Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective

October 5, 2019 to January 19, 2020

Ralph Steadman’s highly popular solo exhibition featured more than one hundred works displaying the visual legacy of one of the most influential British graphic artists of the last fifty years. Famous for his long collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson, Steadman long ago attained cult status and continues to influence artists from around the globe. A highlight of the show was a live Zoom video tour with Steadman in his studio in England, discussing his life, work, and ideas in an uncanny prelude to the many Zoom events that dominated life during the pandemic. The exhibition was curated by Anita O’Brien and Chris Miles and produced by The Ralph Steadman Collection with support from Flying Dog, United Therapeutics, and Audible.

Roger Shimomura: By Looking Back, We Look Forward February 8 to June 15, 2020

Roger Shimomura channels outrage and despair into provocative art, using a brightly colored Pop-Art style to depict a combination of exaggerated cultural stereotypes to interrogate popcultural icons, notions of race, self-portraiture, and current political affairs interpreted through his family’s World War II experience. Using dark humor to lampoon hypocrisy and promote social justice, many of his works explore the experience of “forever foreigners”—visual minorities perceived as outsiders—and the terrible toll such judgments can take during times of political strife. Curated by Anne Rose Kitagawa, this exhibition was drawn from the Collection of Jordan Schnitzer, augmented with loans from the artist, gallerists Sherry Leedy and Greg Kucera, and works from the permanent collection.