Luca Molnar: Worker Bees OCTOBER 10, 2025 - ON GOING A new mural will also be debuted by Art Pollination 2025 Bloomberg Philanthropies Artist Luca Molnar. Molnar creates compositions that layer historical photographs with decorative patterns – scrapbooking the past, research, and her identity.
Jesse Aaron: Spirit in the Wood Jesse J. Aaron released, through carving, the familiar faces of spirit, animal, and human forms from within the essential and life-giving material of wood. They once surrounded his suburban Gainesville home—as faces growing on living bark—and later as standalone sculptures inviting curious students, inquisitive curators, and interested collectors into his gallery.
Our Collection: Spirit of the Landscape Presenting paintings that showcase the stunning beauty and human bond with the natural environment. The exhibition highlights recent acquisitions of contemporary art alongside works by artists who led the Modern Art movement. From John Sloan to Steve Lotz and from Arthur Bowen Davies to Mira Lehr, this exhibition encourages viewers to reflect on how our ideas and connections to the landscape have
John D. Gerdes: Sacred Algorithm John D. Gerdes Kaleidoscope series explored perfect perspectives and pure geometries, where the creative vision of the kaleidoscope produced symmetrical, mirrored, and reflective shapes and patterns. These evoke highly symbolic traditions like Buddhist or Hindu Mandalas or Celtic knots encouraging viewers to contemplate their connections with technology, art, and spirituality.
Faith and Vision: Spirituality in Self-Taught Art From intuitive messages to peaceable kingdoms, the artists featured in this exhibition painted and sculpted otherworldly visions for all to witness, inspired by their respective faiths, practices, and heritages.
Our Orlando: Tasanee Durrett, Martha Jo Mahoney & Mado Smith For the fourth iteration of our Orlando exhibition, the museum presents excellence in art making by three Orlando artists, each with distinctive practices, a broad range of inspiration, and creative expression.
Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror (August 28, 2026 - February 28, 2027)On loan from the Art Bridges Foundation, Metal the Mirror is a captivating traveling exhibition showcasing nine of Isamu Noguchi's galvanized steel sculptures from 1982-1983. With their reflective surfaces and evolving patinas, these works delve into themes of duality inspired by Noguchi's personal experience navigating his life as a Japanese American.
Juan William Chavez: Art Pollination OCTOBER 10, 2025 - JANUARY 25, 2026The social practice of artist Juan William Chávez is rooted in his holistic view of aesthetics, ecology, ritual, craft, labor, activism, and his Peruvian heritage.
Our Collection: Women Artists, A Force in American Art JUNE 6, 2025 - JANUARY 25, 2026This exhibition presents over 100 years of painting in the United States by a broad range of professional women artists, highlighting innovative artists who defied traditional social and artistic expectations to succeed in making their lives as artists and supporters of the arts through diverse and evolving careers.
Pool Party: The Pool in American Art JUNE 6 - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025The pool symbolizes luxury and leisure in America, and it has been captivating artists since the 1950s with bright sunlight, vibrant colors, and modernist architecture.
The Original Influencers: Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, and Bruce Marsh JANUARY 31 - MAY 25, 2025 The exhibition examines the rich and vibrant legacy of Central Florida’s arts and higher education through contemplating the work of these three foundational figures – artists who have had a profound impact on the Central Florida art scene and have inspired generations of students.
Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism September 20, 2024 - January 12, 2025Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism is the first museum retrospective in over 20 years of Sally Michel's Modernist landscapes and figurations from the 1930s - 1990s, long overlooked in traditional Art Historical discourse.
Mark Messersmith: Long Summer May 31, 2024 – September 8, 2024Over the past four decades, Mark Messersmith has created densely packed, large-scale paintings of Florida’s untamed landscapes where black bears wade among lotuses, discarded bottles hang in trees, and herons devour their dinners under high the high contrast light of the sun and moon.
Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America May 31, 2024 – September 8, 2024In the early 1840’s after publishing the wildly successful Birds of America portfolio, John James Audubon set out on his second grand expedition, this time to record and draw the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Audubon along with his son, John Woodhouse Audubon, produced 150 folio drawings hand-printed and hand colored by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia.
Self-Taught Black Artists in the American South January 26, 2024 – May 19, 2024This exhibition presents the work of 13 Black self-taught artists from the American South. It highlights excellent examples from the Mennello Museum’s permanent collection alongside the 2023 acquisition of works from the Polk Museum of Art.
In Nature's Studio October 6, 2023 – January 15, 2024This rich exhibition features the bounty and beauty of the American landscape from the early nineteenth century through the twentieth century.
Anila Quayyum Agha: Flourishing Patterns June 23 - September 24, 2023Anila Quayyum Agha: Flourishing Patterns presents light installation, sculpture, and works on paper by Anila Quayyum Agha, a Pakistani-American multimedia artist whose work employs renewed interpretations of blossoming Islamic arabesque and geometric design to project flourishing forms in light and shadow into the viewer's space.
