EXCITING NEW EXHIBITION OPENINGS!

Concentrations 64: Ja’Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD

April 23 to November 5, 2023

Concentrations 64 spotlights the work of filmmaker, visual artist, and Dallas native Ja’Tovia Gary. Three works that relate to Gary’s forthcoming memoir film, featuring family archival footage, will make their debut in the show. This includes the largest object made by the artist to date: a monumental armillary sphere made in homage to the matriarchs in Gary’s family. These works join a neon sculpture and a multimedia installation that are representative of the artist’s critical investigation of the archive and her reclamation of historical symbols of violence and white supremacy with a gesture toward care and healing.

Backs in Fashion: Mangbetu Women’s Egbe

September 24, 2023 to August 3, 2025

Bold-patterned egbe (sing. negbe) are back aprons made of plantain leaves worn by aristocratic Mangbetu women on special occasions from the turn of the 20th century until around 1980. Thus attired, the women welcomed visitors to the magnificent Mangbetu kingdom in presentday Democratic Republic of the Congo. Backs in Fashion presents 16 back aprons, in different styles and patterns, along with period photographs. The exhibition also explains what motivated fashionable Mangbetu women to create the new fashion in the first place.

Concentrations 64: Ja'Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.

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Backs in Fashion: Mangbetu Women’s Egbe is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.

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Tiffany Chung: Rise Into the Atmosphere

August 6, 2023 to August 3, 2025

The sixth iteration of the Museum’s Concourse mural series will feature an installation by artist Tiffany Chung, who is recognized for her diverse conceptual work and research-driven process dealing with sociopolitical issues. Rise Into the Atmosphere is a multimedia collaboration between Tiffany Chung and 30 international musicians, including Syrians in exile, who drew from memories of home and the experience of being forcefully uprooted. This multisensory installation reminds us of the power of music and the visual arts to bring back beauty, humanity, and hope, expanding beyond today’s media-saturated images of “conflict zones.”

Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction

September 10, 2023 to January 28, 2024

Praised as the leading artist of his generation, Abraham Ángel (1905–1924) produced just 24 paintings before his death at the age of 19. A queer artist who came of age during a time of seismic social change in Mexico, he found belonging in the capital’s rich avant-garde artistic scene, befriending the leading cultural figures of his time. Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction will be the first survey of Ángel’s work in 25 years and the first to assemble all of his surviving works. Bringing Ángel’s vibrant paintings into focus, the exhibition reassesses the life, work, and legacy of this legendary artist.