Delaware Art Shows- “Shadow Work” at Chris White Gallery in Wilmington

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Sep 112026
 

Jennifer Hintz Eggers, “Through the Night”, Oil on birch panel

RitaMarie Cimini, “After the Dream”, Oil on acrylic

Maia Palmer, “Splitting Headache”, Migraine Portrait Series, Charcoal and pastel on paper

Jennifer S. Rodgers, “Nearly every day PHQ-9 Depression” and “More than half the days (GAD-7 Anxiety)” acrylic paint, ink on canvas

Interactive work by Jennifer S. Rodgers– gallery visitors are encouraged to write down worries, fears or anxieties on the paper and place them in the box

Acrylic on wood paintings by Carly Maiorano

Tonight (9/11/26)  is the closing reception for Shadow Work, a group exhibition at Chris White gallery in downtown Wilmington. Curated by Jen Hintz Eggers and Rebecca Howell, nine local artists present work exploring what can be discovered through “shadow work“.

From the gallery:

Shadow Work invites impolite conversations. By shining a light on the hidden aspects of ourselves and our society, each artist examines their experience through honest dialog around parts rarely seen or discussed. From impeccably constructed portraits and florals to expressive large scale paintings and found object sculptures, these works offer a space for vulnerability by opening up the door to community.

Other artists included in the exhibition but not pictured: Regina Katz, Jane Quarterone, Rebecca Howell, and Samara Weaver.

Tonight is also Art Loop Wilmington, a monthly event where galleries and cultural spaces stay open late.

 

Throwback- Ohio Art Shows- Cynthia Daignault at Akron Art Museum

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Sep 032026
 

Cynthia Daignault, “Light Atlas”, 2014-2016, Oil on linen (detail)

Light Atlas, a painting series by Cynthia Daignault, was on view at Akron Art Museum in 2024.

From the museum:

In 2014, Cynthia Daignault began driving north from her home in Brooklyn, New York. She turned west in New England and south at the Pacific Northwest, and she kept going until she had traced the entire outer perimeter of the continental United States. Having calculated the necessary distance, the artist stopped about every twenty-seven miles to make a sketch so that she could record a total of 360 images, representing the full circle of her journey. After five months on the road, she returned to her studio and created the paintings of Light Atlas. In each picture, Daignault placed the horizon line at the center, helping to suggest a continuous narrative and a collective portrait of the country. Having intentionally set out in the spring, she aimed to capture a mood of optimism and rebirth.

This series is currently on view as an installation at Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, NY. The 360 landscape paintings, will be on view until November 1st. On Saturday, September 12th, you can create a landscape painting with her for the site’s Second Saturday Workshop, and on Sunday she will be discussing Light Atlas for their Sunday Salon lecture series.

Daignault’s recent series, based on Yosemite National Park‘s iconic Tunnel View, is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston until January 2027. For these paintings she used “the “mediated consciousness” of digital images, to meditate on our urgent and evolving relationship with the American landscape”.

For more about this series, this interview, from the museum’s website, provides more background on many of the conceptual ideas she is exploring with this work.

 

Installation view, Cynthia Daignault: Valley, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2026-27. Photo by Mel Taing (Image via the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston website)

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026)

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Aug 282026
 

Kusama- Infinity- Official Trailer

Yesterday it was announced that Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama passed away on August 14th, at the age of 97. Although she had a long career, she became very popular much later in life for her dot-covered sculptures and paintings, as well as her Infinity Mirror Rooms installations. Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) and  Longing for Eternity (2017), are currently on view at The Broad in Los Angeles.

Kusama: Infinity, directed by Heather Lenz, follows Kusama’s life from her childhood in the mountain town of Matsumoto, to years trying to build a career in New York in the 1960s, her struggles with mental illness, and later, years after her return to Japan, her tremendous career success. The film is a fascinating portrait of an artist who dedicated so much of her energy into making art.

Delaware Art Shows- “The People’s Gallery” at Delaware Art Museum

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Ceramic Art, Collage, Conceptual Art, Delaware, Digital Art, Drawing, Fiber Arts, Glasswork, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting / Painters, Photographers / Photography, Printmaking, Sculptors / Sculpture, Wilmington
Aug 282026
 

As part of their programming for the nation’s 250th birthday, Delaware Art Museum is showing the work of local artists in their current exhibition, The People’s Gallery. It is a non-juried exhibition which allowed artists at all levels to contribute work.

