Current Exhibitions

Dates subject to change
Friday, March 22, 2013 - Saturday, July 13, 2013

Since 1980, the Mountain Lake Workshop has invited internationally-known artists to collaborate with fellow artists, students, and community residents of Southwest Virginia in the creation of experimental works of art.

Located in Giles County, Virginia, and supported in part by Virginia Tech, the Mountain Lake Workshop project has focused on facilitating community-based art collaborations that engage aspects of contemporary art, Appalachian culture, and social and technological trans-disciplinary planning sessions with guest artists have for decades brought together the art and sciences as a way to feed an unexpected and dynamic creative process, resulting in experimental...

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - Saturday, August 24, 2013

Her Stories is a both a retrospective look at the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, and an overview of some of the most compelling contemporary art being made today from the perspective of South Asian women’s identity. These 43 key artists explore their own cultural identities, and yet this intimate exhibition also examines how cultural expectations, history, and myths affect how we see ourselves in the world today.

This exhibition presents works by established and emerging artists from across the South Asian Diaspora, including the United States, South Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom, all incorporated into a singular room installation that includes...

Saturday, June 15, 2013 - Saturday, August 24, 2013

For more than 25 years Suzanne Styrk (b. 1953, Chicago IL) has recorded her experiences with nature in sketchbooks that are both journals of walks near her Bristol, Virginia home, and scientific documents of the flora and fauna she observes. These pages have served as foundations for hundreds of mixed-media works that blend the natural history of a place with Stryk's own direct experiences with each environment.

Stryk's first Taubman museum exhibition debuts a new series of assemblages that were inspired by Thomas Jefferson's book Notes on the State of Virginia (1781). Like Jefferson's detailed account in both the places Jefferson described as well as the five...

Saturday, June 15, 2013 - Saturday, August 31, 2013

Jason Salavon is on the forefront of new media art, and has been for over two decades. With a background in computer programming and software design, he employs the language of digital prints, video, painting, and sculpture to explore scientific systems and technology, as well as aesthetics and art history - all using software of his own design as an image-generating tool.

Salavon's Taubman project, A Seamlessness Between Things (traveling straight from its debut in New York), consists of 10 real-time video projections of synthesized data. This interactive room-sized work takes input from masses of public, communally generated information from the Internet and...

Saturday, June 15, 2013 - Saturday, August 31, 2013

For the last two decades, a number of leading-edge artists have pursued figurative work as a way to explore alter egos - ambiguous imaginary selves that express alternate personalities, drives, fears, and desires. Often placed in surreal or magical narratives, these "others" are rendered in hybrid styles that in part are informed by the figural traditions of folk artists, a strategy that uses the authentic or "real" to heighten the fantastic scenarios.

This exhibition features paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by four contemporary artists from across the country who interpret the notion of projected selves in varying ways.

Over the last 10 years, John...