the West Building the Museum presents a series of loans selected by NCMA Curator of European Art David Steel from the Chrysler Museum in Virginia. Interspersed throughout the galleries, 18th- and 19th-century paintings and sculptures by such masters as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Francesco Bertos, Mary Cassatt, and Auguste Rodin are strategically installed next to related works in the NCMA’s permanent collection, inspiring dialogue among the works.