Commissioned for the Carter, this large-scale, site-specific installation looks like frozen, Technicolor vapor. Created out of more than 80 miles of multicolored thread, Plexus no. 34 draws attention to the majestic architecture and natural light of the Museum’s Atrium.

This exhibition explores how the genre of western entertainments impacted American visual culture, from popular posters and calendars to fine art drawings, paintings, and sculpture.

In Our Own Words features a portfolio of vibrantly colored printed portraits by Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje, who collaborated in portraying present-day members of North Dakota Indian nations.

Commanding Space celebrates the work of five contemporary female sculptors who have driven the traditional medium into new directions and have breathed new life into old materials to create sculptures that connect the diverse themes of history, myth, and memory.

In this exhibition, Staller reflects on consumerism and waste in contemporary society through works that trace the life of everyday objects, meditating on what we choose to keep, what we throw away, and what happens to the objects we consume.

This exhibition presents the first major survey of the art of Dave Heath, one of the most original and respected photographers of the mid-20th century, juxtaposing loss and hope through works that strive for human connection.

This exhibition features seven key works that explore the artist’s interest in color, light, and the photographic process through photographs that defy the traditional photographic convention of capturing identifiable subjects.

In Her Image traces the development of female identity through portraiture, from young girlhood to middle age. Matar uses her photographs to show how the forces that shape female identity transcend cultural and geographic boundaries.

A New American Sculpture investigates the integral relationships between modernism, classicism, and popular imagery in the sculpture of these four immigrant artists, showing how they redefined sculpture’s expressive potential during this rapidly changing time.  

Trace features 10 fragmented marble tablets carved with phrases from a variety of founding documents and manifestos, uniting mottos intended for entirely different purposes to obscure their original meaning and call into question the objectivity of history.

Inspired by the coinciding exhibition Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, this exhibition of works on paper from the Carter’s collection explores the popular outdoor subjects that have permeated American culture and captivated American artists for centuries.

Archiving Eden displays photographs inspired by the work of international seed banks and ecologists to construct a visual meditation on botanical diversity and showcases the pure aesthetic pleasure of seeds and their transformations into plants.

Wild Spaces, Open Seasons brings together iconic works that explore outdoor subjects from the early 19th century to World War II, exploring American artists’ fascination with depicting a communion with nature that was receding in the face of industrialization.

Nature/Culture explores different facets of the dichotomy between nature and culture through photographs, reflecting on how nature counterpoints and enlivens our built environment and on what qualifies as “natural.”

Abstract Texas presents the work of a few of Texas’ trailblazing artists of the mid-20th century who drew inspiration from their surroundings and used abstract styles to portray characteristics of expressive truth—regardless of the conservative tastes of the time.