It’s a fantastic opportunity to see what this community of artists has created and to purchase local art. Check it out before it closes on 9/6/26.

Mary Heilmann (1940-2026)

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Aug 172026
 

“Surprise”, 2012, Oil on canvas. (Photo by Thomas Müller) Image courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Installation view of “Mary Heilmann: Long Line” 2025 at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, On wall: “Long Line, 2025”; “Monochrome Chairs”, 2015; “April Chairs”, 2025. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

“Mode O’Day”, 1991, Oil on canvas, Image courtesy of 303 Gallery

Artist Mary Heilmann passed away on Friday, at 86. Heilmann started her career working in sculpture, but in the early 1970s shifted to making the paintings she would become known for. The influence of sculpture never left entirely though. She returned to making ceramic pieces, which sometimes accompanied her paintings, and began designing her signature chairs, in the early 2000s.

For more about the artist, Art21 has a few videos on their site, including the one below in which she discusses her work, inspirations, and the importance of the titles she uses.

For a deeper dive into Heilmaann’s life and career, including her childhood and education in California, check out Matt Creed’s excellent 2023 documentary Waves, Roads, & Hallucinations.

Pennsylvania Art Shows- Sebastian Errazuriz at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Aug 132026
 

“Lightning Strike Lamp”, 2025

Top: “Piano Shelf”, 2014, Lacquered mahogony, steel ; Bottom: “Wave Cabinet”, Lacquered Baltic birch, steel, glass

“Occupy Chair”, 2012

“IMAGINE Neon”, 2025, Neon tubing

Detail from wall of AI generated drawings behind “IMAGINE Neon”

Mixing art, design, and politics, Sebastian Errazuriz‘s exhibition Double Take at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a lot of fun. On one side of the room a neon bolt of lightning repeatedly flashes against the wall, while on another neon letters alternate between “IMAGINE” and “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) illuminating AI-generated drawings based on his original sketches. There’s also uniquely designed furniture, lamps made using taxidermy chickens, chairs referencing the Occupy Movement, objects incorporating Greco-Roman statue head reproductions, and more, all encouraging visitors to think about nature, technology, and the world around them.

From the museum:

Sebastian Errazuriz (Chilean, born 1977) twists our typical expectations and experiences of using furniture, lighting, and everyday objects. Embracing humor and appropriation, his limited edition and one-of-a-kind pieces often have a subtext that goes beyond form or function, offering personal narrative, a political message, or cultural commentary. This mid-career survey presents over twenty years of a multi-hyphenate practice that gives design a conceptual, Surrealist slant.

Works featured in the exhibition span art, craft, design, and technology. His “kinetic” furniture, constructed from the early 2010s, is characterized by moveable parts – doors, drawers, and shelves that are repositionable, creating new configurations. Other works take nature as a source of inspiration or make new and surprising use of found objects, including vintage watches and taxidermy fowl. Also on display are furniture, mirrors, and other objects that the designer creates by scanning original Greco-Roman antiquities that are then digitally-manipulated and recast in poured marble. A newly commissioned fluorescent light explores Errazuriz’s fascination with, and apprehension about, the potential impact of Artificial General Intelligence on artists, designers, and culture more broadly.

The diverse works on view convey imagination and wit, while also bewildering those who encounter them. The pieces are meant to be lived with, but, at the same time, are provocations with an air of mystery around their function and meaning. Attesting to Errazuriz’s expansive definition of design, the works in this exhibition suggest alternate ways of seeing, thinking, and living.

The show is on view until 8/16/26.

 

Artist Birthdays- Jenny Holzer

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Jul 292026
 

Jenny Holzer was born today, July 29th, in 1950. Pictured in this post are some of her famous Truisms, when they were on view at Akron Art Museum.

Her latest exhibition, Wrong Answers, is currently at the Serralves Museum in Portugal, closing November 1st.

 

Delaware Art Shows- Emily Francisco at The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington

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Jul 172026
 

Old televisions and clock radios are given a second life in the interactive sculptures in Emily Francisco‘s exhibition, Alchemical Signal Flow at The Delaware Contemporary. The exhibition also includes videos and documentation of some of Francisco’s other projects, and a few cyanotype prints.

