Exhibitions Mennello Museum

Current Exhibitions

Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism

September 20, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Sally 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.

Upcoming Exhibitions

The Original Influencers: Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, & Bruce Marsh

January 24 - May 18, 2025

The Original Influencers: Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, & Bruce Marsh - Central Florida's Pioneering Professors. Showcasing the work of Floridaʼs original artistic influencers, this exhibit brings together three of the stateʼs seminal painters – Mernet Larsen, Steve Lotz, and Bruce Marsh– artists who have had a profound impact on the Central Florida art scene.

Past Exhibitions

Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America

May 31, 2024 – September 8, 2024

In 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.

Mark Messersmith: Long Summer

May 31, 2024 – September 8, 2024

Over 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.

Self-Taught Black Artists in the American South

January 26, 2024 – May 19, 2024

This 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, 2024

This 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, 2023

Anila 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.

Impression and Reality

February 25, 2023 – June 11, 2023

From the late 1800s through the 1920s, two important stylistic movements of early 20th century Art History coexisted – American Impressionism and Realism. These artists’ styles overlapped in time and a loose, impressionistic brushstroke, but transected in their subject matter.

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