94:. NEHMA was founded in 1982 with the ceramic collection of philanthropist and namesake Nora Eccles Harrison. The museum has since expanded to include over 5,500 objects focused on modernist and contemporary works created in the western region of the United States. The core of the collection explores certain key art historical movements including Beat, Los Angeles Post-Surrealism, Santa Fe Transcendentalism, and Bay Area Abstract Expressionism. The museum also collects and exhibits contemporary works that function as glimpses of the thriving art scenes found in many cities in the Western United States. Additionally, the museum serves as the recipient of the Vogel Collection for the state of Utah.
112:. These 50 works of art were part of a national gifts program entitled "The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States.â This program has distributed 2,500 works of art from the Vogel's personal collection of over 4,000 pieces of modern and contemporary art, with 50 works going to one selected art institution in each of the 50 states.
141:(January 16, 2012 â June 11, 2012) With 27 paintings and drawings on display, this exhibition shows how Starrett's works, "...vibrate with such cool passion, such fiery ice, that they seem at once both hard products of a systematic rationality, of an almost mechanical design, and works of extraordinary emotional resonance." â Patrick E. White.
181:(November 2007 â May 3, 2008) This exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection focused on painters working in 1930s New Mexico known as the Transcendental Painting Group. The group established themselves as artists who strove to define their art beyond the traditions of landscape, still life, and figurative imagery.
173:(September 2005 â July 2008) The exhibit consisted of selected paintings and sculptures from the museum's permanent collection to provide a glimpse into simultaneous revolutions in art and music in the 20th century. Viewers experienced art with the added enhancement of music to deepen understanding.
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133:(January 22 â May 4, 2013) This exhibit was the result of student research, collaboration, and discovery in an experimental art history course on Conceptual Art. It included artwork by a variety of conceptual artists creating art as a primary outlet for their ideas.
157:(August 31, 2010 â May 9, 2011) This exhibition included socially engaged artists (the Harrisons and Ant Farm) who seek out and propose radical concepts using unusual materials to create innovation to reduce the impact of humans and/or preserve natural environments.
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149:(June 14, 2011 â July 28, 2012) This exhibition explored the intersection of comics and art with specific attention to themes and stylistic forms that have crossed over from the genre of comics into the world of visual art.
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