From the museum:

What is a signal? We often think of cell phone reception, or a message sent through a digital app. A signal means many things in this exhibition, it references the transfer of physical data and digital data (ones and zeroes) that happens within technology. A signal can also be social, like how you dress, what brands you buy, or what you throw away. Emily Francisco combines old and new technology to help us rethink how we live with new and changing technology. To many, the mechanics of a harpsichord (a keyboard instrument) and organ are as magical as an MP3 player. Francisco embraces that magic and makes alchemy of blending old and new, low and high tech.

Francisco uses cheap everyday technology and discarded, obsolete (or no longer produced) devices. By doing so, she disrupts signal flows from user to speaker. This action challenges our expectation of call-and-respond and challenges our sense of time. Someone once owed every piece of discarded tech. One could have even been yours. She asks us to think about what these personal objects mean to us at the end of the day. What do they mean to us?

Through her work, she brings together the memory, nostalgia, and aspiration these objects hold, attempting to give them new purpose.

This exhibition closes 8/2/26.

Pennsylvania Art Shows- “Spaces of Encounter” at Temple Contemporary in Philadelphia

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Jun 252026
 

Curry J. Hackett, “The Gilded Block (Porch)”

mk. “you are so much to me pt. 1.” 2022

A golden inflatable porch by artist Curry J. Hackett welcomes visitors from outside the entrance to Spaces of Encounter, the current exhibition at Temple Contemporary, Temple University’s art gallery. Inside the gallery, Rokh Research & Design Studio founder and PhD student Danicia Monét Malone’s public arts research combines with NYU MA candidate Alyse Tucker‘s art curation to present an interesting selection of artwork, installations, and infographics that explore public art and shared spaces.

From the press release:

… Spaces of Encounter explores public space across North and Latin America and the Caribbean through the lens of public art. The exhibition brings together research and artistic material from Albuquerque; Cartagena; and Indianapolis, examining how people interact with public artworks across different urban contexts. Visitors are invited to reflect on who is welcomed into shared spaces—and who is made to feel excluded.

At the center of the exhibition is a guiding question: What does public space ask the body to believe about safety, care and belonging?

“For Black residents navigating environments marked by surveillance, neglect or misrecognition, aesthetic conditions operate as cumulative exposures that influence how safety, care and civic participation are felt in the body,” says Malone.

Through documentation, archival material and sculptural elements, Spaces of Encounter considers how public art mediates lived experience and contributes to collective memory. One featured work includes preserved fragments of a dismantled Black Lives Matter street mural in Indianapolis, foregrounding the fragility and afterlife of public artworks. Even when removed or destroyed, such works persist through memory, documentation and community impact.

“We’re interested in the afterlife of public art—what remains when the physical object is gone,” says Tucker.

The exhibition is particularly resonant in Philadelphia, a city shaped by one of the nation’s most expansive public art and mural programs. As development continues to transform neighborhoods, Spaces of Encounter offers an opportunity to reflect on how public artworks are preserved, displaced or erased—and what those changes mean for communities.

“Our gallery commissioned Spaces of Encounter to demonstrate Tyler’s commitment to being a beacon for art, architecture and community imagination in North Philadelphia and beyond,” says Temple Contemporary’s Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta, PhD. “By blurring inside and outside, the interior versus exterior, it smartly knits together the intimate, culturally specific meanings with public moments of spectacle that anyone can enjoy.”

This exhibition closes 6/27/26.

Delaware Art Shows– Permanent Collection– Sonya Clark at Delaware Art Museum

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Jun 182026
 

Sonya Clark, “Whitewashed”, 2017, Sherwin-Williams house paint

Walking around the rooms of the Delaware Art Museum‘s contemporary collection you could almost miss Sonya Clark‘s Whitewashed. Painted onto one of the walls, her version of the U.S. flag uses only shades of white.

From the museum about the artist and the work:

Sonya Clark possesses the ability to deftly assemble works of art both beautiful in creation and weighted with content. Whitewashed is painted directly onto the gallery wall. Visually subtle, the work engages the viewer’s recollections of the United States flag. Whitewashed is made using three Sherwin-Williams house paint colors-Incredible White, Storyteller, and Natural Choice. The shades of white replace the red, white, and blue of the American symbol.

Clark has worked with the American flag, the Confederate flag, and the Confederate Flag of Truce throughout her career. In doing so, she addresses the physical makeup of these objects and the histories, experiences, and access these symbols uncover or veil.

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