Welcome to the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts
Hours:* Tuesday–Sunday, 11 AM‑5 PM
*open one hour prior to most shows through intermission
Upcoming Events
Chad Lawson
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
The Tempest
April 3–6, 2024
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Saturday, April 13, 2024
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Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
Current Exhibitions: Saturday, January 13–Sunday, March 31, 2024
Makoto Fujimura: Water Flames
Makoto Fujimura has earned an international reputation for his beautiful, deeply moving abstract paintings made using traditional Nihonga materials with delicate washes of natural pigments. Makoto Fujimura: Water Flames brings together a number of his major paintings of the last 20 years, focusing on the poetic paradox between the elements of water and fire, which symbolize, in Fujimura’s words, art’s power to “[turn] the flames of destruction into the flames of sanctification.”
Jeni Spota C: Encore!
In her thickly impastoed paintings, Jeni Spota C. explores her own Italian heritage and the power of religious imagery by obsessively reworking scenes from Giotto’s 14th-century monumental fresco The Last Judgment. Spota C. abstracts her figures and collapses the neat order of Giotto’s fresco, merging the zones of heaven and hell into chaos. Jeni Spota C: Encore! unites three bodies of work, putting the artist’s earliest and most recent works into conversation, alongside a series that references Spota C.’s great-uncle, a magician, to consider the relationship between painting and magic, myth, and illusion.