Past
Exhibitions
2011
The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection
July 22 - October 16, 2011
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
July 22 – October 16, 2011
Breaking Down Barriers: 300 Years of Women in Art
October 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Camera Works: Masters in Photography
October 28, 2011 - January 8, 2012
A Soldier's View of Civil War Charleston
April 8 - July 10, 2011
Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad
April 8 - July 10, 2011
Anna Heyward Taylor: World Traveler
January 14 - June 25, 2011
2010
Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection
April 30 - August 22, 2010
JoAnn Verburg: Interruptions
May 28 - August 22, 2010
Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University
December 17, 2010 - March 27, 2011
Lure of the Lowcountry
January 22 - April 18, 2010
Face Lift: The Power of Portraits
September 3 - December 5, 2010
J. Henry Fair: Industrial Scars
December 17, 2010 – March 27, 2011
Whistler's Travels
January 22 - May 16, 2010
Stacy Lynn Waddell: The Evidence of Things Unseen
September 3 - December 5, 2010
2009
Prop Master: An Installation by Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page
April 3 - July 19, 2009
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Jeff Whetstone: Post-Pleistocene
April 3 - July 19, 2009
Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum
July 31 - October 11, 2009
Brian Rutenberg: Tidesong
October 23, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
October 23, 2009 - January 10, 2010
2008
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
May 9 - August 3, 2008
The Future is on the Table
September 12 - November 2, 2008
Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats Along the Way: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder
March 22 - April 27, 2008
Seeking
March 1 - August 31, 2008
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
August 29 - November 30, 2008
Painters of American Life: The Eight
December 19, 2008 - March 22, 2009
The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection
December 19, 2008 - March 22, 2009
Printmaking
November 14, 2008 - August 16, 2009
2007
Rodin: In His Own Words, Selections from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
May 25, 2007 - August 12, 2007
Lorna Simpson
September 7 - December 2, 2007
William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961 – 2005
December 21, 2007 - March 16, 2008
Southern Masterpieces: Charleston before 1835
February 9, 2007 - April 29, 2007
Like Tears in Rain
May 4 - August 12, 2007
Now!
September 7 - December 2, 2007
"A Lonely Soul": The Art of Edward Jennings
April 27, 2007 - July 22, 2007
Otto Neumann: Modern Expressions
April 27, 2007 - July 22, 2007
The Charleston Renaissance: An Artistic Reawakening
August 3, 2007 - February 17, 2008
Hands On!
Ongoing Exhibition
Japonisme in Charleston
June 23, 2006 - August 1, 2007
America at Work: WPA Prints from the Gibbes Collection
August 25, 2006 - April 15, 2007
A Souvenir of Charleston: The Photographs of George W. Johnson
September 8, 2006 - April 15, 2007
Grandeur Saved: Photographs of the Aiken-Rhett House by Michael Eastman
January 12, 2007 - May 13, 2007
2006
Painters in Paradise: The Masterworks Bermuda Collection
May 12, 2006 - August 6, 2006
"All Served Up in India China": Chinese Porcelain in the Lowcountry, 1700 - 1860
March 11, 2006 - June 25, 2006
Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur
March 11, 2006 - June 25, 2006
Dressing Up/Dressing Down: The Art in Japanese Country Textiles
February 10, 2006 - June 18, 2006
The Flowering Amazon: Margaret Mee Paintings from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
January 13, 2006 - April 23, 2006
Ernest Hemingway and Walker Evans: Three Weeks in Cuba, 1933
December 23, 2005 - February 19, 2006
Leaving the Lowcountry: Charleston Renaissance Artists on the Road
December 16, 2005 - May 7, 2006
Whistler Etchings from the Vreede Collection
May 26, 2006 - August 27, 2006
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
October 6, 2006 - January 14, 2007
Babar's Museum of Art
September 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006
Wolf Kahn's Barns
July 16, 2006 - October 1, 2006
Romantic Landscapes: British Watercolors from the Gibbes Collection
July 7, 2006 - September 24, 2006
Edward Hopper in Charleston
May 26, 2006 - August 13, 2006
2005
Passion for Drawing: Poussin to CĂ©zanne, Works from the Prat Collection
October 8, 2005 - December 4, 2005
A Hard Day's Work
September 30, 2005 - January 29, 2006
100 Years at the Gibbes
September 9, 2005 - January 1, 2006
Carolina in Focus: Photographs from the Craft Collection
August 12, 2005 - December 4, 2005
Cold Winter Scenes for Hot Summer Days
June 17, 2005 - September 25, 2005
An American Impressionist: The Art and Life of Alson Skinner Clark
May 27, 2005 - August 7, 2005
Beyond Representation: Abstract Art in the South
May 6, 2005 - August 14, 2005
Thomas Hart Benton and Iconic Images of the South
April 15, 2005 - July 17, 2005
Unspoken Spaces: Inside and Outside the Boundaries of Class, Race and Space
February 5, 2005 - May 8, 2005
Encircling Spaces: An Installation by Janet Orselli
January 29, 2005 - May 8, 2005
Un dwelled: Photographs of Endangered Southern Architecture
January 21, 2005 - April 17, 2005
2004
Birds, Beasts and Bugs
December 17, 2004 - June 12, 2005
The Lowcountry Landscapes of Horace Day
November 19, 2004 - March 20, 2005
Panorama of the American Landscape
October 10, 2004 - January 9, 2005
Framing a Vision: Landscapes by Linda Fantuzzo and Manning Williams
October 10, 2004 - January 2, 2005
The Big Picture: Grand Paintings at the Gibbes
September 24, 2004 - January 2, 2005
Whistler and Japonisme: Etchings from the Vreede Collection
July 13, 2004 - December 5, 2004
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith: A Commitment to Conservation
July 13, 2004 - October 24, 2004
Rhythms of Life: The Art of Jonathan Green
May 28, 2004 - August 29, 2004
Myths and Metaphors: The Art of Leo Twiggs
May 18, 2004 - August 8, 2004
Places & Spaces: Landscape and Genre Scenes in the South
January 6, 2004 - August 29, 2004
Selections from In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places
January 15, 2004 - April 25, 2004
2003
Transcending Time and Place: Figure Groupings in Nature by Ando Hiroshige and Barbara Duvall
December 9, 2003 - June 27, 2004
In Love with the Lowcountry: Photographs by Tom Blagden, Jr. and Michael Johnson
November 18, 2003 - June 20, 2004
The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms
September 19, 2003 - December 14, 2003
Face Lift: Fresh Encounters with Portraiture at the Gibbes Museum of Art
August 19, 2003 - December 21, 2003
Works By Warhol: From the Cochran Collection
July 29, 2003 - December 7, 2003