Cowboy reexamines the popular mythologies surrounding the image and concept of the cowboy. Through the work of 28 artists, which includes Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and Latino perspectives, the exhibition explores a wide array of themes including perceptions of masculinity and gender, assumptions about cowboys’ relationship to land, and the lived experiences of contemporary cowboys.
Drawn from the Carter's collection, Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal highlights the artist’s prints produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1965 and a newly-acquired sculpture, Natural Form, created in Hunt’s signature direct-welded metal technique.
Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation presents the evolution of Tamayo’s artistic technique through his works on paper, experimenting with ways to add volume and texture to a traditionally two-dimensional medium.
Re/Framed gives visitors to the Carter a new way to look at the Carter’s collection. Several times a year, artwork will be rotated allowing guests to see the works through a different lens.
Jean Shin is the next contemporary artist to transform the Museum’s first floor sloping gallery with a new site-specific commission. For her installation at the Carter, Shin will create a textile-based portrait of the Museum, through clothing items donated by the Carter’s employees and shape these elements into a large-scale wall mural with immersive hanging elements that will activate the gallery walls and ceiling.
Beverly Pepper’s Curvae in Curvae is the fourth installation of the Carter’s outdoor sculpture initiative, a program launched in 2022 to activate the Museum’s grounds.
The Carter houses one of the great collections of American art, from historical landscapes captured on canvas to city streets seen through the lens of a camera. We’re regularly changing out these works, so each time you visit, you know you’ll encounter something you haven’t seen before.
